Buddhist
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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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| 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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| 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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| Ornamental door knob Tibet |
Ornamental door knob Tibet |
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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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| 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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| Stupa at Amaravati |
Carving in a cave monastery showing a Stupa Amaravati |
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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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| 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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| 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 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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| 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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| Young Buddhist |
Youngest learnings the way of Buddhu |