Buddhist
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| Young Buddhist |
Youngest learnings the way of Buddhu |
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| Unification Buddha |
The Buddha is the largest seated bronze Buddha statue in the world, at 14.6m high, excluding the halo, lightning rod and pedestal. |
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| The Venerable Piyadassi Mahathera from Sri Lanka during his visit to South Africa in May 1982 |
Piyadassi Maha Thera is best known as a great preacher of the Dhamma both in Sinhala and in English and it was in this field that his popularity was foremost. |
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| The Site where Buddha was born |
Lumbinī is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. |
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| The fourth Noble Truth |
The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. |
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| Stupa at Borobudur 8th Century AD |
Barabudur is a 7th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. |
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| Stupa at Amaravati |
Carving in a cave monastery showing a Stupa Amaravati |
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| Spring Ikeban Buddhist art form of flower arranging |
Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging. ... have since become more secular, displayed as art forms in people's homes. ... which was an evolution of early Buddhist floral decoration where flowers were used to ... |
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| Small bronze statue of sitting Buddha, |
The Medicine Buddha sits peacefully with his left hand resting in his lap in a pose of mediation with a small alms bowl in it. His right hand holds a ... |
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| Ornamental door knob Tibet |
Ornamental door knob Tibet |
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| Monk meditating in the court yard of a Zen monastery Japan |
Buddhist monasteries have been part of the Japanese cultural landscape ever since |
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| Karla - Plan of Chaitya Cave |
The Karla cave complex is built into a rocky hillside around 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Pune, with large windows cut into the rock to light the cave interiors.The caves are among a large numbers of similar caves excavated in the Sahyadri Hills in the early 1st millennium CE. |
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| Interior of an Ajanta Cave Monastery |
Ajanta consists of thirty caves, each dedicated to the life of the Buddha. ... All of the caves at Ajanta fall into the category of Vihara (monasteries with residence ... |
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| Interior of a rock cut assembly hall Bhaja Western India 2nd century BC |
Bhaja Caves is a group of 22 rock-cut caves dating back to the 2nd century BC located in the city of Pune, India. |
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| Head of the Buddha at Borobudur Java 8th century |
The world's largest Buddhist monument draws pilgrims from around Southeast Asia to a remote hilltop in central Java. ... Borobudur was constructed in the eight and ninth centuries during the golden era of ... |
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| Head of the Buddha Amaravati India 2nd century AD |
Head of the Buddha Amaravati India 2nd century AD |
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| Gautama being confronted by evil forces Gandera |
The Buddha was simply a human being and he claimed no inspiration from any God or ... He encountered an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a religious ascetic. ... The historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) is also known as Shakyamuni. ... |
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| Facade of a rock ct assembly hall Bhaja Western India 2nd Century BC |
The chaitya at Bhaja Caves is perhaps the earliest surviving chaitya hall, constructed in the second century BCE. It consists of an apsidal hall with stupa. The columns slope inwards in the imitation of wooden columns that would have been structurally necessary to keep a roof up. |
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| Exterior of a cave monastery Ajanta in India 4th century |
The caves at Ajanta date from the 2nd century B.C.E. to 650 C.E and were cut into the ... Discovered by chance in 1819 by British soldiers on a hunt, the Ajanta Caves have become an icon of ancient Indian art, and have influenced ... |
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| Dhamek Stupa in Deerpark at Sarnath near Banares Varanasi where the Buddha gave his first sermon 16th Century |
The Dhamek Stupa is said to mark the spot where the Buddha gave the first sermon to his first five disciples, led by Kaundinya, after attaining enlightenment,"revealing his Eightfold Path leading to nirvana". |