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1 posted on 11/15/2017 5:51:22 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Awesome!


2 posted on 11/15/2017 5:54:54 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: mairdie

Unlike Jesus, Buddha is still dead.


4 posted on 11/15/2017 6:00:32 AM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: mairdie

Beautiful! About the bone chips, almost every temple worth its salt has a Buddha relic and most of them are some sliver of bone, etc., footprints are popular as well.


5 posted on 11/15/2017 6:00:38 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: mairdie

WOW!


7 posted on 11/15/2017 6:03:10 AM PST by FES0844 (G)
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To: mairdie

By all accounts, the Buddha lived and died in India, on the other side of some very high mountain peaks. I doubt his ashes made it to China. And from what I’ve read about Buddhism, the Buddha would laugh at the idea of anyone keeping or revering his ashes.


18 posted on 11/15/2017 6:26:07 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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22 posted on 11/15/2017 6:34:47 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Singular = millennium. Plural = millennia.


23 posted on 11/15/2017 6:41:34 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: SunkenCiv

ping if you’re still around


27 posted on 11/15/2017 6:47:45 AM PST by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: mairdie
One thing I love about the story of the Buddha is that ... he didn't die a weird mystical death. He either choked on a piece of food or got food poisoning, died a normal man, and said any man is capable of seeing what he saw.

No religion should care less about the possible location of the remains, except to the extent those followers are confused about what the Buddha taught about the nature of reality.

No self and no attributes, baby!

"... Shariputra all dharmas are marked by emptiness they do not appear or disappear are not tainted or pure do not increase or decrease therefore in emptiness no eyes no ears no nose no tongue no body no mind no sight no sound no smell no taste no touch no object of mind no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness no ignorance and also no extinction of it and so forth until no old age and death and also no extinction of them no suffering no origination no stopping no path no cognition also no attainment with nothing to attain .... "

29 posted on 11/15/2017 7:04:32 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: mairdie

“over a millennia”

Illiterate scum.


40 posted on 11/15/2017 9:40:42 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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