Buddha’s early life
Once, There was a prince Siddhartha in the kingdom of Magadha in northern India. The prince was predicted to become either a ruler of the world or the greatest saint in human history. The father king wants his son to follow in his footstep. So he thought he would let his son experience all the youth and beauty of this world. That is why he removed all the old and sick from the palace and filled the young people.
But the king could not defeat the reality of nature, and the prince found the truth of suffering. He asks his father about his curiosity about seeing the outside world. The king could not stop his son. He asks all the old sick and dying to hide from the parade’s path in which the prince would travel.
While he was celebrating and waving at his folks, the prince found an old smiling face. He was surprised on seeing something the old look for the first time in his life. So he jumped out of the carriage and ran after the older men. This chase brought him to the more impoverished section of the town where death old and sick are every way. When he asked his master, Chamberlain, he was told it would happen to all and no one escape from it. Then he saw a monk. His Chamberlain told him to the has renounced worldly life, and its the path in search of liberation.
Buddha, Path to Enlightenment
After some night from finding out the truth, Buddha gave up his luxuries of life and decided to renounce worldly life. Siddhartha ran out of the palace in the night when everyone was asleep. He then cuts his hair and decides to quit this world exists and pursue the path of liberation. He went and studied from all the well-learned teachers and scholars of the time, but he could not find the answer, The Sachi Ananda (the purest happiness). Then he decides to find it out by himself and meditate for over six years by eating only one grain per day and drinking raindrops that might fall on him.
After six years, he hears a voice from a passing boat; to the ship. A musician was telling his student, “if he tightens the string too much, it will snap. Indeed, he found the great truth in these words and realized for all these years. He had been following the wrong path.
He went out to the river, had a sip of water and took a bath. A goat herder, she gave him a bowl of rice cooked in goat’s milk. Then he said to himself, if he is to achieve enlightenment, this bowl will flow upstream, and it did. Meanwhile, his students thought the teacher had disobeyed the belief and committed sinful deeds. There left him to another place to meditate. He told them that “the path to enlightenment is in a middle way, it is a line between all opposite extreme” but their left. The middle way is the great truth he has found, the path he will teach to the world.
Encounter with Mara
After taking a meal and bath, Siddhartha sits and meditate at an unwinking gaze. And then five girls appear. These look like innocent village girls, but there were the five daughters of Mara, the lord of darkness. They were the spirits of crit, greed, fear, ignorant and desire. Mara has sent them to tempt Siddhartha away from his search. He tries to lure the Siddhartha most cleverly by disguising the temptation of living in the purest form, but Siddhartha was looking beyond the present. Mara gets in the rage and tries to disturb Siddhartha from his meditation with his magical power. He tries to bring thousands of evil forces to kill him. When there are shoot arrows at him, it becomes the flower when it touches his body. Mara has been defeated, Yet in fact, he attracts again.
The Enlightenment
Mara appeared in front of Buddha and said,” you, who go where no one else will dare, will you be my guardian”, and Buddha said, “architect, finally, I have met you. You will not build your house again”. Mara said, “but I am your house, and you live in me.” Buddha said,” oh lord of my ego, you are a pure illusion, You do not exist.” He pointed touch his hand to the earth and said, “the Earth is my witness,” and Mara vanishes. Thus, Siddhartha won the battle against the army of evils, just with the force of his love and the great compassion he had found.
He has created the great claim the proceeds attachment from human emotions. He had reached beyond himself. Buddha was beyond joy or pain, separated from judgment. He could remember all his previous births. He can see beyond the universe. Siddhartha has seen the ultimate reality of all things. He had understood that every moment in the world is the effect provoked by the course. He knows there is no salvation without compassion for every other being. From that moment on, Siddhartha was called the Buddha, the awakened one.
The enlightenment in the Tibetan dictionary means the state of being of someone where they renounce all the negativity and accumulate all the wisdom.
After enlightenment
After achieving enlightenment, Buddha spends some weeks in peace around where he has to accomplish the culture. For the first week, sit beneath the Bodhi tree under which Buddha got enlightenment. For the second week. He kept standing and staring uninterrupted from the spot, which the Animeshlocha Stupa marks. This stupa is located at the end of the outer circumambulation of the temple at the northeast. Buddha walks back and forth in space between Animeshlocha Stupa and the Bodhi tree for the third week. Where ever Buddha took Step, the lotus flower spring out. The occurrence is known as jewel walk.
After seven weeks in the current Mahabodhi temple premise. Buddha has left for the Deer Park in Sarnath Varanasi. Where his students are meditating on the wrong path. He would travel extensively in the Indo-Gangetic plan to teach from that time to the next forty-five years.
here are some of the most famous Buddha statues in this world
- Jo Shakya Muni in Jokhang temple in Lhasa.
- Jo Mekyo Dorjee on Ramoche Temple in Lhasa
- Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan
- Main Buddha statue at Mahayana temple in Bodhgaya, India
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