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As Lord Krishna and Lord Rama were incanations of Lord Vishnu, the Aditya ("Solar Deity") so too is Shri Buddha an incarnation of Shri Vishnu (too Hindus) as he too was born into the Sakya, Suryavamsha ("Solar heritage") caste. Outside of India He is worshipped by many as the Mahavairochana ("Great Sun Buddha.") Legend has it that He witnesses the "wheel of life" in the sun when He awoke from sleep. This wheel in Hinduism is the "Dharam Chakra" or "Wheel of Law" and has been used since the Vedic Indus Valley civilization and is today on the flag of India. Buddhists have also used the Swastika, also known as "Wheel of Law" or "Wheel of Life" and yet another Hindu symbol. It is usually association with Lord Ganesh and another Aditya, Lord Surya. In most depictions of the Buddha, He is depicted as having the sun behind His head. The Buddha achieved enlightenment when meditating under a fig tree, the tree that represents Lord Vishnu. Krishna (IAST , the Sanskrit for dark or black) (see below), is according to common Hindu tradition the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ...
This article is about a Hindu incarnation of God (i. ...
Who dare interfer in my wrk# In Hinduism, the Adityas are a group of solar deities, sons of Aditi and Kasyapa. ...
A stone image of the Buddha. ...
For other uses of the name Vishnu, see Vishnu (disambiguation). ...
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Hinduism (Sanskrit - SanÄtana (eternal) Dharma also known as Vaidika (Vedic) Dharma) is a religion that orginated from the Indian subcontinent. ...
The Dharmacakra (Sanskrit) or Dhammacakka (PÄli), Tibetan , Chinese fălún 法轮, Wheel of Dharma is an auspicious Buddhist symbol representing a Buddhas teaching of the path to enlightenment. ...
In the dharmic religions (Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism), the wheel of life or dharmachakra (Sanskrit धरà¥à¤®à¤šà¤•à¥à¤°; Tibetan chos kyi khor lo; see also the Names section below) is a mandala or symbolic representation of samsara, the continuous cycle of birth, life, death. ...
Buddha's Mission
He called His path the "Eight-Fold Path," which is the same path Lord Krishna advised warrior Arjuna to follow to calm himself and fight for righteousness; the Astanga Yoga. Popular practices in the Astanga Yoga include Mudras, hand-gestures. Lord Buddha and Buddhist saints are almost always seen in these. Lord Buddha called the Astanga Yoga, "Arya Marga" ("Arya Path"). The term ashtanga means eight limbs. ...
A statue of Gautama Buddha showing a dharmacakra mudra In Hinduism, a mudra (Sanskrit, literally seal; å°ç›¸ inzÅ in Japanese) is a symbolic gesture made with the hand or fingers. ...
Then it is odd that a Hindu scripture claims Lord Buddha's mission was to "mislead" the "demons." Humans were indeed Asuric in the age the Buddha entered into, believed in Atheism, sacrificed animals only for the sake of sacrificing and did not follow principles. Lord Buddha took the Sanyass and wore the saffron robe of the Brahmanas. Early Buddhism had used the same saffron triangular (Bhagwa Dhwaj) flag which is hanged on Hindu temples. The Sanskrit term "Nirvana" was nothing new at the time of Buddha, as Hindu scriptures concentrated on this principle. Parinirvana, in Hinduism is known as Mahasamadhi. Although in modern-day terms, Buddhism is different from Hinduism, in which the Nirvana is Brahma-Nirvana. Buddhists today argue whether the Buddha has eternally remained a Buddha, come down as humans only to show humans that this eternal bliss is achievable by anyone. This form of Buddha in Buddhism is known as Dharmakaya Buddha. It was Buddha who is remembered for saying, "You are a Buddha, I am the Buddha." This article is about a Buddhist philosophy concept. ...
In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit -- Pali: Parinibbana -- Chinese: 般涅槃; Pinyin: bŠniè pán) is the final nirvana, traditionally understood to be within reach only upon the death of someone who attained complete enlightenment. ...
This article or section should include material from Samadhi meditation Samadhi, or concentration of the mind, is the second of the three parts of the Buddhas teaching, namely Sila (morality), Samadhi (concentration), and Panna (insight/wisdom). ...
Arya Dharma Apart from all this He referred His practice as the Arya Dharma (a variant of modern-day term Hinduism) and called Himself an Arya (in today's terms, "Hindu") , an Acharya ("Arya spiritual master") and organized the Sangha, which He originally called "Arya Sangha." He like Lord Krishna too fought against caste hegemony and said anyone who wanted to could become a Brahmana as He has done. (This principle in Hinduism is known as Sva-Dharma.) He argued that the Arya Dharma should not have the Vedas centered as the authority on religion and Hinduism should not advocate animal sacrifice. Shortly after, religious leaders abondoned the authority of the Vedas at the center of Hinduism and even stopped animal sacrifices.
Was Buddha an Atheist? Buddha in some Hindu scriptures is even called a "Nastik", meaning that He does not follow the Vedic path. However, it was the most well-known Buddhist schlor Rahula Vipola, who wrote that the Buddha was trying to shed the true purpose of the Vedas. He is often mistaken with Mahavira, a Jina of Jainism. After all, it it believed by many that Shri Mahavira was atheistic and did not believe in the spirit soul and rather, advocated the "Ajiva." However, Jains of Northern India are against the belief that Lord Mahavira was an Atheist. So then this means that if Jain diciplies can be divided over the topic of whether their leader was an Atheist or not then this argument too can be included within modern-day Buddhism. It is argued that if the Buddha believed in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy, how could He be an Atheist? The Buddha's goal was to escape the illusions of this world.
It is comical to many Hindu researchers that even after seeming a perfect Hindu, besides being named "Gotama" ("Best of the cows") that He is viewed as a Atheist ordinary human being.
Brahman in Earliest Buddhism Main article: Brahman It has been asserted by current secular Buddhism, that Buddhism knows only of the gods (Brahma) and nothing of the Godhead/Absolute/Agathon Brahman. In actuality there can be doubt that in the grammatically ambiguous expression Brahmabhu’to (attano) which describes the condition of those who are wholly liberated, that it is Brahman (the Absolute) and not Brahma (deva, or mere god) that is in the text and must be read; for it is by Brahman that one who is “wholly awake” has ”become.” Brahm (बà¥à¤°à¤¹à¥à¤® in devanagari script) in the Vedantic (and subsequently Yogic) forms of Hinduism, is the signifying name given to the concept of the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all being in this universe. ...
The highest appellation in Buddhist Nikayan sutra is “Brahambhutena attano” [MN 1.341] “The Soul is having become Brahman”; absolutely equivalent to ‘Tat tvam asi’ (That/Brahman, thou art). For the Buddha himself is = Brahmabhu’to (Become That, Brahman).
For (1) the comparatively limited knowledge of a Brahma is repeatedly emphasized, and (2) Brahmas are accordingly the Buddhas pupils, not he theirs [ S 1.141-145; Mil 75-76], (3) The Buddha had already been in previous births a Brahma (god) and a Mahabrahma [AN 4.88] hence it is meaningless and absurd in the equation to say Brahmabhu’to=Buddho [AN 5.22; DN 3.84; It 57 etc.], to assume that Brahman= Brahma (god) and that (4) the Buddha is explicitly “much more than a Mahabrahma" [DhA 2.60].
[DN 3.84] "The Tathagata means 'the body of Brahman', 'become Brahman'." (this passage also proves [from earlier context] that Brahma (god/s) is utterly diffferent than the word Brahman).
[DN 1.249] “ I teach the way to the union with Brahman, I know the way to the supreme union with Brahman, and the path and means leading to Brahman, whereby the world of Brahman may be gained.”
[DN 1.248] ”all the peoples say that Gotama is the supreme teacher of the way leading to the Union with Brahman!”
[3.646 Pat-Att.] “To have become Brahman [is the meaning of] Brahmabhuto.”
[Atthakanipata-Att. 5.72] “To become Brahman is to become highest Svabhava (Self-nature).”
[It 57] “Become-Brahman is the meaning of Tathagata.”
[SN 3.83] “Without taints, it meant ‘Become-Brahman’.”
[SN 5.5] “The Aryan Eightfold Path is the designation for Brahmayana (path to Brahman).”
[MN 1.341] “The Soul is having become Brahman.”
[SN 4.117] "Found the ancient path leading to Brahman."
Buddha as God Almighty
"In this world with its devas, Maras, & Brahmas, its generations complete with contemplatives & priests, princes & men, the Tathagata is the unconquered conqueror, all-seeing, the wielder of power. Thus he is called the Tathagata."
Deva worship in Buddhism Buddhism worships many deities of Hinduism, even deitie that Hindus themselves no longer worship, including Lord Indra. In Nepal, both Buddhists and Hindus gather from the Indra Vajra festival dedicated to Lord Indra. Lord Indra is worshipped by the Chinese, Korean and Japanese as Lord Taishakuten while Lord Ganesha is worshipped as Lord Shoten. In "Ganesh, studies of an Asian God", edited by Robert L. BROWN, State University of New York Press, 1992, page 241-242, he wrote that in the Tibetan Ka'gyur traditionm, it is said that the Buddha had taught the "Ganapati Hridaya Mantra" (or "Aryaganapatimantra") to disciple Ananda. Lord Shiva is worshipped as Lord Shiba. Each year, many Shiva devotees from Japan come to eastern India on a pilgrimage. Ananda(Ch:阿難) was one of many principal disciples of the Buddha, a devout attendant and was renowned as the Ananda was the first cousin of the Buddha, and was devotedly attached to him. ...
"Scriptural Quotes" "Furthermore, you should recollect the devas: 'There are the devas of the Four Great Kings, the devas of the Thirty-three, the devas of the Hours, the Contented Devas, the devas who delight in creation, the devas who have power over the creations of others, the devas of Brahma's retinue, the devas beyond them. Whatever conviction they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there, the same sort of conviction is present in me as well. Whatever virtue they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there, the same sort of virtue is present in me as well. Whatever learning they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there, the same sort of learning is present in me as well. Whatever generosity they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there, the same sort of generosity is present in me as well. Whatever discernment they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there, the same sort of discernment is present in me as well.' At any time when a disciple of the noble ones is recollecting the conviction, virtue, learning, generosity, and discernment found both in himself and the devas, his mind is not overcome with passion, not overcome with aversion, not overcome with delusion. His mind heads straight, based on the [qualities of the] devas. And when the mind is headed straight, the disciple of the noble ones gains a sense of the goal, gains a sense of the Dhamma, gains joy connected with the Dhamma. In one who is joyful, rapture arises. In one who is rapturous, the body grows calm. One whose body is calmed experiences ease. In one at ease, the mind becomes concentrated."
"Of one who does this, Mahanama, it is said: 'Among those who are out of tune, the disciple of the noble ones dwells in tune; among those who are malicious, he dwells without malice; having attained the stream of Dhamma, he develops the recollection of the devas."
[196. Dh.] "Feeders of joy we shall be like the radiant Gods"
Vegetarian Practices in Buddhism Main article: Vegetarianism in Buddhism The first lay precept in Buddhism is usually translated as I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures. ...
Many Buddhists, especially in East Asia, believe that Buddhism teaches vegetarianism. While Buddhist theory tends to lump killing animals together with killing people (and avoids the conclusion that killing can sometimes be ethical, e.g. defense of others), as a practical matter most Buddhists do eat meat. In Theravada countries, monks must accept whatever food is offered them. (Buddha himself seems to have died from eating rancid pork.) Vegetarian Tibetans are rare indeed (and not only for lack of vegetables in Tibet, since Tibetan exile monks in India actually consume more meat). The Dalai Lama once engaged in an amusing ethical discussion with Theravadan Buddhists, who believed that as long as one was determined to eat meat, seafood was preferable to red meat. The Dalai Lama responded that one bowl of shrimp would kill multitudes of sentient beings, but one sheep or cow would feed many people!
The first lay precept in Buddhism is usually translated as "I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures." Many see this as implying that Buddhists should not eat the meat of animals. However, this is not necessarily the case. There is a divergence of views within Buddhism on the need for vegetarianism, with the majority of schools of Buddhism rejecting such a claimed need and with most Buddhists in fact eating meat. A minority of Mahayana Buddhists, however, strongly oppose meat-eating on certain scriptural grounds.
In the Pali version of the Tripitaka, there are number of occasions in which the Buddha ate meat as well as recommending certain types of meat as a cure for medical conditions. On one occasion, a general sent a servant to purchase meat specifically to feed the Buddha. The Buddha declared that
meat should not be eaten under three circumstances: when it is seen or heard or suspected (that a living being has been purposely slaughtered for the eater); these, Jivaka, are the three circumstances in which meat should not be eaten, Jivaka! I declare there are three circumstances in which meat can be eaten: when it is not seen or heard or suspected (that a living being has been purposely slaughtered for the eater); Jivaka, I say these are the three circumstances in which meat can be eaten.
-- Jivaka Sutta The Buddha, on one particular occasion, specifically refused suggestions by a monk to institute vegetarianism in Sangha. According to Kassapa Buddha (a previous Buddha of legend not Shakyamuni Buddha) "[t]aking life, beating, wounding, binding, stealing, lying, deceiving, worthless knowledge, adultery; this is stench. Not the eating of meat." (Amagandha Sutta). There were, however, rules prohibiting consumption of 10 types of meat. Those are humans, elephants, horses, dogs, snakes, lions, tigers, leopards, bears and hyenas because these animals can be provoked by the smell of the flesh of their own kind.
Theravada commentaries explain the Buddha was making distinction between direct destruction of life and eating of already dead meat. Moreover, they point out that any act of consumption would involve proxy killing, including the farming of crops, so the idea that meat eating amounted to proxy killing while eating vegetables does not is ignorance. For this reason, they discourage gluttony or any other act of craving which lead to over consumption. However, some Therevadan monks suggest that it is possible to make some case for vegetarianism starting from brahmavihara. Interestingly, that is how Mahayana Buddhism makes the case for vegetarianism. BrahmaviharÄ (Pali and Sanskrit) can be translated as Sublime Attitudes or Abodes of God. ...
There is no mention of Buddha endorsing or repudiating vegetarianism in surviving portions of Sanskrit Tripitaka. Moreover, no major Mahayana sutras explicitly declare that meat eating violates the first precept. However, certain Mahayana sutras vigorously and unreservedly denounce the eating of meat, mainly on the ground that such an act violates the bodhisattva's compassion. The sutras which inveigh against meat-eating include the Nirvana Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra, the Brahmajala Sutra, the Angulimaliya Sutra, the Mahamegha Sutra, and the Lankavatara Sutra, as well as the Buddha's comments on the negative karmic effects of meat consumption in the Karma Sutra. In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which presents itself as the final elucidatory and definitive Mahayana teachings of the Buddha on the very eve of his death, the Buddha states that "the eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness", adding that all and every kind of meat and fish consumption (even of animals found already dead) is prohibited by him. He specifically rejects the idea that monks who go out begging and receive meat from a donor should eat it: ". . . it should be rejected . . . I say that even meat, fish, game, dried hooves and scraps of meat left over by others constitutes an infraction . . . I teach the harm arising from meat-eating." The Buddha also predicts in this sutra that later monks will "hold spurious writings to be the authentic Dharma" and will concoct their own sutras and lyingly claim that the Buddha allows the eating of meat, whereas in fact he says he does not. A long passage in the Lankavatara Sutra shows the Buddha speaking out very forcefully against meat consumption and unequivocally in favor of vegetarianism, since the eating of the flesh of fellow sentient beings is said by him to be incompatible with the compassion that a Bodhisattva should strive to cultivate. In several other Mahayana scriptures, too (e.g., the Mahayana jatakas), the Buddha is seen clearly to indicate that meat-eating is undesirable and karmically unwholesome.
Quotes Koenraad Elst[1] "The Buddha never said: 'Down with the Brahmins! Break Brahmin tyranny!' On the contrary, he taught about how to be a true Brahmin, as against having the outer attributes but not the inner qualities of the Brahmin. Many of his disciples were Brahmins. The myth of Buddhist social revolution against Brahmin tyranny can be disproven on many counts with the Buddha’s own words."
Dalai Lama "I am very happy to be here and I am looking forward to bringining the Buddhists and Hindus together because I consider them as twins.... This place is really impressiveand the whole place is really spiritual." (with the VHP at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad) "When I say that Buddhism is part of Hinduism, certain people criticize me. But if I were to say that Hinduism and Buddhism are totally different, it would not be in conformity with truth."[2] The 2001 Kumbh Mela. ...
Mahatma Gandhi [3] Its every essential characteristic was translated into action in India much more perhaps than in countries that “nominally profess Buddhism.” (b) The Buddha had taught Hinduism “not to take but to give life. True sacrifice was not of others but of self.” He made the Vedas a living word but “the priests clung to the letter and missed the spirit.” (c) The reformation that the Buddha attempted has not yet had a fair trial. The Buddha taught us to “trust in the final triumph of truth and love.” He “lived what he taught.” “Each one of us should see how much of the Buddha’s message of mercy and piety we have translated into our lives.” (d) The Buddha was not an atheist. Buddhism teaches humility and the masses approach God in all humility.
See also The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Budhism also known as just the The Religion of India is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist in the early twentieth century. ...
Brahm (बà¥à¤°à¤¹à¥à¤® in devanagari script) in the Vedantic (and subsequently Yogic) forms of Hinduism, is the signifying name given to the concept of the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all being in this universe. ...
Buddhism is generally regarded as a nontheistic religion. ...
Buddha-nature (originally in Sanskrit, Buddha-dhatu - Buddha Element, Buddha-Principle) is a doctrine important for many schools of Mahayana Buddhism. ...
For practicing Buddhists, references to dharma or dhamma in the singular, particularly as the Dharma, is used to mean the teachings of the Buddha, and is sometimes referred to as the Buddha-Dharma. ...
The first lay precept in Buddhism is usually translated as I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures. ...
BrahmaviharÄ (Pali and Sanskrit) can be translated as Sublime Attitudes or Abodes of God. ...
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