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"Preserving the Sacred Arts is always part of the preservation of Dharma" ~ Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche ~
This is a high quality 5 inch by 7 inch photo (not giclee) of Shakyamuni Buddha. The photo was taken of a Tibetan Buddhist thangka from Nepal by Master Artist Prem Lama. Suitable for framing and use on your altar or as a "deity card" for your practice.
Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher from Ancient India
and the founder of Buddhism. He is generally recognized by Buddhists as
the Supreme Buddha (Sammāsambuddha) of our age. The time of his birth
and death are uncertain: a majority of 20th-century historians date his
lifetime from circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but some more recent
scholars have suggested dates around 410 or 400 BCE for his death. Some
suggest even later dates. These alternative chronologies, however, have
not yet been accepted by all other historians.
Gautama, also known as Sakyamuni or Shakyamuni
(“sage of the Shakyas”), is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of
his life, discourses, and monastic rules were summarized after his
death and memorized by the sangha. Passed down by oral tradition, the
Tripitaka, the collection of discourses attributed to Gautama, was
committed to writing about 400 years later.
Buddha's life
The
prime sources of information regarding Siddhārtha Gautama's life are
the Buddhist texts. The Buddha and his monks spent four months each
year discussing and rehearsing his teachings, and after his death his
monks set about preserving them. A council was held shortly after his
death, and another was held a century later. At these councils the
monks attempted to establish and authenticate the extant accounts of
the life and teachings of the Buddha following systematic rules. They
divided the teachings into distinct but overlapping bodies of material,
and assigned specific monks to preserve each one. This was done orally
until three generations after the Buddha's death, when they were
recorded. By this point, the monks had added or altered some material
themselves, in particular magnifying the figure of the Buddha.
The
ancient Indians were not concerned with chronologies, being far more
focused on philosophy. The Buddhist texts reflect this tendency, and we
have a much clearer picture of what the Buddha thought than of the
dates of the events in his life. These texts contain descriptions of
the culture and daily life of ancient India which can be corroborated
from the Jain scriptures, and make the Buddha's time the earliest
period in Indian history for which substantial accounts exist.
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Open skies, forests, wooden carts, things big and small,
Parts or wholes: nothing truly has independent being.
Question everything that appears to the mind, and
Realize how the deluded living beings, gullible as oxen,
See everything through the distorted consciousness
That grasps at things as standing alone.
A donkey can have no horns on its head;
Similarly, how can anything have true existence?
From atoms to the omniscient wisdom of enlightenment,
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