Enlightenment story of the Buddha in a sutra?
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Enlightenment story of the Buddha in a sutra?
I'm looking for a primary source (ie a sutra) in english which succinctly describes the enlightenment of the buddha under the bodhi tree. Can anyone suggest which sutra I should be looking for?
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Re: Enlightenment story of the Buddha in a sutra?
You can find some references to Pali Suttas here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/buddha.html
For a Mahayana sutra you could try:
http://read.84000.co/#!ReadingRoom/UT22084-046-001/0
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/buddha.html
For a Mahayana sutra you could try:
http://read.84000.co/#!ReadingRoom/UT22084-046-001/0
There is not only nothingness because there is always, and always can manifest. - Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
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Phenomniverse wrote:I'm looking for a primary source (ie a sutra) in english which succinctly describes the enlightenment of the buddha under the bodhi tree. Can anyone suggest which sutra I should be looking for?
Laliltavistara Sutra:
http://read.84000.co/#!ReadingRoom/UT22084-046-001/0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Enlightenment story of the Buddha in a sutra?
Thanks guys, I appreciate the assistance.
Re: Enlightenment story of the Buddha in a sutra?
I know that Buddhism has many Buddhas. The Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life has a long list of Buddhas. Chinese restaurants normally have a statue of the Lucky Buddha and a picture of the Business Buddha.
Does the title, the Buddha, always mean Siddhārtha Gautama?
Does the title, the Buddha, always mean Siddhārtha Gautama?
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Normally it does, unless one talks about the Buddha Amitabha, for example. But, yes, normally, when we say "the Buddha" it is Buddha Siddhatha Gautama that is meant.Ghid wrote:I know that Buddhism has many Buddhas. The Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life has a long list of Buddhas. Chinese restaurants normally have a statue of the Lucky Buddha and a picture of the Business Buddha.
Does the title, the Buddha, always mean Siddhārtha Gautama?
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Sherab Dorje wrote:Normally it does, unless one talks about the Buddha Amitabha, for example. But, yes, normally, when we say "the Buddha" it is Buddha Siddhatha Gautama that is meant.Ghid wrote:I know that Buddhism has many Buddhas. The Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life has a long list of Buddhas. Chinese restaurants normally have a statue of the Lucky Buddha and a picture of the Business Buddha.
Does the title, the Buddha, always mean Siddhārtha Gautama?
Thank you. I should have said that sooner, so for you, I have a haiku. The seventh grade history text said that Romans were the first to use camels on the silk road.
Globalization:
Romans used camels to get
it over the hump.