27/02/2021
One of the most beautiful places in the world Tilicho Lake with Buddha statue🙏
Buddha means Enlightenment. Buddha causes living beings to wake up. Buddha is all-knowing. Buddha is all-seeing. Buddha attains Self-Enlightenment. Buddha has already bloomed. His defilements have been completely extinguished
The word “Buddha” means a personage who has attained the Four Noble Truths through the process of Self-Enlightenment. Buddha means a personage whose defilements have been completely extinguished. He is all-seeing. He causes living beings to wake up by teaching them to attain Enlightenment. He has opened up like a lotus flower because He is replete with virtues.
The Lord Buddha’s History: Over 2,500 years ago, an infant who possessed the thirty-two physical attributes of the Perfect Man was born into the royal family that ruled Kapilavastu. His father’s name was King Suddhodana. His mother’s name was Queen Sirimahamaya. She was the former princess of the Koliya House that ruled Devadaha. When she was ten months pregnant, she left her husband’s home in order to give birth to her child in Devadaha , and while in the wood of “Lumbini”, the queen felt the birth pang and later gave birth to her male infant under a large tree.
The birth took place near midday on the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon 80 years before the Buddhist Era. Five days after the infant prince was born, King Suddhodana invited 108 Brahmin scholars to come for a meal at the royal palace. Out of these 108 Brahmin scholars, there were eight who were experts in making predictions based on an individual’s physical features. These eight Brahmins were asked to make a prediction about the infant prince’s future and to give him a name.
Seven of the Brahmin scholars made two predictions about the infant prince. They said that if the prince remained a householder, he would become a Universal Monarch. But if he took up the religious life, he would attain Self-Enlightenment and become the Lord Buddha. One Brahmin scholar, the youngest of the eight, made only one prediction. He said that the infant prince would definitely take up the religious life and attain Self-Enlightenment to become the Lord Buddha. All eight Brahmin scholars agreed that the infant prince’s name should be “Siddhattha” or “Siddharatha” which means wish fulfillment.
Two days later when the infant prince was just seven days old, Queen Sirimahamaya passed away. Therefore, Prince Siddhattha was raised by Queen Mahapajabadi who was his aunt and King Suddhodana’s second queen. Queen Mahapajabadi gave birth to Prince Nanda and Princess Rupananda. Therefore, Prince Siddhattha had a half-brother and a half-sister. He also had many cousins belonging to the Sakya House who were of a similar age.
When Prince Siddhattha was seven years old, he was educated by the royal court’s Brahmin scholars. Seeing that his son was brilliant, King Suddhodana sent Prince Siddhattha to be educated by the Visavamitra masters. They were the foremost scholars in their fields in those days. Prince Siddhattha was able to learn everything from these masters very quickly and he was poised to assume the throne as a Universal Monarch in the future.
When the prince was sixteen years old, his father thought it was time for him to marry and the person the king had in mind for his son was Princess Yasodhara or Bimba. Princess Yasodhara was the daughter of King Suppabuddha and Queen Amita. The prince and princess were married and they later had a son named “Rahula”. Their life together Was a happy and abundant one. The king made sure that the prince had every comfort in life because he wanted his son to remain a householder for the rest of his life. The king wanted his son to become a Universal Monarch.
However, Prince Siddhattha’s accumulated merit and Perfections caused him to see the four celestial messengers that included an old person, a sick person, a dead person, and a monk. These images served to remind the prince of the suffering inherent in every life Such that he wished to find the way out of suffering by taking up the religious life as a monk.
Finally when the prince was 29 years old, he decided to become a monk by leaving the palace on his steed, “Kanthaka” and accompanied by his page “Channa”. When they arrived at the bank of the Anoma River, the prince cut off his top knot and took up the religious life as a monk.
Later, the prince-monk went to study under the Yogis Alara and Udaka
Respectively. He had learnt all that could be learnt from both Yogis but he knew that the knowledge gained could not lead him to attain Self-Enlightenment. Therefore, he decided to go and find the way out of suffering by himself. He had tried different methods popular among the ascetics at the time especially self-mortification.
After six years of extreme endeavoring, he was still nowhere near attaining Self-Enlightenment. Finally, the princemonk decided to practice meditation according to the Middle Way. This led him to attain Phra Dhammakaya and the Four Noble Truths. As a result, he became self-enlightened as the Lord Buddha on the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon forty-five years before the Buddhist Era.
The Lord Buddha’s birth, Self-Enlightenment, and the attainment of Complete Nibbana fall on the same day, which is the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon. Buddhists know this day as “Visakha Puja Day” or the Lord Buddha’s day.
After Self-Enlightenment, the Lord Buddha went far and wide to teach all living beings as well as people of every caste: Brahmin, Vaisya, Sudra, and half-caste. These people undertook ordination and practiced according to the Lord Buddha’s Teachings until they could attain the different stages of Enlightenment. Multitudes proclaimed themselves as Buddhists.
The Lord Buddha had used different teaching techniques which suited the character and level of knowledge of each individual such that His audiences could easily understand the teachings and attain the different stages of Enlightenment. The Lord Buddha had spent forty-five years establishing Buddhism in India. He attained Complete Nibbana on the 15th day of the 6th waxing moon when He was eighty years old.
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