This blog is used by the Dharmapeople RE support group to store and index interesting Buddhist material and sites, to be investigated for possible use by the main site as RE resources
Showing posts with label Buddha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buddha. Show all posts
Monday, 18 July 2016
EDU : World Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu3p_GsmNQPCOxoBJhDQEVyBRy64o9vbM
Friday, 15 July 2016
Sunday, 1 May 2016
What the Buddha Taught, by Walpole Rahula
http://www.dhammaweb.net/books/Dr_Walpola_Rahula_What_the_Buddha_Taught.pdf
What the Buddha Taught
by Walpole RahulaThursday, 24 March 2016
A Course in the Majjhima Nikaya with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL23DE0292227250FA
A Course in the Majjhima Nikaya with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
- BAUS Chuang Yen Monastery
- 221 videos
- 33,545 views
- Last updated on Nov 19, 2015
This ongoing course offers the opportunity to study the Majjhima Nikaya with one of the co-translators of the influential English translation, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom Publications). The class starts at 9:30 am with a half-hour silent meditation. This is followed at 10 am by a talk on a sutta, with time for questions. A discussion period led by the teacher will be held after lunch, from noon to 12:30 pm. Newcomers are welcome.
Labels:
Audio,
Buddha,
Buddhism,
Dhamma,
Study Course,
text,
Theravada,
Traditional,
youtube
Friday, 8 January 2016
Myth in Buddhism, by Piya Tan
Myth in Buddhism
by Piya Tan
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Thursday, 24 September 2015
Buddhism Documentary - Representing the Buddha Bhante Anandajoti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7J4KbR2tIo
Buddhism Documentary - Representing the Buddha Bhante Anandajoti
Published on Sep 23, 2015
Buddhism Documentary - Representing the Buddha Bhante Anandajoti
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Gautam Buddha's Animated Life Story in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcH2Xa1xWY
Gautam Buddha's Animated Life Story in English
Gautam Buddha's Animated Life Story in English
Published on Aug 18, 2015
Gautama 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 tradition, and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Gautama 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 tradition, and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Friday, 14 August 2015
Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4vyeKH1rUY
Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films
Published on Aug 13, 2015
Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films
Buddhism /ˈbudɪzəm/[1][2] is a nontheistic religion[note 1][3] or philosophy (Sanskrit: dharma; Pali: dhamma) that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha ("the awakened one"). According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.[note 1] He is recognized by Buddhists as an awakened or enlightened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end their suffering through the elimination of ignorance and craving. Buddhists believe that this is accomplished through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths.
Read more about Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
Thanks for watching Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films
Subscribe for more - Atlas Documentary Films at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIw...
Buddhism /ˈbudɪzəm/[1][2] is a nontheistic religion[note 1][3] or philosophy (Sanskrit: dharma; Pali: dhamma) that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha ("the awakened one"). According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.[note 1] He is recognized by Buddhists as an awakened or enlightened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end their suffering through the elimination of ignorance and craving. Buddhists believe that this is accomplished through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths.
Read more about Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
Thanks for watching Bhuddhism - Atlas Documentary Films
Subscribe for more - Atlas Documentary Films at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIw...
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Buddhism in the NorthEast of India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQLw3q7Chu8
Buddhism in the NorthEast of India
Buddhism in the NorthEast of India
Published on Jun 25, 2015
The film traces the journey of Buddhism from india toTibet, and how it came back to northeast India with Guru Padmasambhava...
The film traces the journey of Buddhism from india toTibet, and how it came back to northeast India with Guru Padmasambhava...
Labels:
Buddha,
Buddhism,
documentary,
education,
history,
India,
Indian,
Indonesia,
Induism,
video,
youtube
Story of The Buddha In English Talking Before Sleep For Kids
https://youtu.be/zYtSV3Yh6vA
Story of The Buddha In English Talking Before Sleep For Kids
Story of The Buddha In English Talking Before Sleep For Kids
Published on Sep 6, 2014
Buddhism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English Talking Book - Buddha - YouTube
2:21 The Life of Buddha (Thai Cartoon Version - English Speaking)
Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma Talks | Recent talks given by Thay from ...
Dharma Talk: History of Engaged Buddhism - The Mindfulness Bell
Buddhist Studies: Basic Teachings - BuddhaNet
Story of the Buddha for Primary Students - BuddhaNet
Buddhism and Present Life
Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha - Access to Insight
Jataka Tales
Buddhist eBooks - Free Download - Urban Dharma
History of Buddhism - Shippensburg University
Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness | Talk Video | TED.com
The Story of Lord Buddha - Watch Free Documentary Online
The Story of Bodhidharma | USA Shaolin Temple. Official Website
What Is a Buddha? - Who Was the Buddha? - Buddhism - About.com
Buddha Prophesized about the coming of Jesus - Bible Probe
Using Buddhist Methods to Help Us in Daily Life - The Berzin Archives
Talk:Buddhism - RationalWiki
Transcript: The Buddha in the World | On Being
Why I stopped following Buddha - Christian Answers Network
Osho on Buddhism - Satrakshita
Audio Dharma - Welcome to Audio Dharma
China's Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of ...
History of the Devil: Buddhism
A Brief History of Buddhist Canons | 84000
Buddhist Travel | Wandering Dhamma
Buddhism - Wikiquote
Near Death Experience in Thailand - 1st information in English.
Reviews - BUDDHA
The Man from Earth (Philosophical Films)
Buddhadharma - Web Archive - From Folk Hero to Deity
“A man said to the Buddha, 'I want Happiness.'” | Fake Buddha Quotes
iTunes - Podcasts - free buddhist audio : community » Podcasts by ...
free buddhist audio : free mp3s and texts on buddhism, meditation ...
Staying at a Thai monastery — Travelfish.org
Full text of "The Jataka : or stories of the Buddha's former births"
English Translation - Academia.edu
Buddhist Fiction | Buddhist Fiction Blog
Buddhism in Myanmar/Burma - ThisIsMyanmar.com
A Short Talk on the Diamond Sutra - Open Buddha
Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and ... - thezensite
stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public ...
Stories from the Heart - View on Buddhism
dhamma musings: Buddha Prophesized Jesus?
Top 10 celebrity Buddhists | Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
The Buddhist Perspective on Time and Space - International ...
BBC News - Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman
The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra
Astasahasrika - The Huntington Archive
Buddhism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English Talking Book - Buddha - YouTube
2:21 The Life of Buddha (Thai Cartoon Version - English Speaking)
Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma Talks | Recent talks given by Thay from ...
Dharma Talk: History of Engaged Buddhism - The Mindfulness Bell
Buddhist Studies: Basic Teachings - BuddhaNet
Story of the Buddha for Primary Students - BuddhaNet
Buddhism and Present Life
Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha - Access to Insight
Jataka Tales
Buddhist eBooks - Free Download - Urban Dharma
History of Buddhism - Shippensburg University
Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness | Talk Video | TED.com
The Story of Lord Buddha - Watch Free Documentary Online
The Story of Bodhidharma | USA Shaolin Temple. Official Website
What Is a Buddha? - Who Was the Buddha? - Buddhism - About.com
Buddha Prophesized about the coming of Jesus - Bible Probe
Using Buddhist Methods to Help Us in Daily Life - The Berzin Archives
Talk:Buddhism - RationalWiki
Transcript: The Buddha in the World | On Being
Why I stopped following Buddha - Christian Answers Network
Osho on Buddhism - Satrakshita
Audio Dharma - Welcome to Audio Dharma
China's Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of ...
History of the Devil: Buddhism
A Brief History of Buddhist Canons | 84000
Buddhist Travel | Wandering Dhamma
Buddhism - Wikiquote
Near Death Experience in Thailand - 1st information in English.
Reviews - BUDDHA
The Man from Earth (Philosophical Films)
Buddhadharma - Web Archive - From Folk Hero to Deity
“A man said to the Buddha, 'I want Happiness.'” | Fake Buddha Quotes
iTunes - Podcasts - free buddhist audio : community » Podcasts by ...
free buddhist audio : free mp3s and texts on buddhism, meditation ...
Staying at a Thai monastery — Travelfish.org
Full text of "The Jataka : or stories of the Buddha's former births"
English Translation - Academia.edu
Buddhist Fiction | Buddhist Fiction Blog
Buddhism in Myanmar/Burma - ThisIsMyanmar.com
A Short Talk on the Diamond Sutra - Open Buddha
Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and ... - thezensite
stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public ...
Stories from the Heart - View on Buddhism
dhamma musings: Buddha Prophesized Jesus?
Top 10 celebrity Buddhists | Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
The Buddhist Perspective on Time and Space - International ...
BBC News - Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman
The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra
Astasahasrika - The Huntington Archive
English Talking Book - Buddha - YouTube
2:21 The Life of Buddha (Thai Cartoon Version - English Speaking)
Thich Nhat Hanh Dharma Talks | Recent talks given by Thay from ...
Dharma Talk: History of Engaged Buddhism - The Mindfulness Bell
Buddhist Studies: Basic Teachings - BuddhaNet
Story of the Buddha for Primary Students - BuddhaNet
Buddhism and Present Life
Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha - Access to Insight
Jataka Tales
Buddhist eBooks - Free Download - Urban Dharma
History of Buddhism - Shippensburg University
Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness | Talk Video | TED.com
The Story of Lord Buddha - Watch Free Documentary Online
The Story of Bodhidharma | USA Shaolin Temple. Official Website
What Is a Buddha? - Who Was the Buddha? - Buddhism - About.com
Buddha Prophesized about the coming of Jesus - Bible Probe
Using Buddhist Methods to Help Us in Daily Life - The Berzin Archives
Talk:Buddhism - RationalWiki
Transcript: The Buddha in the World | On Being
Why I stopped following Buddha - Christian Answers Network
Osho on Buddhism - Satrakshita
Audio Dharma - Welcome to Audio Dharma
China's Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of ...
History of the Devil: Buddhism
A Brief History of Buddhist Canons | 84000
Buddhist Travel | Wandering Dhamma
Buddhism - Wikiquote
Near Death Experience in Thailand - 1st information in English.
Reviews - BUDDHA
The Man from Earth (Philosophical Films)
Buddhadharma - Web Archive - From Folk Hero to Deity
“A man said to the Buddha, 'I want Happiness.'” | Fake Buddha Quotes
iTunes - Podcasts - free buddhist audio : community » Podcasts by ...
free buddhist audio : free mp3s and texts on buddhism, meditation ...
Staying at a Thai monastery — Travelfish.org
Full text of "The Jataka : or stories of the Buddha's former births"
English Translation - Academia.edu
Buddhist Fiction | Buddhist Fiction Blog
Buddhism in Myanmar/Burma - ThisIsMyanmar.com
A Short Talk on the Diamond Sutra - Open Buddha
Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and ... - thezensite
stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public ...
Stories from the Heart - View on Buddhism
dhamma musings: Buddha Prophesized Jesus?
Top 10 celebrity Buddhists | Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
The Buddhist Perspective on Time and Space - International ...
BBC News - Sri Lanka to deport Buddha tattoo British woman
The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha Sutra
Astasahasrika - The Huntington Archive
Friday, 12 June 2015
Ten Famous Buddha Rupas
http://buddhism.about.com/od/iconsofbuddhism/ss/Ten-Famous-Buddhas-Where-They-Came-From-What-They-Represent.htm#step-heading
Ten Famous Buddha Rupas
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Who Was the Buddha & What Did He Teach? History, Philosophy, Mythology, Biography (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2elqAeh0
Who Was the Buddha & What Did He Teach? History, Philosophy, Mythology, Biography (2001)
Published on May 18, 2015
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is .
Religion, Philosophy, and all things based on Faith.
Download: The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings .
Published on May 10, 2015
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.
Gautama 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 tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order during the Mahajanapada era in India during the reign of Bimbisara, the ruler of the Magadha empire, and died during the early years of the reign of Ajatshatru who was the successor of Bimbisara, thus making him a younger contemporary of Mahavira, the Jain teacher.[7] Apart from the Vedic Brahmins, the Buddha's lifetime coincided with the flourishing of other influential sramana schools of thoughts like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jain, and Ajñana. It was also the age of influential thinkers like Mahāvīra, Pūraṇa Kassapa , Makkhali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambalī, Pakudha Kaccāyana, and Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, whose viewpoints the Buddha most certainly must have been acquainted with and influenced by.[8][9][note 7] Indeed, Sariputta and Maudgalyāyana, two of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, were formerly the foremost disciples of Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, the skeptic. There is also evidence to suggest that the two masters, Alara Kalama and Udaka Ramaputta, were indeed historical figures and they most probably taught Buddha two different forms of meditative techniques. While the most general outline of "birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death" must be true, most scholars do not consistently accept all of the details contained in traditional biographies.
The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE. More recently his death is dated later, between 411 and 400 BCE, while at a symposium on this question held in 1988, the majority of those who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death. These alternative chronologies, however, have not yet been accepted by all historians.
The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhārtha Gautama was born into the Shakya clan, a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch. According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, nowadays in modern-day Nepal, and raised in Kapilavastu (Shakya capital), which may either be in present day Tilaurakot, Nepal or Piprahwa, India.[note 1] He obtained his enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, gave his first sermon in Sarnath, and died in Kushinagara.
No written records about Gautama have been found from his lifetime or some centuries thereafter. One edict of Emperor Ashoka, who reigned from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE, commemorates the Emperor's pilgrimage to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini. Another one of his edict mentions several Dhamma texts, establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Mauryan era and which may be the precursors of the Pāli Canon. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, reported to have been found in or around Haḍḍa near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and now preserved in the British Library. They are written in the Kharoṣṭhī script and the Gāndhārī language on twenty-seven birch bark scrolls, and they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_...
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is .
Religion, Philosophy, and all things based on Faith.
Download: The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings .
Religion, Philosophy, and all things based on Faith.
Download: The history of Buddhism is the story of one man's spiritual journey to Enlightenment, and of the teachings .
Published on May 10, 2015
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.
Gautama 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 tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order during the Mahajanapada era in India during the reign of Bimbisara, the ruler of the Magadha empire, and died during the early years of the reign of Ajatshatru who was the successor of Bimbisara, thus making him a younger contemporary of Mahavira, the Jain teacher.[7] Apart from the Vedic Brahmins, the Buddha's lifetime coincided with the flourishing of other influential sramana schools of thoughts like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jain, and Ajñana. It was also the age of influential thinkers like Mahāvīra, Pūraṇa Kassapa , Makkhali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambalī, Pakudha Kaccāyana, and Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, whose viewpoints the Buddha most certainly must have been acquainted with and influenced by.[8][9][note 7] Indeed, Sariputta and Maudgalyāyana, two of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, were formerly the foremost disciples of Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, the skeptic. There is also evidence to suggest that the two masters, Alara Kalama and Udaka Ramaputta, were indeed historical figures and they most probably taught Buddha two different forms of meditative techniques. While the most general outline of "birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death" must be true, most scholars do not consistently accept all of the details contained in traditional biographies.
The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE. More recently his death is dated later, between 411 and 400 BCE, while at a symposium on this question held in 1988, the majority of those who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death. These alternative chronologies, however, have not yet been accepted by all historians.
The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhārtha Gautama was born into the Shakya clan, a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch. According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, nowadays in modern-day Nepal, and raised in Kapilavastu (Shakya capital), which may either be in present day Tilaurakot, Nepal or Piprahwa, India.[note 1] He obtained his enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, gave his first sermon in Sarnath, and died in Kushinagara.
No written records about Gautama have been found from his lifetime or some centuries thereafter. One edict of Emperor Ashoka, who reigned from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE, commemorates the Emperor's pilgrimage to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini. Another one of his edict mentions several Dhamma texts, establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Mauryan era and which may be the precursors of the Pāli Canon. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, reported to have been found in or around Haḍḍa near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and now preserved in the British Library. They are written in the Kharoṣṭhī script and the Gāndhārī language on twenty-seven birch bark scrolls, and they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_...
The word Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era. In most Buddhist traditions, Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha (Pali sammāsambuddha, Sanskrit samyaksaṃbuddha) of our age. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region. He later taught throughout regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kośala.
Gautama 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 tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Scholars are hesitant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha's life. Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order during the Mahajanapada era in India during the reign of Bimbisara, the ruler of the Magadha empire, and died during the early years of the reign of Ajatshatru who was the successor of Bimbisara, thus making him a younger contemporary of Mahavira, the Jain teacher.[7] Apart from the Vedic Brahmins, the Buddha's lifetime coincided with the flourishing of other influential sramana schools of thoughts like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jain, and Ajñana. It was also the age of influential thinkers like Mahāvīra, Pūraṇa Kassapa , Makkhali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambalī, Pakudha Kaccāyana, and Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, whose viewpoints the Buddha most certainly must have been acquainted with and influenced by.[8][9][note 7] Indeed, Sariputta and Maudgalyāyana, two of the foremost disciples of the Buddha, were formerly the foremost disciples of Sañjaya Belaṭṭhaputta, the skeptic. There is also evidence to suggest that the two masters, Alara Kalama and Udaka Ramaputta, were indeed historical figures and they most probably taught Buddha two different forms of meditative techniques. While the most general outline of "birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death" must be true, most scholars do not consistently accept all of the details contained in traditional biographies.
The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain. Most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE. More recently his death is dated later, between 411 and 400 BCE, while at a symposium on this question held in 1988, the majority of those who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha's death. These alternative chronologies, however, have not yet been accepted by all historians.
The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhārtha Gautama was born into the Shakya clan, a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch. According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, nowadays in modern-day Nepal, and raised in Kapilavastu (Shakya capital), which may either be in present day Tilaurakot, Nepal or Piprahwa, India.[note 1] He obtained his enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, gave his first sermon in Sarnath, and died in Kushinagara.
No written records about Gautama have been found from his lifetime or some centuries thereafter. One edict of Emperor Ashoka, who reigned from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE, commemorates the Emperor's pilgrimage to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini. Another one of his edict mentions several Dhamma texts, establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Mauryan era and which may be the precursors of the Pāli Canon. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts are the Gandhāran Buddhist texts, reported to have been found in or around Haḍḍa near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan and now preserved in the British Library. They are written in the Kharoṣṭhī script and the Gāndhārī language on twenty-seven birch bark scrolls, and they date from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)