Tuesday, March 22, 2011

gautam buddha id card

buddha vedio

eti hasik devdaha


sunwal 7 tagauli taal gutam buddha

lumbini temple

Lumbini
The birthplace of loard Buddha , world heritage site , Nepal


INTRODUCTION :
Situated in the foothills of the siwalik range in the district of rupandehi , lumbini , the birthplace of lord Buddha is the first and foremost site of pilgrimage . Buddhist literature mention that the newly born child took seven steps and uttered an epoch making message to the suffering humanity. The beautiful sal grove of lumbini garden was renowned for it's beauty of shady queen of sakya king suddhodana of kapilvastu , on the way to her maternal hometown devadaha, was passing through the lumbini garden . it was the vaisakha poornima ( full moon day ) of 623 BC. While the queen was walking to the garden , took bath in the puskarini. After bath she preceded towards the north , felt labour pain and took support of a brach of a tree and she gave birth to the holy prince .
FOR LUMBINI THE BUDDHA SAID :
“ananda , this (lumbini) place is where the tathagata was born , this is a place , which should be visited and seen by a person of devotion and which would cause awareness and apprehensive nature of impermanence. At this place , ananda, who are on a pilgrimage to (this) shrine , if they should die with devotion in their heart during the course of the pilgrimage , will after (their ) death and dissolution of the body be reborn in a good destination , a fortunate celestial realm” (mahaparinirvana sutta).
LUMBINI : THE PILGRIMAGE .
Today devotees and visitors from all over the world come to lumbini , the timeless place where ancient monuments glorify the birthplace of sakyamuni and bear witness to the record of the noteworthy visits by famous dignitaries , the pilgrims deeply immerse themselves in the serene spiritual atmosphere
of lumbini .
the famous manrya Emperor Asoka guided by his spiritual teacher Upagupta made a pilgrimage to this holy site in 249 BC. He erected a stone pillar bearing an inscription stating clearly Hida Budhe Jate Sakyamuniti (hereSakyamuni Buddha was born). He laid importance to the marker-stone and constructed few other structures to mark the exact birthspot of the Buddha. He worshiped the nativity tree and Puskarini (the holy pond). He also visited other historical sites of Kapilavastu, Ramagrama and Devadaha.
Three famous Chinese pilgrims – tseng tsai (4th century AD ), fa –hsien (5th century AD ) and hiuen –tsang’s travel account gives the detall description c lumbini .he had seen the stump of the nativity tree , a chaity , the asokan pillar , the holy pond puskarini , the telar (oily) River and the source of warm and cool water springs .


King Ripu malla (1312 AD) of Kamali,west Nepal, visited Lumbini and left the mark of his visit engraved on the top of the Asokan pillar ‘Om ani Padme Hum Ripu Malla Ciranjayatu, The association of Lumini with the buddha went slowly to oblivion and the name lumbini gradually changed to rummindei and tries to rupandehi (present name of the district).
The then general khadga shumsher , Governor of palpa and Dr. alois fuhrer , an imminent archaeological surveyor in British india , discovered the Asoka pillar in 1896 . After the pillar was discovered and the famous inscription deciphered , more and more people were interested in the archaeology and history of the site . PC mukharji conducted an excavation in 1899, identified the nativity sculpture as well as some of the structural remains in and around the birthplace . in 1930s, keshar shumsher carried out large – scale excavation at the holy complex of lumbini and coverd up the archaeological site with a view to strengthen the maya devi temple the department of archaeology, Nepal (DoA) undertook the responsibility of conducting excavation , research and conservation since 1972, after the formation of the lumbini development trust (LDT) in 1985, the development activities at lumbini including the excavation and conservation of the holy compelx have been continued by the trust . in 1990s LDT, DoA and japan Buddhist federation excavated the maya devi temple .

Monday, March 21, 2011

Bhabanipur


People consider Bhabanipur lying 1 km south of barimai/Kanyamai to be the ancient Devdaha. There is a stone figure of Sun God in this place besides a stone pillar considered to have been established by Emperor Ashoka.

The Ashoka Pillar here at Devdaha is the first epigraphic evidence relating to the life history of Lord Buddha.
The stone pillar erected by Ashoka in 249 BC is one of the most noteworthy monunents and an authentic historic document of Devdaha. The inscription engraved by Ashoka is still intact and testifies to the authenticity of the birth place of lord Buddas mother and Wife.
King Piyadasi (Ashoka), the beloved of Devas, in the twentieth year of the coronation, himself made a visit to Devdaha and paid his homage. Realizing that the Buddha Sakyamuni's mother was born here, a stone railing was built and a stone pillar erected. Because the lord's mother was born here, the Emperor had the people of Devdaha village freed from some tax and entitled them to the eight part only. Right now this Pillar is not yet been Explored all and is still underground showing some of its portion up. It is believed that it can be as big as the pillar of Lumbini

eithashik devdaha pic

addresh in sunwal -7 targuli nawal parasi


buddha pictures

सिद्धार्थ गौतम जन्म

सिद्धार्थ गौतमका बाबु सुद्धोदन तत्कालिन तिलौराकोट राज्यमा शाक्य बंशका राजा थिए। यिनकी आमाको नाम मायादेवी थियो। भनिन्छ रानी मायादेवी आफ्नो माइत देवदह जाने क्रममा बाटोमा पर्ने लुम्बिनी भन्ने ठाउँमा पुग्दा प्रसव व्यथाले भेटेपछि आरामका लागि बसिन्। त्यहीँ उनलाई पुष्करिणी सरोवरको किनारमा एउटा रूखको फेदमा सुस्ताउँदै गर्दा बालक सिद्धार्थको जन्म भएको थियो।

Conception and birth

Gautama is thought to have been born in Lumbini, in modern day Nepal[16] and raised in the small kingdom or principality of Kapilavastu.[17] According to the most traditional biography,[which?] the Buddha's father was King Suddhodana, the leader of Shakya clan, whose capital was Kapilavastu, and who were later annexed by the growing Kingdom of Kosala during the Buddha's lifetime; Gautama was the family name. His mother, Queen Maha Maya (Māyādevī) and Suddhodana's wife, was a Koliyan princess. Legend has it that, on the night Siddhartha was conceived, Queen Maya dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered her right side,[18] and ten months later Siddhartha was born. As was the Shakya tradition, when his mother Queen Maya became pregnant, she left Kapilvastu for her father's kingdom to give birth. However, her son is said to have been born on the way, at Lumbini, in a garden beneath a sal tree.

The day of the Buddha's birth is widely celebrated in Theravada countries as Vesak.[19] Various sources hold that the Buddha's mother died at his birth, a few days or seven days later. The infant was given the name Siddhartha (Pāli: Siddhattha), meaning "he who achieves his aim". During the birth celebrations, the hermit seer Asita journeyed from his mountain abode and announced that the child would either become a great king (chakravartin) or a great holy man.[20] By traditional account,[which?] this occurred after Siddhartha placed his feet in Asita's hair and Asita examined the birthmarks. Suddhodana held a naming ceremony on the fifth day, and invited eight brahmin scholars to read the future. All gave a dual prediction that the baby would either become a great king or a great holy man.[20] Kaundinya (Pali: Kondanna), the youngest, and later to be the first arahant other than the Buddha, was reputed to be the only one who unequivocally predicted that Siddhartha would become a Buddha.[21]

While later tradition and legend characterized Śuddhodana as a hereditary monarch, the descendant of the Solar Dynasty of Ikṣvāku (Pāli: Okkāka), many scholars think that Śuddhodana was the elected chief of a tribal confederacy.

Early texts suggest that Gautama was not familiar with the dominant religious teachings of his time until he left on his religious quest, which is said to have been motivated by existential concern for the human condition.[22] At the time, many small city-states existed in Ancient India, called Janapadas. Republics and chiefdoms with diffused political power and limited social stratification, were not uncommon amongst them, and were referred to as gana-sanghas.[23] The Buddha's community does not seem to have had a caste system. It was not a monarchy, and seems to have been structured either as an oligarchy, or as a form of republic.[24] The more egalitarian gana-sangha form of government, as a political alternative to the strongly hierarchical kingdoms, may have influenced the development of the Shramana type Jain and Buddhist sanghas, where monarchies tended toward Vedic Brahmanism.[25]

Siddhārtha Gautama

was a spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism.[1] In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (P. sammāsambuddha, S. samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age, "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." [note 1] The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians dated his lifetime as c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE,[2] but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE.[3][4] By tradition, Gautama is said to have been born in the small state of Kapilavastu, in what is now Nepal, and later to have taught primarily throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.[5][6]
Gautama, also known as Śākyamuni ("Sage of the Śākyas"), is the primary figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral traditionsiddhartha gutam