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Sanghyang Adi Buddha is a concept of God in Indonesian Buddhism.This term was used by Ashin Jinarakkhita at the time of Buddhist revival in Indonesia in the mid-20th century to reconcile the first principle of the official philosophical foundation of Indonesia (), i.e. Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa (lit.
The Ādi-Buddha (Tibetan: དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས།, Wylie: dang po'i sangs rgyas, THL: Dangpö Sanggyé) is the First Buddha or the Primordial Buddha. [1] Another common term for this figure is Dharmakāya Buddha. [2] The term emerges in tantric Buddhist literature, most prominently in the Kalachakra.
Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUUD-ih-zəm, US also / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), [1] [2] [3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion [a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE. [7]
A Buddha is a being who is fully awakened and has fully comprehended the Four Noble Truths.In the Theravada tradition, while there is a list of acknowledged past Buddhas, the historical Buddha Sakyamuni is the only Buddha of our current era and is generally not seen as accessible or as existing in some higher plane of existence.
The status of life as a human, at first is seen as very important. In the hierarchy of Buddhist cosmology it is low but not entirely at the bottom. It is not intrinsically marked by extremes of happiness or suffering, but all the states of consciousness in the universe, from hellish suffering to divine joy to serene tranquility can be experienced within the human world.
A Buddha must master numerous arts and skills in his youth. A Buddha must live in the palace and enjoy his life with his wife. A Buddha must make a great departure from his palace and become a renunciant . A Buddha must practice asceticism. A Buddha must sit under a buddha tree (like the bodhi tree) on a bodhimanda (place of awakening)
The Ksudraka Agama (Skt. Kṣudraka Āgama; English: "Minor Collection") is one of the Buddhist Agamas, a collection of Buddhist texts. It corresponds to the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon . Rupert Gethin writes that in addition to the four main Nikāya /Āgama texts, a ‘minor’ collection of miscellaneous texts was also recognized.
Kassapa Buddha , is one of the ancient Buddhas whose biography is chronicled in chapter 24 [1] of the Buddhavaṃsa, one of the books of the Pali Canon. He was the previous Buddha of this aeon before the present Gautama Buddha , though Kassapa lived long before him.