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ifc_skn on Flickr.Maijishan Grottoes are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of the hill of Majishan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, northwest China. This example of rock cut architecture contains...
by c.ledur on Flickr.Boating on Inle Lake with buddhist stupas on the background, Myanmar.
a step back
Glimpse of a buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand | Dec 2019
he said U2 - Beautiful Day 🌨️☃️🏔️ Everest ॐ
it's all a Dream [Quiet Spell; 結び] 🤍
We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha Purnima💐🙏 . . . . . . . . #buddha #buddhism #buddhatattoo #buddhaart #buddhismisalifestyle #buddhaquotes #tibetanbuddhism https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3GRZ6D_1Y/?igshid=kpat0ba2zc5u
When you know illusion, you will immediately be free. Freedom from illusion is in itself enlightenment. - Tri huyễn tức ly. Ly huyễn tức giác.
Phật, Kinh Viên Giác (Buddha, The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment)
Biết nó là giả (huyễn) bèn ly cái khổ. Ly được cái huyễn tức là người giác ngộ.
A Zen Master said: "Before practicing Zen, rivers were rivers and mountains were mountains. When I practiced Zen, I saw that rivers were no longer rivers and mountains no longer mountains. Now I see that rivers are again rivers and mountains are again mountains."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys
Body artist paints a circle of life on her face, by Emma Allen. This is pretty much one of the core beliefs in Buddhism.
One fundamental belief of Buddhism is often referred to as reincarnation - the concept that people are reborn after dying. In fact, most individuals go through many cycles of birth, living, death and rebirth. A practicing Buddhist differentiates between the concepts of rebirth and reincarnation. In reincarnation, the individual may recur repeatedly. In rebirth, a person does not necessarily return to Earth as the same entity ever again. He compares it to a leaf growing on a tree. When the withering leaf falls off, a new leaf will eventually replace it. It is similar to the old leaf, but it is not identical to the original leaf.
After many such cycles, if a person releases their attachment to desire and the self, they can attain Nirvana. This is a state of liberation and freedom from suffering.
Source.
A timely reminder of how multi-cultural the ancient world really was.
Seated Buddha Bronze, 1st to mid-2nd century, Gandhara (modern Pakistan). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (X).
This is one of the earliest depictions of the Buddha in human form. Gandharan artists were familiar with Greek and Roman art from military expeditions, diplomacy, and trade. This Buddha’s unique halo is reminiscent of depictions of the god Helios in Greek and Sol in Roman art. The drape of the tunic echoes Hellenistic and Roman garments, as well as depictions of the Iranian god Mithra, and the Roman god Mithras.
See also:
Soper, Alexander C. “Aspects of Light Symbolism in Gandhāran Sculpture.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 12, no. 3, 1949, pp. 252–283. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3248387. Accessed 18 Dec. 2020.
Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargyeling, also known as Namdroling monestary was a temple constructed from bamboo, covering an area of approximately 80 square feet in a jungle where the indian government granted land for the tibetian exiles, initial challenges included rampaging elephants and other tropical dangers. Now its one of the largest teaching centers for nyingma lineage of tibetian buddhism in the world.. #buddhism #buddha #nyingma #namdroling #tibetan #monks #religions #architecture #spiritual #focus #nirvana #lifestyle #cultures #traditions #rituals #outlooktraveller #trav3lr #instagram #instadaily #rider #dairies #explore #karnataka (at Bylakuppa, Karnatka)
- The Last Journey of Buddha -
“O Bhikkhus. And if the practitioners [1] cultivate the thought that all things are impermanent in the future world, [2] and if you cultivates the thought that all things are not the self (Atman), [3] and if you cultivate the thought that all things are impure, [4] and if you cultivate the thought that all things are troublesome, [5] and if you cultivate the thought of renouncing all things, [6] and if you cultivate thoughts that depart from all earthly desires, [7] and if the thought of cessation is practised, then prosperity is expected of the practitioners during that time, and there will be no decline.”
Buddha (Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 1, At Vulture's Peak: 10)
Adoration of the Buddha.
©Robin Fifield 2023.
Bedroom Shrine.
©Robin Fifield 2023.
When a match is struck, a fire being with a soul, which may one day be reborn in a human body is born only to die a few moments afterwards. In every drop of rain, in every breath of wind, in every lump of clay is a living soul."
- Vardhaman, Translation by A.L. Basham
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