Posted on 11/15/2017 5:51:22 AM PST by mairdie
Human remains buried by a pair of monks in China over a millennia ago are claimed to belong to Buddha.
Believers say the 2,000 pieces of cremated bones belonged to Siddhartha Gautama, whose teachings became the foundations of the Buddhist religion.
The cremated bones were found in an ceramic box with an inscription claiming they belong to Buddha, who is believed to have died 2,500 years ago.
The box was found in Jingchuan County, China, alongside more than 260 Buddhist statues.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
From what I can remember, Buddha, himself, never claimed divinity.
Singular = millennium. Plural = millennia.
Almost certainly after. It’s “The Middle Way!”
I think it was pre-TV. That character was in a strip or two.
The animated series was pretty good.
Agreed. Daily Mail frequently has grammatical problems.
You do bring back memories of high school Latin.
Bellum
Belli
Bello
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Bello
Bella
Bellorum
Bellis
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ping if you’re still around
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 .... "
Never read that. Thank you. Is there a good source for some of his better quotes?
The article says that the remains had been cremated.
The chances of there being any usable DNA in the bones is nil.
I don’t know. The whole thing reminds of the so-called “Ossuary of James,” later proven to be a complete hoax.
A sinner as all humans. Christ after his crucifixion is said to have descended into Hell to offer salvation to those prior dead who would believe. Hopefully the Buddha was one of those who accepted His sacrifice.
Buddha was an inspiration to millions, as was Christ. And both deserve praise for living a life that was so inspiring.
Buddha Quotes:
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
I recommend "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" (just search on Amazon) which is a collection of talks the founder gave while teaching in the 70's ... it's very simple and not 'facts about religion' but Zen in daily practice - how to clear your mind, what's the nature of the mind, what's the nature of reality, how our mistakes about that nature cause us and others suffering. You can read it in 2 page increments ... it's not factual ... it's interactions with students.
https://cambridgezen.org/
The Buddha so far as I have seen, and if you don't accept the junk that's been piled on it or the left interpretations, was correct about everything. He also said 'If you don't experience what I am teaching as true, then throw it out.'
I know that many here, especially traditional Christians, often find Buddhism to be awful and bad and evil. They may only have contact with perverted versions of it, i.e. not original scripts. You have to be careful with Eastern stuff, not because in itself it's bad ... just that ... you have to go to the source. Just like there are a ton of fake Christian's peddling falsehood, same with Buddhism which has unfortunately been embraced most strongly by the left.
What I like most about Buddhism is that it seems kind and it contains much common sense. I catch flies and take them outside. A reverence for life is central to my world philosophy. I’m awed by the spark of life that appears in every creature, people just being one example.
Understand what you mean about added fluff. And I do like going direct to (translated) sources. U of Chicago was big on teaching from original sources. The only texts we had were in math and physics and chemistry, as I remember. Other than that, we had collected papers to study Mendel and such. I still have all my old collections of Greek and Roman philosophers from Western Civ.
Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion, and a noble, humane philosophy at that. We should fully expect that its best insights, correctly understood, are compatible with Christianity, correctly understood. The same can be said of the classical Greek and Roman philosophical tradition, which brings us straightaway to the Rome & Jerusalem synthesis.
Thanks Genoa. Gautama Buddha was the fourth of this era, the fifth is to be Maitreya Buddha. Each era has 1000 buddhas. Dang, that's a lot of Buddhas.
“over a millennia”
Illiterate scum.
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