Buddhist Festivals And Monastery In India

Being an illustrious rhetorician, Buddha narrated his first speech in the Deer Park. From that moment, he chose the perplexing symbol of the wheel with its famous eight spokes to represent the Noble Eightfold Path. His preachings are like a WHEEL which goes round and round that never stops. Though the wheel has a central point- the only point which is fixed and immovable just like-Nirvana.  These eight discourses on the wheel symbolize the eight parts of the Noble Eightfold Path which portray- Just as every spoke is needed for the wheel to keep turning, we need to follow each step of the path.  1.   Right View . The right way to think about life is to see the world through the eyes of the Buddha--with wisdom and compassion. 2. Right Thought.  We are what we think. Clear and kind thoughts build good, strong characters. 3. Right Speech.  By speaking kind and helpful words, we are respected and trusted by everyone. 4. Right Conduct.  No...

Early Life Of Gautam Budhha Gautam Buddha was born in 566 B.C. at a place named- Lumbinivana in the Sakya country, which is situated in a region of Nepalese Terai. His father- Suddhodana was a Kshatriya monarch and popular as a chief of the Sakya dynasty. On Later dates, Legends entitled him with a tag- ‘a son of a prestigious king’. However, Sakyas always had a republican constitution. Therefore, it is believed that his father was presumably an appointed chief. Maya- who was Gautama’s mother died after the seven days of his birth. People reckon that Buddha lived his life with peace and repose. He earned an extra-ordinary competence and skills in archery and other imposing ethics and nobility. When he was sixteen, he got married to Yashodhara (Gopa) who was a sister of Devadutta. A son, named- Rahula was born to him at the age of 29. Abandonment of the ease Life Gautama examined and scrutinized on the fundamental questions of life as the years passed. History says tha...