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Life of Buddha

a summery by CS OoiKL Buddhism Study Group

International Buddhist CollegeJuly 2012

BUDDHISM Part

06

Buddha’s Ministry 30th Year to the Parinibbana

Life of Buddha A Handful Of Leaves

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501. Buddha explained that all knowledge could be compared to all the leaves in the whole forest. However what he taught could be compared to the handful of leaves in his hand. He taught only Dukkha or Sufferings an most important concept in Buddhist traditions, and how to cease from them.

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Life of Buddha High Respect To The Dhamma


502. Buddha paid high respect to the Dhamma. When he knew that the monks were studying the Dhamma, he would not interrupt all of them and would wait until they finish.

Life of Buddha High Respect To The Dhamma


Life of Buddha Anger Has Three Levels


503. Buddha taught that the feeling of anger has three levels. The first level looked like the marks on the rock. The second level looked like the marks on the soil. The first level looked like the marks on the water. The first level is the evil type of anger as it is hard to remove.

Life of BuddhaAnger Has Three Levels


Life of Buddha Speech Has Three Levels


504. Buddha also classified the types of speech into three levels. The first level speech is like faces, The second level speech is like flowers, The third level speech is like honey, The first level is ugly and evil, and should not be used.

Life of BuddhaSpeech Has Three Levels


Life of Buddha He Who Serves The Sick, Serves Me


505. One day the Buddha visited a monastery. While he was there he came across a chamber where a monk lay in great pain caused by a loathsome disease. Although there were many other monks at the monastery, not one of them was concerned about their sick brother. The Buddha, beholding this woeful situation, began to look after the suffering man. He called Ananda and together they bathed the monk, changed his dirty bed and eased his pain. Then the Buddha admonished the monks of the monastery for their neglect and encouraged them to nurse the sick and care for the suffering. He concluded by saying, "Whosoever serves the sick and suffering, serves me."

Life of Buddha He Who Serves The Sick, Serves Me

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Life of Buddha Girimananda Sutta AN 10.60


506. Savatthi, in Jetavana, Anathapindika's monastery, Ven. Girimananda was diseased, in pain, severely ill. Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and he said to the Blessed One, "Lord, Ven. Girimananda is diseased, in pain, severely ill. It would be good if the Blessed One would visit Ven. Girimananda, out of sympathy for him.“ Buddha replied, "Ananda, if you go to the monk Girimananda and tell him the ten perceptions, it's possible that when he hears the ten perceptions his disease may be allayed”.

Life of Buddha Girimananda Sutta AN 10.60

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Life of Buddha Ven. Tissa The Sick Monk

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507. The Buddha taking care of a sick monk, named Pûtigatta Tissa (Dhammapada 3:41) who had been neglected by his fellow monks. By so doing, the Buddha wanted to foster mutual care and welfare amongst the Bhikkhu as well as others.

Life of Buddha Ven. Tissa The Sick Monk

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Life of Buddha Hermit Saccaka Challenges The Buddha

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508. Hermit Saccaka challenges the Buddha to a debate After losing in the lively debate, the haughty hermit Saccaka refused to answer accordingly when the Buddha asked a question. Only when he was threatened to be beaten up by a celestial demon for arrogance, only then did he finally realize his own folly and listened to the Buddha’s preaching meekly. He never looked down on anyone since then. This wholesome action of his was good for his future.

Life of Buddha Hermit Saccaka Challenges The Buddha


Life of Buddha Nandopananda The Dragon


509. Once the Buddha and His Disciples went to Lake Anotatta passing by the mansion of Nandopananda the dragon. Angry at the trespassing, Nandopananda coiled itself round Mount Meru, and spewing hot poisonous smoke to prevent the Buddha and his disciples from reaching lake Anotatta. Thereupon Maha Moggalana at once transformed himself into a dragon and likewise coiled round the mountain, crushing Nandopananda. Maha Moggalana too began spewing hot poisonous smoke which greatly distressed Nandopananda who soon lost the challenge and upon realization of his folly, sought refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddhism.

Life of Buddha Nandopananda The Dragon


Life of Buddha Kisa Gotami And The Mustard Seeds

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510. A mother, Kisa Gotami agonized over the sudden death of her only son, came to Buddha, asking him to help her saving her son. Buddha suggested to her to find some mustard seeds at a house where no one has died and he would help her. She could not find any. The Buddha then delivered a sermon on impermanence. She was then enlightened, became a nun, leading a life of happiness and serenity.

Life of Buddha Kisa Gotami And The Mustard Seeds

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Life of Buddha Baka Brahma And The Snake


511. Baka Brahma, in believing that the Brahma Loka is the best and everlasting world in existence was bitten by the poisonness snake. Buddha came to the rescue in a mutual contest to show of power. On hearing the Buddha’s profound expounding of the Dhamma (Buddhist Doctrine), he became enlightened along with many other Brahmas (higher celestial beings).

Life of Buddha Baka Brahma And The Snake


Life of Buddha Poor Sopaka In The Cemetery

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512. Sopaka was seven when his father died. His mother married another man who was very wicked and unkind. His stepfather always beat and scolded Sopaka. One evening the stepfather took Sopaka to the cemetery, tied him to a dead body and left him there. He was almost paralyzed with fear. Then he saw a noble-looking person coming towards him. Next he realised that he was with Buddha in the Jetavana monastery. The Buddha bathed him, gave him food to eat, cloths to wear, consoled and comforted him. Early the next day his mother went to see the Buddha for help and found Sopaka there. After listening to the Buddha's teachings she became a follower.

Life of Buddha Poor Sopaka In The Cemetery

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Life of Buddha Lady Patacara

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513. Patacara's parent wanted her to marry a wealthy man’s son. But she had already fallen in love with her pageboy. Just before the wedding, Patacara ran away with her page boy. They married. After some time Patacara give birth to their child. Now Patacara wanted to go home to her parents, but her husband would not allow her. After some time she was ready to give birth to her second child. She decided to return to her parents again and left while her husband was at work. Her husband realizing this, went and caught up with her. While this was happening a fearful storm arose.

Life of Buddha Lady Patacara


Life of Buddha From A Mother To A Nun

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514. As he was trying to clear a shelter for her, a poisonous snake bit him and he died. She continued her journey to her parents' house. She came to the river Aciravati. It was swollen due to the rain. She could not cross with both children. She left the older child on the near bank and carried the baby across to the other side. She returned to take the firstborn. When she was midstream an eagle saw the baby and came swooping down in spite of Patacara's yells, flew off with the baby. The older boy saw his mother stop in the middle of the river and heard her loud yells. He thought she was calling him and started out after her. Immediately, he was swept off by the current.

Life of Buddha From A Mother To A Nun


Life of Buddha From A Nun To Arahant

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515. The storm also blew down her parent’s house killing all in it. When she heard that, her grief was too much to bear, she went crazy. Buddha helped her and later ordained her as a nun. One day, she was cleaning her feet with water from a water-pot. As she poured the water for the first time, it flowed only a short distance and disappeared; then she poured for the second time and the water went a little farther, but the water she poured for the third time went the farthest. She came to perceive clearly the three stages in the life of beings. She understood impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and insubstantiality of the aggregates. She had become an Arahant.

Life of Buddha From A Nun To Arahant


Life of Buddha

Visakha (31th Year)

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516. Visakha at the age of 7 she first met the Buddha. At fifteen, she married Punnavaddhana the son of a millionaire named Migara in Savatthi. Visakha was kind and generous to everyone in the city and everyone loved her, But Migara was a Brahmin and did not like Buddhist monks. One day Migara was eating, when a monk came for alms. Although Migara saw the monk, he continued to eat as if he had not. Visakha politely told the monk, "Pass on, Venerable Sir, my father-in-law is eating stale food."

Life of Buddha Visakha (31th Year)

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Life of Buddha

Visakha And Migara

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517. This angered Migara who then tried to discredit her. Visakha proved her innocence by explaining that Migara ignored the monk and continued to eat, thus he was not making merit in his present life. He was only enjoying the merits of his past actions. Was this not like eating stale food?" Migara had to admit that she was not guilty of being rude. There were other misunderstandings after this, but Visakha was able to explain all her actions. After these incidents, Migara began to see the great wisdom of Visakha. (migaramatupasada)

Life of Buddha Visakha And Migara


Life of Buddha

Pubbarama Monastery

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518. At Visakha’s suggestion, the Buddha was invited to their house to give teachings. On hearing the discourse Migara became a sotapanna. With wisdom and patience, she succeeded in converting her husband's household to a happy Buddhist home. Visakha was also very generous and helpful to the monks. Visakha, was a great lay female supporter of the Buddha. She built the Pubbarama (Migāramātupāsāda Pali for "Migara's mother's palace”) monastery for the monks at great cost. Immense was her joy when the Buddha spent six rainy seasons from the 39th to the 44th Vassa there.

Life of Buddha Pubbarama Monastery


Life of Buddha

Visakha’s Grandchild


519. Buddha taught Visakha not to be so sad of her grandchild’s death. He added that if she had a thousand children, wouldn’t it be so tiring all the time if a child died everyday. After that Visakha felt better. (DhA.iii.278). The grandchild is a girl identified as Datta.

Life of Buddha Visakha’s Grandchild


Life of BuddhaTransfer Of Merits

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520. The tradition of pouring the water for the transfer of merits, following the offering dedicated to the dead was started at the time of King Bimbisara. King Bimbisara after making his offering to the Buddha, in the name of his ancestors who were reborn as Petas (hungry ghosts). The tradition continues until today. Buddha then preached the Tirokutta Sutta and taught the phrase Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu, meaning well done, well done, well done after an act of merit making.

Life of Buddha Transfer Of Merits

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Life of Buddha King Bimbisara Died (37th Year)


521. According to the story, Bimbisara was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru to ascend the throne of the kingdom of Magadha. Ajatasatru allowed no one but Kosala devi to meet Bimbisara in the cell. Ajatasatru wanted to starve him to death, as Devadatta had said "father cannot be killed by a weapon“. Thus Kosala devi used several methods to smuggle food to the king. When Ajatasatru saw that the king was not dying he then ordered a barber to pierce the king's legs with a knife, Ajatashatru later ordered his father's release after the birth of his first child, but by then it was too late and Bimbisara had already died. This was reported to have taken place around 491 BC.

Life of Buddha King Bimbisara Died (37th Year)


Life of Buddha King Ajatashathu Went To See The Buddha


522. After King Ajatashatru killed his father King Bimbisara, he had sleepless nights and has problems with his conscious. The king was recommended to seek the advice of the Buddha. Going to the Veluvana Monastry, he was surprised when he saw the large group of monks sitting so quietly.

Life of Buddha King Ajatashathu Went See The Buddha


Life of Buddha King Ajatashathu Didn’t Understand The Dhamma


523. Buddha knew that King Ajatashatru killed his father this was his highest sin. The Buddha preached to King Ajatashatru. The King was able to feel better. Buddha thought that the Dhamma could have help the King. However unfortunately the King didn’t understand the Dhamma teachings.

Life of Buddha King Ajatashathu Didn’t Understand The Dhamma


Life of Buddha Arahant Sariputta And His Mother

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524. Just before his death, Sariputta bade his last farewell to the Buddha and went home to repay his mother's kindness. Sariputta's mother, Sari, was very upset that her son became a monk. So after he entered monkhood, she refused to talk to him. On the night before Sariputta's Parinibbana, the gods came to his room to pay respect. The glorious lamination of the gods brightened up the whole room. Sari was awoken by the light. When she saw these gods with her son, she realized that her son was no ordinary monk. Thus Sariputta was able to teach his mother the Dhamma and she became a Stream-Winner. Sariputta was able to repay his mother's kindness before he passed away on the full moon day of Kattika

Life of Buddha Arahant Sariputta And His Mother

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Life of Buddha Arahant Monggollana And His Mother

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525. Ullambana Sutra, Once the Buddha asked his disciple, Ven. Maudgalyayana, to perform this meritorious deed on Ullambana Day in order to rescue his mother who was suffering in the hungry ghost ream. His mother was saved by his deed. Thus, many Buddhists in both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions follow Ven. Maudgalyayana's example by performing a Maha Sanghikadana Puja to benefit their parents both living and deceased. Moggallāna died two weeks later after Saripputa, on the new moon day after the full moon day of Kattika (SA.iii.181)

Life of Buddha Arahant Monggollana And His Mother

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Life of Buddha Parinibbana Of Maha Monggallana


526. According to the Commentaries (J.v.125ff) his death resulted from a plot of the Niganthas. Moggallāna used to visit various worlds and return with his report that he had discovered that those who followed the Buddha's teaching reached happy worlds, while the followers of the heretics were reborn in woeful conditions. These statements diminished the number of the heretics and they bribed brigands to kill Monggallāna. They caught him and beat him, crushing his bones and leaving him for dead. Having recovered consciousness, he dragged himself to the Buddha in order to take his leave, and there he died, This death is said to have been the result of a karmic sin committed by him in a previous birth.

Life of Buddha Parinibbana Of Maha Monggallana

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Life of Buddha Not Value But Intention


527. Buddha taught the monk not to see the value of received things, but to see their intention levels of giving, Generally, it is the difference between how people perceive and what people really do. The phrase is associated with attitudes and behaviors. Buddha wanted the monk not to put material values on the generosity of their contributors as this can lead to greed and comparison between the luxury gifts and simple generous gifts, which can lead to favoritism and unhealthy behaviors.

Life of BuddhaNot Value But Intention


Life of Buddha Ananda Encounter Matanga

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528. Ananda was young and handsome and this caused him some trouble. One day, he begged in Sravasti and on the way back he saw a well. A peasant girl was getting water from the well. Ananda was thirsty so he asked the girl to give him some water. She told him that she is a lowly peasant who is not fit to offer anything. Ananda said that he is a bhikkhu and he is equal towards the rich and poor. The girl was deeply attracted by Ananda's looks and his gentle speech. She even dreamed of marrying him.

Life of Buddha Ananda Encounter Matanga

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Life of Buddha Matanga Followed Ananda

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529. Next day, when he passed by her house, the girl smiled and she followed him. Ananda was nervous and helpless. He returned to the monastery and told the Buddha everything. The Buddha then told him to bring the girl to him. Buddha said that Ananda is a practicing monk, to be his wife you need to leave home and be a Bhikkhuni for a year, and asked if she was willing. After getting her mother’s permission she became a Bhikkhuni. Buddha's earnest teachings had finally awakened her to become a model Bhikkhuni. She then abandoned her interest for Ananda.

Life of Buddha Matanga Followed Ananda

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Life of Buddha Filial Piety Sutra

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530. Buddha once led his assembly of wandering monks on a walk toward the south. Suddenly they came upon a pile of bones beside the road. The Buddha faced them and bowed respectfully. The Buddha explained that this pile of bones could have belonged to my ancestors. That is the reason I now bow to them. Most women also give birth to and raise children, quite as an inborn duty. Each child relies on its mother's milk for life and nourishment. Each child drinks a lot of its mother's milk. If a person is not filial, when his life ends he will fall into suffering that is difficult to take, difficult to bear.

Life of Buddha Filial Piety Sutra

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Life of Buddha Devadatta


531. Devadatta was a naughty man. He was especially dissatisfied because Sariputra and Maudgalyayana, both not of the sakya Clan, had been chosen to be the Buddha’s chief disciples and were very much honored by all. So he left the Sangha and went alone to Rajagrha in order to contact Ajatasatru, the crown-prince of King Bimbisara. At Rajagrha he spoke in a manner that Prince Ajatasatru admired and gained his respect. So the Prince built a splendid monastery near Rajagrha, which was to be used solely as Devadatta’s residence, and promised to support him forever.

Life of Buddha Devadatta

Life of Buddha Devadatta And The Buddha


532. Many years later, the Buddha went to Rajagrha again. Devadatta visited him and requested his permission to establish a new Sangha with himself as leader. The Buddha turned down his request, explaining that anything that divides a Sangha would not result in good consequences. But Devadatta persisted in carrying out his own plan regardless of the Buddha’s warning, and his plan had the complete support of Prince Ajatasatru. However, King Bimbisara, the prince’s father, remained a firm supporter of the Buddha and flatly refused to co-operate in establishing the new Sangha.

Life of Buddha Devadatta And The Buddha

Life of Buddha Devadatta Enticed Prince Ajatasatru


533. Using devious means, Devadatta enticed Prince Ajatasatru so that the latter trusted him completely and did everything according to his intention. When Devadatta was satisfied that he had firm control over the prince’s will, he suggested to prince Ajatasatru that he should banish his father and become King of Magadha himself, for then he could do whatever he liked, such as helping Devadatta establish the new sangha, without any hindrance. Prince Ajatasatru followed his suggestions. He put his father in prison, gave him no food, and finally, starved him to death. This incident occurred in the thirty-seventh year after the Buddha attained the state of perfect enlightenment.

Life of Buddha Devadatta Enticed Prince Ajatasatru

Life of Buddha The Plot With The Archers


534. Now Devadatta had enough power to make his move, for the new king was his friend and supporter, willing to do, with all his effort, whatever Devadatta proposed to him. So Devadatta asked the prince to recruit a group of skillful archers and hire them at high pay to kill the Buddha, but when they came upon the Buddha’s residence and noticed the peace, kindness, solemnity and reverence in the Buddha’s manner, they were very impressed and immediately realized that they should not harm the Buddha. So they went all together to the Buddha and confessed to him that they felt guilty at being hired to perform such an evil act. The Buddha pardoned them and consoled them gently, and they, in turn, all vowed to follow the Buddha as his disciples.

Life of Buddha The Plot With The Archers

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s Next Plot To Kill The Buddha


535. When all plots to kill the Buddha by using other people failed, Devadatta decided to take matters into his own hands and do it himself. He waited on the side of Grdhrakuta Mountain above a road near the Buddha’s residence, which the Buddha often used to go by. One evening, just as the Buddha was walking by, Devadatta, hiding above, pushed a huge stone down the hillside.

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s Next Plot To Kill The

Buddha

Life of Buddha Rolling A Rock Onto The Buddha


536. He was intending to kill the Buddha, but the rock,

which was aimed at the Buddha’s head, suddenly broke into many small pieces, only one sharp fragment hit the Buddha’s foot, causing some bleeding but no serious damage. The Buddha returned to the monastery and received treatment from the famous physician Jivaka.

Life of Buddha Rolling A Rock Onto The Buddha

Life of Buddha Nalagiri, Devadatta’s Third Plot


537. Again his deadly plot had failed, but Devadatta still continued eagerly to do harm to the Buddha. This time his plan was to set loose the wild elephant Nalagiri, in order to kill the Buddha on the road the Buddha took when he went begging for food at Rajagrha.

Life of Buddha Nalagiri, Devadatta’s Third Plot

Life of Buddha Nalagiri Became Calm

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538. However, when the wild elephant approached the Buddha, it failed to act as Devadatta had expected, but, on the contrary, became calm, for it was tamed by the Buddha’s enormous compassion. Thereafter, Devadatta could do nothing but cease planning to murder the Buddha, yet he still intended to disrupt the sangha.

Life of Buddha Nalagiri Became Calm

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s More Stringent Code Of Conduct


539. In order to give the bhiksus the impression that what he practiced was even stricter than what the Buddha taught, Devadatta once again went to see the Buddha, acting as if he had never even tried to disrupt the sangha. He requested the Buddha to enforce a more stringent code of behavior, as other monastic sects did, such as not allowing bhiksus to live in covered houses, but only in the open, under trees in the forest. He also asked the Buddha to prevent bhiksus from eating any kind of meat, and he suggested to the Buddha that anyone who failed to observe this rule should be ousted from the sangha.

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s More Stringent Code Of Conduct

Life of Buddha Buddha Refused Devadatta’s Suggestions


540. The Buddha Openly refused. Devadatta’s request, saying: “If some bhiksus prefer to live in the open or under trees, they are free to do so; but if anyone does not like to do so, he may choose to live in whatever kind of accommodation his patron provides.” Regarding Devadatta’s other suggestions for tightening up of the rules, the Buddha ruled in a similar manner: “If anyone wishes to eat only the food he has begged, or to wear clothes made only of cloth strips picked up in the woods or from garbage piles, or to eat only vegetables and no meat, he is free to do so; but if someone does not wish to do so, he does not have to.; Finally, Buddha warned Devaddtta: “Do not attempt to do anything to disrupt the sangha, for you will reap the evil fruits of such an attempt.”

Life of Buddha Buddha Refused Devadatta’s Suggest

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s New Sangha


541. Devadatta, however, paid no attention to the Buddha’s warning and took his leave feeling very spiteful. Soon he led away a group of bhiksus who trusted him, formed a new sangha in the country with himself as their leader, and strictly observed his new code of living. Being aware of all this, the Buddha sent Sariputra to advise this group of bhiksus to get themselves out of this unfortunate situation. Sariputra arrived just as Devadatta was taking his nap. He then related honestly what the Buddha’s opinion was regarding the formation of the new sangha and also pointed out to them many facts about Devadatta’s character and actions. This new information and insight changed the minds of all the bhiksus, and they all returned to the Buddha with Sariputra.

Life of Buddha Devadatta’s New Sangha

Life of Buddha Devadatta Went To Confront The Buddha


542. When Devadatta woke up from his afternoon nap, he became aware that it was everywhere unusually still. He came out to investigate and there was not a single bhiksu remaining. After a while others told him that Sariputra had come and talked to the bhiksus and took them back to the Buddha. Devadatta was extremely furious, but since he could not walk for a long way because of his body was weak, he ordered his servants to prepare the sedan-chair and to carry him to see the Buddha so that he could find out what the Buddha’s purpose was in drawing back to himself all the bhiksus.

Life of Buddha Devadatta Went To Confront The

Buddha

Life of Buddha Devadatta Died


The earth opened up and it swallowed Devadatta to Hell.

543. When the bhiksus learned the Devadatta was approaching in a rage, they offered their opinion requesting the Buddha that he should hide himself, for they feared that an irritated Devadatta might become dangerous when he saw the Buddha. But the Buddha was not in the least afraid. He said to Sariputra: “Devadatta cannot do any harm to the Buddha.” Later on, people found that what the Buddha had said was entirely true, for the bhiksus were soon informed that Devadatta had died unexpectedly when the chair-bearers paused on the road for a short rest. From that time until the Buddha’s nirvana, the sangha was never disrupted again.

Life of Buddha Devadatta Died

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Physician Javaka

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544. Jivaka was the most celebrated doctor in India during the Buddha's time. When he grew up, Jivaka studied medicine for seven years under a famous teacher. Soon his unusual skill as a physician and a surgeon became known. He was called upon to treat kings and princes, including King Bimbisara himself. But of all the distinguished people Jivaka attended to, his greatest pleasure was to attend to the Buddha. Jivaka helped in many ways. When Devadatta threw down a rock splinter and injured the Buddha's foot, it was Jivaka who healed him. Jivaka built and donated the monastery to the Buddha and the monks.

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Physician Jivaka

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Life of Buddha The Buddha Taught For 45 Years


545. The Buddha taught and converted beings for altogether forty-five years. He travelled to and from the neighboring kingdoms in India, both large and small, always on foot, never using any vehicle. During the rainy seasons, he stayed at monasteries offered to him by various patrons. The places the Buddha stayed at most often were Venuvana, near Rajagrha, offered to him by King Bimbisara, and Jetavana, near Sravasti, donated by Anathapindika, During all these years, the Buddha worked diligently every day to teach and to propagate the dharma.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Taught For 45 Years

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Daily Schedule


546. The Buddha usually got up before dawn, took a bath, and then went into samadhi to examine people’s natures and characters. When he found that someone was suitable and ready to accept his teaching, he would go to that person’s place and convert him that very day. After daybreak, the Buddha put on his robe, took his bowl, and went for alms from people in the neighborhood.

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Daily Schedule

Life of Buddha Buddha Is Up Before Dawn


547. He sometimes went alone and sometimes with bhiksus in neat files, everyone with bowl in hand; and in a peaceful and gracious manner they passed by one house after another, accepting food from all patrons. Sometimes there were people who respectfully invited the Buddha to their homes to accept offerings. The Buddha usually accepted the invitation if there only was a proper reason. At the patron’s home, the Buddha would sit on a prepared mat, and the patron would take the Buddha’s bowl and full it with the best food and offer it to him.

Life of Buddha Buddha Is Up Before Dawn

Life of Buddha The Buddha Accepts Dana Invitations Too


548. After eating the food and washing his hands, the Buddha expounded dharma to the people who were there, causing them to understand that after doing good or bad things, they would correspondingly gain either happiness or misery, in either this or in a future life. He also advised and instructed them to practice diligently the Buddha-dharma. There after the Buddha returned to the monastery.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Accepts Dana Invitations Too

Life of Buddha Dana

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549. The Great Steward (DN 19) "‘The gifts given to the Buddha are well-bestowed, his fame is well established, so much so that, I think, the warrior-caste nobles in India will continue to be attached to him. Yet the Buddha accepts food-offerings without conceit. And we can find no teacher who does this... other than the Buddha.

Life of Buddha Dana


Life of Buddha The Conditions Of Welfare

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Vyagghapajja Sutta (AN 8.54)

550. Vyagghapajja Sutta (AN 8.54). In this sutra, the Buddha instructs rich householders to preserve and increase their prosperity and how to avoid loss of wealth. Wealth alone, does not make a complete man nor a harmonious society. Possession of wealth all too often multiplies man's desires, and he is ever in the pursuit of amassing more wealth and power. This unrestrained craving, leaves him dissatisfied and stifles his inner growth. It creates conflict and disharmony in society through the resentment of the underprivileged who feel themselves exploited by the effects of unrestrained craving. The Buddha then follows up on his advice on material welfare.

Life of Buddha The Conditions Of Welfare

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Life of Buddha Administration Of Justice

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551. Vammika Sutta (MN 23). The judicial procedure adopted by the Buddha is clearly illustrated in the case of the Arahant Theri Kumara, Kassapa's mother, who unaware of her pregnant condition, with her husband's consent left her home and entered the Bhikkuni order. Later, finding her in an advanced state of pregnancy, the bhikkuni was charged with a serious allegation of misconduct and summoned before a religious court of appeal. The Buddha ordered Upali Thera, foremost among His Arahant disciples in knowledge of Vinaya matters, The Arahant Upali on hearing the evidence absolved the bhikkuni of any transgression.

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Life of Buddha In The Monastery


552. In the monastery, the Buddha used to sit quietly in the rest hall or under a tree in the surroundings waiting until all the bhikkhu had returned from their alms round and had finished eating and went then for a while into his room to rest. When all the bhikkhu had assembled in the discussion hall, the Buddha would give a sermon that befitted the particular occasion. Or he would encourage the bhikkhu during their discussions to l earn and practice diligently he Buddha-dharma so that they might achieve the final goal of attaining nirvana in this present life.

Life of Buddha In The Monastery

Life of Buddha The Buddha Explains The Dharma


553. When the Buddha had finished expounding the dharma, some bhikkhu often requested the Buddha to outline the main objectives of dharma so that they could understand and recite in a way that befitted their particular natures and capacities. The Buddha would then consider the nature and the degree of advancement of the individual and give an easy intelligible or a very deep verse that was most suitable for that particular person. There after the bhikkhu dispersed, each bhikkhu would find a quiet place in the forest or under a tree or in a deserted dwelling, where he would sit down to meditate and recite and verse that the Buddha had given to him. The Buddha would also return to his own living quarters.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Explains The Dharma

Life of Buddha The Buddha Teaches By Skillful Means


554. In summertime, if the Buddha stayed at certain places, the people in the neighborhood would come to visit him in the evening. Some came with offering; some came to listen to his preaching. By various means and using skillful and marvelous language, the Buddha always made everyone understand what he said. Everybody-whether rich, poor, learned or ignorant-felt that the Buddha had expounded the dharma for him. Thus, after the sermon, everybody was happy and satisfied and showed before the Buddha that he had confidence in the Buddha-dharma and would put it strictly and reverently into practice throughout his lifetime.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Teaches By Skillful Means

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Evening Routine


555. After the people had left, the Buddha returned to the monastery to bathe, but if there was a suitable river or pond in the vicinity, he might take a bath there in the evening. After his bath, the Buddha would enter into samadhi to rest for some time and then continue to receive bhiksus coming from other places. The Buddha would inquire about how they were teach and instruct them and explain to them the Buddha-dharma which was difficult to understand, bringing them to understand it and leave afterwards full of joy.

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Evening Routine

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Night Routine


556. Being tired after sitting all day, the Buddha took his “promenade” at dusk time. He walked back and forth in one place within the monastery to get rid of his fatigue and to regain his freshness. Every evening, after his promenade, the Buddha would talk again with the bhiksus. Late at night important persons, such as kings might come to visit the Buddha and inquire about certain problems; and the Buddha used to answer their questions and they took leave afterwards full of joy.

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Night Routine

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Sleep Routine


557. After that it was time to go to sleep. The Buddha slept with his right side down, his two legs slightly bent, the left one on the right one; his left hand was placed on his left thigh, and his right hand was bent back placed under his right cheek. The Buddha went quietly to sleep at the proper time and awakened before dawn. Then he entered into samadhi to explore the natures of his prospective audiences for the day and continued after daybreak to expound the dharma.

Life of Buddha The Buddha’s Sleep Routine

Life of Buddha The Buddha Worked Very Hard


558. The Buddha had been teaching and converting people for forty-five years, yet he always worked very hard, never slackening, in his dharma-propagating work. When he was not journeying on the road, he spent his time not only expounding the dharma, but also, because of his vast knowledge and lofty and deep wisdom, solving problems for those people whom he encountered and directing them to their realization of the true meaning of life. He always showed his willingness to help when someone approached him with a problem or question, whether he was a farmer, a gardener, a blacksmith, or a cart-maker.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Worked Very Hard

Life of Buddha The Buddha Is Perfect


559. The Buddha was never reluctant to answer difficult questions or explain complicated problems; nor had he ever been irked by any inquirer or unable to answer a question. The Buddha always expounded the dharma in a way most suitable to the nature of the people, whether they came to learn out of sincerity or whether they were there only to heckle. Those who came to inquire about the more profound aspects of dharma were cordially welcomed and offered perfect and complete explanations. And those who came to challenge or test the Buddha were always defeated by his wisdom, and would finally express their desire to be the Buddha’s loyal disciples for the rest of their lives.

Life of Buddha The Buddha Is Perfect

Life of Buddha Village Of Beluva (44th Year)

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560. This is a small village probably near Vesali where Buddha spent this rain retreat. At this time Vimala Kodanna the son of the Beautiful Courtesan called Amrapali and King Bimbisara of Magadha became a Bhikkhu. Amrapali gave a dana for Buddha and the sangha. Amrapali also presented the Amrapalivana to the Buddha. Amrapali or Ambapali was born of an unknown parentage, and was given her name because at her birth she was found at the foot of a mango tree in one of the royal gardens in Vesali (Vaishali)

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Life of Buddha The End Of The Shakya (44th Year)

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561. Mahanama became king of the Shakya after the passing away of King Sudhodana. Virudhaka was the grandson of King Mahanama from his mother’s side. His mother was the outcome of an affair between Mahanama and a slave girl. His mother was offered in marriage to King Prasenajit of Kohsala without divulging her true caste history to the King. Thus when Virudhaka was a young prince he was angered by racist caste insults by the Shakyan people. When Virudhaka became king he went with an army to destroy the Shakyan Kingdom. Buddha managed to stop him on his first three attempts. On the fourth attempt Buddha could not stop him.

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Life of Buddha When The Buddha Was Eighty Years Old


562. In the forty-fifth years of his travelling and preaching career, the Buddha had reached his eightieth year. He realized that his travelling around was about to end, for he felt his physical strength was declining even though his mind was as strong as ever, Knowing that he could not remain in the world much longer, the Buddha decided to journey north to the foothills of the Himalayas, the region most familiar to him in his younger days. His intention was to enter Nirvana in that place, so he left Rajagrha with Ananda and a group of bhiksus.

Life of Buddha When The Buddha Was Eighty Years Old

Life of Buddha Last Rain Retreat At Vaisali (45 Year)


563. On the way north, the Buddha went through the kingdom of Patali and then turned northward passing Vaisali. The Buddha had stayed in Vaisali before, where he received the offering of Amravana garden from the dissolute girl Amrapali, who had competed the princes of the country in making offerings to the Buddha. When the Buddha arrived at Bamboo Grove Village, he ordered his bhikkhus to take up residence for the rainy season anywhere they like, but both the Buddha and Ananda decided to remain for the rainy season there in the village.

Life of Buddha Last Rain Retreat At Vaisali (45 Year)

Life of Buddha Buddha Was Sick


564. During his stay for the rainy season at Bamboo Grove Village, the Buddha became seriously ill, but later on he gradually recovered and his pain completely disappeared. Buddha told Ananda that even the Buddha had to get older. No one could escape all these facts. Birth, old age, sickness and death are unavoidable. One day at noon, Ananda made up the cushion for the Buddha so that he could sit in the shade of the monastery.

Life of Buddha Buddha Was Sick

Life of Buddha Ananda Took Good Care Of Buddha


565. Ananda said: “ Buddha! I am so happy to see that you have recovered your normal health. I was very sad before to see you so seriously ill. But I always thought that you would not go into Nirvana at that time but would continue to instruct us bhikkhus further and long enough so that the bhikkhus could become the foundation in putting into practice what was taught by the Buddha after your Nirvana.

Life of Buddha Ananda Took Good Care Of Buddha

Life of BuddhaI Have Taught You Everything You Need


566. The Buddha said: “Ananda! What can the bhiksus still expect from me?” I have told everything there is to know about dharma; there is nothing else left. By this time, the bhiksus should know the way to practice, to verify their practice and to attain nirvana; I do not keep any secrets. With all my heart I wish the very best for all the bhiksus and have high expectations and hopes for them. I have told them everything they should know up to the time of their final deliverance from suffering

Life of Buddha I Have Taught You Everything You Need

Life of Buddha Do Not Depend On Others

567. Ananda! I am an old man now; my strength is ebbing; my time is close to its end; I am eighty already! Therefore, you should depend on yourselves, for oneself is the place to abide in. Do not depend on others. Dharma is what you should rely on, for dharma is the root of mind, and nothing else is. “ Finally the Buddha repeated: “Ananda! Any bhiksu who is determined to practice is to be considered the most progressive one in the sangha!”

Life of Buddha Do Not Depend On Others

Life of Buddha I Will Enter Nirvana In Three Months


568. At daybreak, the Buddha felt more comfortable and was able to go for alms in the city of Vaisali. After eating, the Buddha left for Pave Stupa and told Ananda to bring the cushion so that he could take a happy rest at midday. While the Buddha was sitting alone under the shade of a tree, he investigated with his mind the cause and the condition of his passing away and concluded that he would enter Nirvana after three months. When Ananda came over to him, the Buddha said: “Ananda! On the fifteenth day of the Visakha month the Buddha will enter Nirvana; it is only three months away.”

Life of Buddha I Will Enter Nirvana In Three Months

Life of Buddha Death Is Unavoidable


569. Ananda implored him: “Please do not enter Nirvana, Buddha. Please stay and continue to help people to stop suffering!” The Buddha said to Ananda: “Ananda! The Buddha has completely severed himself from the karmic effects of life and death, and will attain Nirvana three months from now. Further, death is unavoidable, and nothing can exist forever. Ananda! Do not think about this now.

Life of Buddha Death Is Unavoidable

Life of Buddha At Mahavana Monastery


570. Come, let us go to Mahavana Monastery, and ask the bhikkhu of Vaisali to assemble there.”At the Buddha’s order, Ananda left. When the bhikkhu had gathered at Mahavana, Ananda went to inform the Buddha. The Buddha went to the place of the assembly and there gave his most important instruction. He also expressed the final expectations he had of the bhikkhu, encouraging them to observe strictly all the Buddha’s teaching, for the benefit of people in the world, helping beings to practice and to learn the Buddha-dharma and serving as models for the people in the world.

Life of Buddha At Mahavana Monastery

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Most Important Instruction



571. Finally he repeated: “All worldly things are transient and illusory. You must practice and learn diligently and think about the future improvement of your selves. Guard your own minds, do not be heedless, so that you can then expect liberation from all the suffering of turning round of birth and death.

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Most Important Instruction

Life of Buddha Buddha Leaves Vaisali



572. One morning, in order to take a final look at the city of Vaisali, the Buddha and Ananda went for alms there. The Buddha said to Ananda: “Ananda! This is the last time that I shall see the city of Vaisali. Ananda! Let’s go to Bhanda Village.” At Bhanda, he took a rest, preached to the people there, then, together with his disciples, there after visited the villages of Hatthi, Amba and Jambu,.

Life of Buddha Buddha Leaves Vaisali

Life of Buddha Ananda Stupa

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573. Finally arriving at the city of Bhoga where he stopped at the Ananda Stupa. There Buddha pointed out to the bhikkhu that there are fours ways of teaching in order to check the principles of the Buddha-dharma. Then he continued his journey with his disciples to the city of Pava and rested at the Mango Garden which belonged to Cunda, the son of a metal-smith.

Life of BuddhaAnanda Stupa

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Life of Buddha Food Dana From Cunda


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574. The Buddha preached to Cunda and his family causing them to have confidence in and take refuge in the Buddha-dharma. He then accepted Cunda’s invitation to receive offerings at his home the next morning. In the food that Cunda offered the Buddha there was mixed in it a kind of fungus grown on sandalwood, which, when the Buddha ate it, caused his former illness to flare up even more seriously than before. The Buddha came down heavily with the illness known as pakkhandhikabadha.

Life of Buddha Food Dana From Cunda

Life of Buddha Buddha Was Thirsty


575. However, the Buddha bore the pain with all his strength and continued to journey onward, hoping to reach Kusinagara. Taking a short rest every once in a while along the way, the Buddha gradually approached Kusinagara. While traveling to Kusinara, the Buddha was thirsty and had Ananda fetch water for him. Ananda pointed out that the water in this river was very shallow. Moreover, a caravan had just crossed over it, having stirred up the water and made it muddy. Buddha refused Ananda's invitation to travel to Kukkutanadi three times. So Ananda took the Buddha's bowl to the river. Seeing the water, he was amazed to find it very clear.

Life of Buddha Buddha Was Thirsty

Life of Buddha Buddha Met Pukkusa



576. While he paused under a tree, he met Pukkusa, a prince of the Malla clan and one of the old sage Arada-kalama’s disciples, who was on his way from Kusinagara to Pava and asked for the opportunity to see the Buddha. The Buddha preached the dharma of being peace-abiding to him there then arose confidence in him and he vowed to take all his life refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and he presented the Buddha with two rolls of fine gold-colored cloth. The Buddha accepted only one roll, and had Pukkusa offer the other roll to Ananda. The Buddha then crossed the Kakuttha River, took a quite a while, and arrived at Hiranyavati River, which was within the boundaries of Kusinagara.

Life of Buddha Buddha Met Pukkusa

Life of Buddha At Salavana

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577. After crossing the Hiranyavati River, they arrived at Salavana, a holiday resort of the royal clan of Malla, which was outside the city of Kusinagara. The Buddha felt he could go no further, and said to Ananda: “Ananda! Prepare a place for me to lie down between those two sala trees. I feel very tired. “ Ananda took the Buddha’s big robe, folded it four ways, and placed it on the bed between two big sala trees. The Buddha then lay down on his side with his head toward the north. The Buddha did not fall asleep, but only rested to relieve his pain and fatigue., His mind remained tranquil as it had ever been.

Life of Buddha At Salavana

Life of Buddha Ven. Channa

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578. Channa the charioteer who accompanied Prince Siddhartha when he renounced the world and left the palace on horseback. When the prince became a Buddha, Channa also became a monk. As a monk, he was very arrogant and overbearing. Channa used to say, “I came along with my master when he left the palace for the forest.” In spite of repeated admonitions and advice given by the Buddha, Channa did as he pleased and continued to scold and abuse the monks. On the eve of his parinirvana, the Buddha called Ven Ananda and instructed him to impose the brahma-punishment (Brahmadanoa) to Channa, After the parinirvana Channa felt a deep and bitter remorse for having done wrong and asked for pardon.

Life of Buddha Ven. Channa

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Life of Buddha Ananda Wept


579. Ananda felt that the Buddha was really about to leave him this time, and he could not hold bear the grief in his heart. So he left the Buddha and wept in an isolated place among the trees, muttering to himself: “Unlike other bhikkhus, I have not attained the stage of Arahant. I have to continue to learn and practices, but now my teacher will pass away and leave me behind. I shall lose my compassionates master forever and be left all alone!” His face became flooded with tears.

Life of Buddha Ananda Wept

Life of Buddha Buddha Asked For Ananda


580. When the Buddha opened his eyes and failed and find Ananda, he asked the bhiksus who were at his side: “Where did Ananda go?” The bhiksus replied: “Ananda is weeping in a hidden place. He says that he has not attained the stage of arhant and has to keep on learning and practising, but that his ever-compassionate teacher is going to leave him!” The Buddha said: “Bhiksu! Go tell Ananda that the Buddha is looking for him.” The bhiksu did as he was ordered. When Ananda came back, the Buddha comforted him very kindly and compassionately.

Life of Buddha Buddha Asked For Ananda

Life of Buddha Buddha Praised Ananda


581. The Buddha praised Ananda in front of the other bhiksus, saying: “All the Buddhas in the past had excellent attendants, but they could not excel Ananda, my attendant. All the Buddhas in the future will have excellent attendants, but they will not excel what Ananda has done for me. Ananda is the best and most clever attendant I have ever had. Ananda knows how to arrange just the right time for me to meet with visitor has found only the very highest satisfaction in the way Ananda has received and treated him. When Ananda tells a person something, he always listens so attentively, as to surpass all the expectations of Ananda. Ananda has, at all times, been my most excellent attendant!”

Life of Buddha Buddha Praised Ananda

Life of Buddha Ananda’s Request


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582. Later, Ananda said to the Buddha: “Buddha! Please do not enter Nirvana in such improper, out-of-the-way, small place. Please select one of the large cities such as Rajagrha, Sravasti, Vaisali, or some other city and enter Nirvana there. In those place there are many rich and powerful persons who are your disciples; they will bear the responsibility of arrangement of your holy remains.” Buddha replied that he had already agreed to enter Parinibbana when Mara requested it of him earlier.

Life of Buddha Ananda’s Request

Life of Buddha Buddha Sent Ananda To Kusinagara


583. The Buddha said to Ananda: “No! Ananda, Don’t say that! You should not think of this as a small and insignificant and unimportant place. Long ago this was a prosperous metropolis, a capital city the residence of a Cakravarti King. Ananda! Go to Kusinagara and tell the king and the people that tonight, during the last watch of the night, the Buddha will enter Nirvana in this forest, and if they wish to, they should come to see me before that time.” Ananda went to Kusinagara with several bhiksus and told King Malla and his people what the Buddha had said.

Life of BuddhaBuddha Sent Ananda To Kusinagara

Life of Buddha The People Visited Buddha


584. When the king and people of Kusinagara learned from Ananda that the Buddha was about to enter Nirvana, they all wept sadly and said: “It is too early for the Buddha to enter Nirvana. Too soon is extinguished the light of the world!” Men, women, and children, lamenting loudly, flocked to Salavana, where Buddha was staying, hoping that they might see the Buddha once more and express their concern for him. People visited the Buddha in groups in an orderly manner. Everybody was unwilling to leave him, however

Life of BuddhaThe People Visited Buddha

Life of Buddha Subhadra The Last Convert


585. An itinerant young man of an heretical cult, whose name was Subhadra, happened to be in Kusinagara. When he learned that Buddha was about to enter Nirvana, he decided to visit him in order to ask him some questions that had been bothering him he believed that only the Buddha would be able to give him a thorough explanation . Subhadra went to Salavana and asked Ananda for permission to see the Buddha in order to have his questions answered before the Buddha entered Nirvana.

Life of BuddhaSubhadra The Last Convert

Life of Buddha Ananda Refused Subhadra



586. Ananda said to him: “No, No! Subhadra! The Buddha is very tired; you must not bother him with any questions now.” But Subhadra was very anxious to see the Buddha. He pleaded again and again, and Ananda rejected him again and again, holding to the fact that the Buddha was very ill and should not be bothered by anybody. But when the Buddha heard them both talking, he knew Subhadra’s intention and ordered Ananda to let him come in .

Life of Buddha Ananda Refused Subhadra

Life of Buddha Buddha Explained To Ananda


587. The Buddha told Ananda: “Ananda! Do not stop Subhadra; let him come in as he wished. What he wants is to ask me about some problems he has in practicing the Buddha-dharma; he does not mean to disturb me with meaningless trifles. My explanations will make him understand immediately,” So Ananda permitted Subhadra to go in to see the Buddha and ask his questions.

Life of BuddhaBuddha Explained To Ananda

Life of Buddha Buddha Preached To Subhadra


Subhadra The Last Convert


588. Having listened to Subhardra’s question, Buddha began preaching to him till all the puzzles in his mind were solved and any problems cleared up. In Subhadra there arose then confidence and he requested the Buddha to accept him as a bhiksu. The Buddha gave him the opportunity and ordered Ananda to shave his head. Thus Subhadra became the last bhiksu converted by the Buddha. Like Kaundinya, the first bhiksu converted by the Buddha at Mgadava, Subhadra learned and practiced the Buddha-dharma very diligently, and he attained the stage of arhant before long.

Life of BuddhaBuddha Preached To Subhadra

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Last Advice


889. Later, the Buddha gave the bhiksus at his side a chance to raise any last questions by asking if any of them still had doubts about the Buddha-s dharma. But none of the bhiksus had any doubt whatsoever about the Triratna of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. The Buddha then said to the bhiksus for the last time: “Bhiksus! This is the last occasion for me to talk to you. All; actions and deeds are transient and you must detach yourselves from them completely; do not be heedless!”

Life of BuddhaBuddha’s Last Advice

Life of Buddha Buddha Entered Maha parinabbana


590. The Buddha then entered samadhi, reaching the ninth realm of dhyana; from the deep ninth dhyana he receded to the realm of the fourth dhyana. When he had emerged from the fourth dhyana, he completely exterminated the five skandhas (accumulations that bind people to the cycle of birth and death) so that he would ever again have rebirth of death in either this or other realms or worlds.

Life of BuddhaBuddha Entered Maha parinabbana

Life of Buddha The Parinibbana

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591. At that time, Buddha, the perfectly enlightened one, at the age of eighty, entered the Mahaparinirvana in the last watch of the night of the fullmoon day of the Vissakha month on the Sala grove outside the city of Kusinagara, where King Malla ruled.

Life of BuddhaThe Parinabbana

Life of Buddha The Maha Parinibbana


592. The brilliant lamp was extinguished! But the lamp of Kharma, this is, the Buddha’s teaching, exists forever and will carry thousands and thousands of people in our world across the stream of life and death to Nirvana. That night Ananda and Aniruddha spent the night discussing the Dharma,

Life of Buddha The Maha Parinibbana

Life of Buddha Informing The Mallas

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593. Then Aniruddha sent Ananda to the Mallas to inform them that the Buddha had died. The Mallas were distraught, but eventually they gathered together in the sal grove to pay their respects to the Buddha with perfume, incense, dancing and music. In fact they set up tents and kept putting off the cremation until a full week of dancing and singing in honor of the Buddha had gone by.

Life of BuddhaInforming The Mallas

Life of Buddha Unenlightened Monks Cried

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594. After the Buddha's passing away, the unenlightened monk disciples, hearing of the Buddha's passing away, break out crying. Maha Kashyapa was traveling to Kushinagara with a large company of 500 monks. On the road a wandering ascetic informed them that the Buddha had passed away seven days before. In his hand was a mandarava flower and he held up the mandarava flower to show them, saying he had picked it up from the place where the Buddha had passed away. According to legend, the mandarava flower is a flower from heaven which only flowers and blossoms at times when portentous things are happening in the world.

Life of Buddha Unenlightened Monks Cried

Life of BuddhaVen Maha Kashyapa & Ven Subhadra

Ven Maha Kashyapa & Ven Subhadra (not the same Subhadra as the Buddha’s last disciple)

595. As before, the unenlightened monks were distraught and Maha Kashyapa consoled them just as Aniruddha had consoled the monks at Kushinagara. One unenlightened monk named Subhadra (not the same Subhadra as the Buddha’s last disciple) exclamed: “Enough, friends, do not weep and wail! We are well rid of the Great Ascetic. Now we can do what we wish” (Ibid, p. 274). One has to wonder why someone like Subhadra would have even joined the Sangha in the first place with an attitude like that.

Life of BuddhaVen Maha Kashyapa & Ven Subhadra

Life of Buddha The Cremation

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596. At the end of the week they prepared the body, just as the Buddha had told Ananda. Now the Mallas discovered that they were unable to light the funeral pyre. Aniruddha informed them that the gods were preventing them from doing so until Mahakashyapa arrived. When Mahakashyapa did arrive he circumambulated the funeral pyre three times, then he uncovered the Buddha’s feet and paid homage with full prostrations. When this was done the pyre ignited by itself.

Life of Buddha The Cremation

Life of Buddha After The Cremation


597. Once the body was cremated and the fires had burned out, the Mallas honored the relics for another week with more music, singing, dancing, and the offering of incense and garlands. Once the word got out that the Buddha had passed away and that his relics were in Kushinagara, the surrounding kingdoms all laid claim to the relics.

Life of BuddhaAfter The Cremation

Life of Buddha Dona Divided The Relics

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598. The people of Kusinagara at first refused and the dispute even threaten to end in a war. Under the advice of a wise man named Dona, the crisis passed and the relics were divided among eight great countries. (Ibid, p. 276) namely (1) King Ajatashatru of Magadha, (2) the Licchavis, (3) the Shakyans, (4) the Bulayas of Allakappa, (5) the Koliyas of Ramagama, (6) the brahmin of Vethadipa, (7) the Mallas of Pava, (8) The people of Kusinagara.

Life of Buddha Dona Divided The Relics

Life of Buddha Building The Ten Stupas


599. Dona kept the urn for himself. A little later the Moriyas of Pipphalavana requested remains so that they too could build a stupa, but the remains had already been divided. Instead they had to be content with the embers from the fire. Then each of those who had received relics and also Dona and the Moriyas built their stupa so that there were ten in all. These would become centers of pilgrimage where people could come and honor the Buddha.

Life of BuddhaBuilding The Ten Stupas

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Footprint In Bodhgaya

http://www.jyotisrivastavaphotography.com/2013-india-trip-bodhgaya-part-i-mahabodhi-temple/

600. One of the early representations of the Buddha in the anticonic (no statues) stage of Buddhist art. The Buddhapada, the Buddha’s Foot-print, are highly revered in all Buddhist countries, especially in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Symbolizing the grounding of the transcendent, feet have been objects of respect in India long before Buddhism. According to Buddhist legend, after the Buddha attained enlightenment, his feet made an imprint in the stone where he stepped.

Life of Buddha Buddha’s Footprint In Bodhgaya

http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/symbols/buddhapada.htm

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