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For obtaining long life the lamaist ceremony is held in a curious mixture of Buddhism and demons-worship. In the preliminary worship the pills made from buttered dough and the ambrosia brewed from sprit or beer and offered in a skull bowl to the great image of Aparimita the lama then places a vajra on the ambrosia vase which the image of Amitayus holds in its lap. and applies a cord. which is attached to the vajra, to his own heart. the wine in the ambrosia vase is the consecrated and the people partake of it as well as of the sacred pills with the firm convicition that their lives will be prolonged through their faith in Aparimita.

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Siddhartha Buddha

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Siddhartha Buddha | Product Code: 2774 | Price: NPR 5000

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Siddhartha Buddha

Siddhartha Gautam is more familiar with us as Buddha or Gautam Buddha. Siddhartha Gautam was name of Buddha till he attained “bodhi” or enlightenment under a peepal tree (Ficus religiosa). Gautam Buddha was the man behind the religion Buddhism. He was the spiritual leader born in ancient Nepal in Lumbini as a son of chief of Shakya clan Shudodhan and queen Maya of Koliya clan. When Siddhartha was born, the astrologers had made the prediction that he would either be a great king or great saint. With the objective of making him a great king only, his father brought him up in extreme luxury and great comforts. He kept the prince Siddhartha away from agony, grief, sorrow, disease and all similar things that could drag him towards the truth of life that’s sorrow. But he was destined to become far greater being than a great king. During one of his excursions outside the palace, prince Siddhartha saw four things that changed his life completely. He saw a sick man, a dead body, an old man and an ascetic. These four sights shocked Siddhartha and compelled him to think about the reality of life. He became involved in search of truth thereafter. When he realized that while living in a palace and all sorts of comforts he would not be able know the truth, he decided to leave the palace. Thus at the age of 29 he left the palace and moved to the world of reality in search of truth. In Buddhist philosophy this incidence is called “Mahabhinishkraman”. First he tried to practice the method of hard penance along with five other ascetics. But he was not satisfied with its results, he tried other existing methods but could not get satisfied yet with this. He had come to realize that starvation and denying the body leads to yet more pain and suffering rather than resolving it. These episodes however hardened his resolve and he was more determined to know the truth of life and death. Later, at Sarnath near Varanasi on the bank of river Niranjana, Sidhartha sat in the eternal sadhana (meditation), not to rise until the experience of truth under a peepal tree. Finally after the hard concentrated meditation on he dawn of Baisakh Poornima, the day of full moon, Sidhartha accomplished the “enlightenment” or “samma sambodhi”. His companion ascetics became his first disciples and the first sermon which he gave them in Sarnath is known in Buddhist traditions as “dhammachakkapravartina”. After getting enlightenment Sidddartha was known as Buddha or the one who is awake or one who knows everything. The tree sitting under which he experienced the sambodhi is know as “bodhi tree”

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Dipankar Buddha

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Dipankar Buddha | Product Code: 2771 | Price: NPR 50000

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Dipankar Buddha

Dipankara one of the Buddhas of the past, said to have lived on Earth one hundred thousand years.

Theoretically, the number of Buddhas having existed is enormous and they are often collectively known under the name of “Thousand Buddhas”. Each was responsible for a life cycle. According to some Buddhist traditions, Dipankara (also Dipamkara) was a Buddha who reached enlightenment eons prior to Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha. Generally, Buddhists believe that there has been a succession of many Buddhas in the distant past and that many more will appear in the future; Dipankara, then, would be one of numerous previous Buddhas, while Shakyamuni was the most recent, and Maitreya will be the next Buddha in the future.

Chinese Buddhism tends to honor Dipankara as one of many Buddhas of the past[citation needed], which forms with Shakyamuni (Buddha of the present) and Maitreya (Buddha of the future), the Buddhas of Three Times.
Mahayana text named the Sangatha Sutra.

Dipankara is generally represented as a sitting Buddha, but his depictions as a standing Buddha are common in China, Thailand, and Nepal; with the right hand he generally forms a protection mudra (abhaya mudra), and often he forms it with both hands.

He is rarely depicted alone; one of the Buddhas of Bamyan, destroyed by the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001, was said to portray Dipankara. Statues of Dipankara can also be found in the Longmen and Yungang Grottoes in China.

He is generally depicted with two Bodhisattvas, Manjushri and Vajrapani (common in Java) or Avalokiteswara and Vajrapani (common in Sri Lanka); or with the Buddhas who come after him, Gautama and Maitreya.

Prediction

One story recounts a meeting between Dipankara Buddha and Shakyamuni, many lifetimes before Shakyamuni’s eventual enlightenment. When Dipankara told Shakyamuni he would one day become a Buddha, Shakyamuni replied, “I am to become a Buddha, awakened to enlightenment; may you tread with your feet on my hair – on my birth, old age, and death.” Dipankara Buddha then said, “Freed from human existence, you will become an effective teacher, for the sake of the world. Born among the Shakyas, as the epitome of the Triple World, the Lamp of all Beings, you will be known as Gauthama. You will be the son of King Suddhodana and Queen Maya. Shariputta and Moggallana will be your chief disciples. Your caretaker will name as Ananda”

In 45 years life of the Buddha, said almost 554 past life stories, Jaathaka Katha in Sinhalese of himself. Gauthama Bodisatta, a person starts the journey to become a Buddha filling 10 Paramita, was born in the time of Dipankara Buddha, and was rich and gave away all his wealth to become a Monk. It is said that Gauthama Bodisatta received his first Niyatha Vivarana, definite foresighting by a Buddha, from Dipankara Buddha. This encounter, among many other predictions of Shakyamuni Buddha’s future enlightenment, can be found in a

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Amitaus

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Amitaus | Product Code: 1950 | Price: NPR 1200

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Amitaus

Aparimita is the name given to Amitabha in his charactor of bestower of longevity. Aparimita may be turned either a “Crowned Buddha” or a Bodhisattva and is therefore richly clad and wears the thirteen ornaments . His hair is painted blue and falls on either side of his elbows ormay be curiously coiled. He is seated like a Buddha and his hands lie on his lap in “Dhyana Mudra” holding the ambrosia vase, his special emblem. the vase is richly decorated and from the cover fall four strings of beads which represent scared pills. For obtaining long life the lamaist ceremony is held in a curious mixture of Buddhism and demons-worship. In the preliminary worship the pills made from buttered dough and the ambrosia brewed from sprit or beer and offered in a skull bowl to the great image of Aparimita the lama then places a vajra on the ambrosia vase which the image of Amitayus holds in its lap. and applies a cord. which is attached to the vajra, to his own heart. the wine in the ambrosia vase is the consecrated and the people partake of it as well as of the sacred pills with the firm convicition that their lives will be prolonged through their faith in Aparimita.

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