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| | Buddha Purnima 2005, Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Birthday 2005 |
 | | Buddha Jayanti or also known as Buddha Purnima is the most sacred festivals of Buddhist. |  | | Buddha Purnima 2005, Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Birthday 2005 |  | | Lord Buddha is considered the ninth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu (Preserver in the Hindu Holy Trinity of Creator-Preserver-Destroyer). |
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| | Buddha Purnima, Buddha Purnima Festival, Buddha Purnima India, Festival of Buddha Purnima, Buddha Purnima Tourism, ... |
 | | The Buddha is regarded as the ninth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. |  | | Buddha Purnima, Buddha Purnima Festival, Buddha Purnima India, Festival of Buddha Purnima, Buddha Purnima Tourism, India Tourism |  | | From Gaya, the Buddha proceeded to Sarnath near Varanasi. |
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| | Buddha Purnima: Buddha's Birthday Celebration |
 | | Buddha Purnima is one of the most holy (perhaps the most holy) days in the Buddhist calendar. |  | | In addition to the three-fold significance (Buddha's birth, enlightenment and attainment of nirvana) of Buddha Purnima, it is also believed that on this same day Buddha's wife (Yashodara), his horse (Kantaka) and his charioteer (Channa) were born. |  | | Special charity is a hallmark of Buddha Purnima. |
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| | Buddha Purnima: Message of peace - www.phayul.com |
 | | Buddha Purnima is the greatest festival of the Buddhist community and is being observed with due solemnity almost all over the world. |  | | Buddha in his first sermon to the monks asked, "Go forth, O Bhikkhus, for the good of the many, for the happiness of the many." This message is wide, loud, and broad and to all and meant for the cause of happiness of all living beings, irrespective of caste, creed and race. |  | | Buddha Purnima is a reminder of what Lord Buddha preached for the noble cause of the many. |
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| | Buddha Jayanti in India - Buddha Poornima celebration - Buddha Purnima in Bodh Gaya |
 | | Buddha Jayanti in India - Buddha Poornima celebration - Buddha Purnima in Bodh Gaya |  | | It was on Buddha Poornima that he attained enlightenment and ultimately after preaching the five principles of life and the path of eight-fold truth for long, he attained 'Nirvana' or left the mortal world on this day itself. |  | | It is said that it was on Buddha Poornima, the full moon night in Vaisakha (according to the Hindu calendar that usually falls in April or May), Lord Buddha was born. |
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http://www.festivals.indobase.com/buddha-jayanti
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| | Buddha Purnima,Buddha Jayanti,Buddha Purnima Festival,Buddha Purnima India |
 | | Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima is marked as the most important day, commomerating the three most significant events in the life of Gautama Buddha that occurred on the same day. |  | | Surf India » Festivals of India 187; Buddhism &; Buddha Purnima |  | | After years of study, meditation and sacrifice, he is known to have found the Nirvana and became the Buddha or the completely enlightened. |
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| | Buddha Purnima - Buddha Purnima Information. |
 | | Buddha's overflowing love for the downtrodden and destitute acted as one of the greatest factors for social harmony and justice to the weaker sections in the society. |  | | Buddha Gaya where he attained his supreme enlightenment has to this day remained one of the most sanctified places of pilgrimage for the entire Hindu World. |  | | And Buddha himself has been revered as an Avataar of God by Hindus. |
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| | Carolina Buddhist Vihara |
 | | The Buddha was not a god, a messenger of a god or a son of a god. |  | | The Buddha was born, attained the Enlightenment and passed away on the Vesak Day. |  | | With the attainment of the Buddha hood He came to be the teacher for gods and humans, a super natural person. |
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| | idurga.com - Buddha Purnima |
 | | by monks and devotees, and the worship of the statue of Buddha |  | | In the monasteries of Sikkim, the lamas are engaged in recitations of the scriptures from early morning lamps in front of the statue of the Buddha. |  | | According to a Tibetan belief, Buddha Kashyapa had prophesied that he would be reborn in human form. |
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 | | The Avatara of Lord Buddha by Suhotra Swami: |  | | The Mahasamghika sect declared all forms of Buddha besides the lokottara (transcendental form, or dharmakaya) to be magical or ficticious (their view of the historical Buddha). |  | | In Mahayana Buddhism are three conceptions of Buddha's identity: Dharmakaya, the Nirvana-being or body; the Sambhogakaya, the heavenly being (body); and the Nirmanakaya (the human being). |
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| | Buddha Purnima |
 | | 1) " Buddha" -- in the term Buddha Purnima |  | | Technically, a Buddha is one whorediscovers the Dharma (that is, truth; the nature of reality, of the mind, of theaffliction of the human condition and the correct "path" to liberation) by Enlightenment,comes to be after skillful or good karma (action) is perfectly maintained and allnegative unskillful actions are abandoned. |  | | Buddha (Sanskrit, Pali, others:literally Awakened One, Enlightened One, from the Sanskrit :"√budh", to awaken) can refer to the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, or to anyone who has attained the same depth and quality of enlightenment. |
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| | Little Buddha, Buddha Purnima Legends, Great Buddha, Buddha Nirvana |
 | | The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama in 544 BC, to King Shuddhodhana and Queen Mayadevi, rulers of Lumbini, Nepal. |  | | Little Buddha, Buddha Purnima Legends, Great Buddha, Buddha Nirvana |  | | His birth, enlightenment and death (nirvana), all happened on a full moon night in April/May. This makes the day - called Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti - all the more sacred for Buddhists. |
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http://festivals.iloveindia.com/buddha-purnima/buddha-purnima-legends.html
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| | BodhgayaNews |
 | | It was an imaginary fiction to claim that Buddha was an avatar of Vishnu. |  | | Because the Buddha himself did not believe in Avatars and did not announce that he was himself an Avatar so to call him an Avatar was an imaginary story. |  | | It is notable that on the day of Buddha Purnima Festival the Vishva Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and the Shiv Sena unfurled a banner in Bodhgaya saying 'Buddha is an Avatar of Vishnu'. |
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| | Tibet, a journey into the cultural soul of an ancient civilization |
 | | Buddha Purnima, or Wesak as Tibetans call it, is the holiest day for Buddhists and just three years ago in Ladakh, I had participated in the celebrations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. |  | | In the inner shrine, we witnessed the disrobing and repainting of the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, a ritual that happens on Buddha Purnima. |  | | Soon afterhis death, the original statue was replaced by the image of the Buddha given to him by his Chinese wife, Wenchung Kongjo. |
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| | Buddha and His Gospel of Love |
 | | The teachings of Buddha are lofty, sublime and sacred. |  | | Buddha was resting, but he overheard the words of his disciple. |  | | The principal teaching of Buddha is 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharma' (non-violence is the highest Dharma). |
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| | Maha Ganapati Temple of Arizona - Newsletter |
 | | Celebrations of Buddha Purnima have been extensively written about in poems and novels and depicted in paintings because Buddha Purnima is not only a day of rejoicing; it is also a day for reflection on the life and teaching of one of the greatest teachers the world has ever known. |  | | Buddha is regarded by some sects of Hindus as an incarnation of Vishnu, or even as a Hindu. |  | | On Buddha Purnima, Buddhists in the Indian sub-continent drink kheer, which they also share with the poor. |
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| | Buddha Purnima - Rituals and Celebrations (Part 1) - Sify.com |
 | | In Sri Lanka all the houses are brightly illuminated. |  | | Monks and devotees meditate and worship the statue of Gautam Buddha. |  | | Buddha Purnima (Buddha Jayanti) is the birth anniversary of the Buddha which falls on the full moon day in the month of Vaisakh (April/May). |
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| | Article - Vesak Day - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved |
 | | This Buddha idol is bathed in a ritual commemorating the Buddha's birth. |  | | Vesak is also known as Visakah Puja or Buddha Purnima in India, Visakha Bucha in Thailand, and Wesak in Sri Lanka. |  | | Vesak or Buddha Day is a time for Buddhists around the world to reflect on the Buddha's gift to humanity. |
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| | MANTRA ON NET : Festivals Of India: Buddha Purnima |
 | | Gautama, the Buddha was born in 544 BC in Lumbini, Nepal. |  | | The Buddha, who is considered the ninth avatar of Vishnu, reached Nirvana also on the full moon day of Vaishakh. |  | | Therefore Buddha Purnima marks the three major events in the life of this great apostle of peace. |
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| | Vesak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The word Vesak itself is the Sinhalese language word for the Pali word "Visakha." Vesak is also known as Visakah Puja or Buddha Purnima in India, Visakha Bucha in Thailand, Waisak in Indonesia and Vesak in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. |  | | It commemorates the birth, Enlightenment and passing of Gautama Buddha on the one historical day, the first full moon day in May, except in a leap year when the festival is held in June. |  | | At the Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple in Singapore, devotees donate money to the temple and in exchange are allowed to place gold leaf onto a small statue of Buddha. |
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| | Buddha - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Buddha |
 | | Both Buddha and Lao Tzu are poets, one listening to the rhythm of infinite sorrow, one to the rhythm of infinite joy. |  | | During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the people, but in his own NE Indian dialect; he also encouraged his monks to propagate his teachings in the vernacular. |  | | 1960); A. Foucher, The Life of the Buddha (1963, repr. |
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| | The Hindu : Karnataka / Udupi News : Buddha in sand |
 | | The Hindu : Karnataka / Udupi News : Buddha in sand |  | | Purshottam Adve, artist, sculpted the statue of the serene Buddha seated in a "Padmasana" with both his hands in the elucidation posture. |  | | Murari Ballal, Rajyotsava Award winner and writer, who came to see the image, said Buddha Purnima had a special significance as it marked not just Buddha's birth anniversary but also the day he got enlightenment. |
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| | Buddha Purnima - 23rd May, 2005 |
 | | Thereafter, Siddhartha came to be known as Buddha, or the Enlightened one. |  | | The Buddha Purnima celebrations at Brindavan (Bhagawan's ashram at Whitefield, Bangalore) this year was jointly organized by devotees from Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Taiwan. |  | | It was on this day that Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born as Prince Siddhartha at Lumbini in Nepal in 560 B.C. It is also the day when He attained enlightenment at Gaya in India, after years of search and enquiry into the causes and remedy for sorrow in the world. |
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| | Bodhgaya - Where Buddha attained enlightenment |
 | | Buddha Gaya is also home to the ancient temple of Buddha. |  | | The Bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment is considered to be the among the oldest and the most venerated tree in the world. |  | | The third most sacred pilgrimage center for Buddhists is Sarnath or Isipatan where Buddha delivered his first sermon, and the fourth is Kushinara or Kashia in Uttar Pradesh, where he finally gave up his mortal self. |
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| | Buddhism Festivals,Buddhism in India,Festivals of Buddhism |
 | | A religion and philosophy, Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the "Buddha". |  | | Buddha attained a higher state of enlightenment after six years of rigorous tests including self-mortification and long period of fasts. |  | | Buddhism has emerged as a universal religion since its origin 2500 years ago. |
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| | Buddha Purnima Bhajan in Sri Lanka - 2005 |
 | | The Buddha Poornima Bhajan, Pooja and Wesak Bhakthi Gee (Buddha Poornima Carols) were |  | | Buddha Purnima Bhajan in Sri Lanka - 2005 |
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| | Buddha Purnima |
 | | The Buddha achieved enlightenment and Glory on the day of his birth. |  | | His birth, enlightenment and death (nirvana), all happened in the month of Vaishakh, on a full moon night in April/May. This makes the day - called Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti - all the more sacred for Buddhists. |  | | According to legend, Siddhartha's wife Yashodhara, his charioteer Channa, his disciple Ananda and his horse Kantaka were also born on Buddha Purnima day. |
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| | Buddha Purnima, Buddha Jayanti, Festivals of India, Indian Festivals, About India |
 | | uddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Buddha, is widely celebrated, on a full moon night in April/May. The Buddha was born on the full-moon day in the month of Vaisakh in 563 BC. |  | | It is also believed that Yashodara, the Buddha's wife, his charioteer Channa and even his horse Kantaka were born on the same day. |  | | Buddha Purnima, Buddha Jayanti, Festivals of India, Indian Festivals, About India |
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 | | The Buddha was born in the royal clan of an Aryan tribe, Sakyas, in East India in the 6 |  | | Scriptural accounts of the life of Buddha mention that his greatness was foretold in a dream of his mother in which she saw a white elephant holding a lotus enter her womb. |  | | May. Though it is celebrated mainly as the birth anniversary of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, it is on this particular day that he attained Bodhi (Enlightenment) on the banks of the river Niranjana, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, under a pipal tree (Ficus religiosa), which has since been called the Bodhi Tree. |
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| | Desibuzz.com - South Asian Community Website - Day of strange coincidences |
 | | The 2548th Buddha Purnima was celebrated with much enthusiasm and religious fervour by the Buddhist community on Tuesday. |  | | According to Buddhist legend, Buddha's wife Yashodhara, his first disciple Ananda, his charioteer Channa, and the horse Kantaka which was his companion during his quest for truth of life, were all born on this sacred day. |  | | LUCKNOW : Buddha Purnima, which falls on the full moon night in the month of Vaisakha, commemorates the birth anniversary of Lord Buddha, founder of Buddhism, one of the oldest religions in the world. |
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| | Buddha Purnima and buddhism |
 | | Buddha Purnima is the most sacred day in the Buddhist calendar. |  | | Although Buddhists regard every full moon as sacred, the moon of the month of Vaisakh (April - May) has special significance because on this day the Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and attained Nirvana when he died. |  | | This strange, three - fold coincidence, gives Buddha Purnima its unique significance. |
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| | BodhgayaNews |
 | | Bodhgaya 21 May. Buddha Purnima, [the full moon celebrating the night of Buddha's enlightenment:- PGF] will be celebrated in five nights in Bodhgaya the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. |  | | The New Buddhists will start arriving from the 24th, the Buddha Jubilee is on the 26th. |  | | Every year a Buddha Jubilee program is held by the Mahabodhi Temple Management Committee on the occasion of the forthcoming Buddha Purnima full moon with its main program in the Temple compound. |
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| | LookSmart - Buddha Purnima |
 | | Examine this transcription of a lecture focussing on the birth of Buddha. |  | | Read about some of the celebrations that occur on this day, as Buddhists commemorate Buddha's birth and enlightenment. |  | | Explains the underlying symbolism and meaning of this observance of the Buddha's birthday and enlightenment. |
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| | Poornima - Buddha Purnima |
 | | Devotees of Buddha recite and read the sacred scriptures, observe fast, worship Buddha at home and in temples, and practice charity. |  | | Bhagwan Buddha was born at Lumbini near Nepal, attained enlightenment at Uruvela, near Bodh Gaya, in Bihar and finally moksha at Kusinagar, in the country of Mallas, now in Uttar Pradesh on the very same day, i.e., Vaisakh Purnima (the full moon day of Vaisakh; April-May). |  | | The association of the same day with three great events of Buddha's life has made it the most important festival of the Buddhist world. |
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| | Lord Buddha : Buddha Purnima : Buddha |
 | | The birth anniversary of Lord Buddha is celebrated all over India both by the Mahayana and the Hinayana Buddhists as the Buddha Purnima. |  | | After years of salvation, in Gaya he attained 'Nirvana' and was known Buddha or the enlightened one. |  | | He made up his mind to leave his family and palace in search of the 'Nirvana' or the ultimate knowledge. |
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| | Attain God's Grace through Sacrifice and Love |
 | | Buddha taught that Nirvana could be attained only by cultivating Samyak Drishti (sacred vision), Samyak Vak (sacred speech), Samyak Sravanam (sacred listening), Samyak Bhavam (sacred feeling) and Samyak Kriya (sacred action). |  | | Siddhartha, who came to be known as Gautama Buddha, undertook various spiritual practices in order to realize his true Self. |  | | Buddha undertook various types of spiritual practices, but ultimately left all of them. |
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 | | Bodhgaya 21 May. Buddha Purnima will be celebrated in five nights in Bodhgaya the site of the Buddha's enlightenment. |  | | Anand the National Secretary of the All India Monks Association after Buddha Purnima is wrong according the Buddhist scholar P.C. Ray and the VHP. |  | | Bodhgaya, 26 May. On the occasion of Buddha Jubilee in the sacred land of Bodhgaya a Multi-faith Prayer meeting for world peace was organised. |
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 | | Moreover it was apparent, on the occasion of Buddha Purnima, from some slips of paper being circulated by those Ambedkarites who had come that the peaceful site of Bodhgaya with its message of spreading peace and love throughout the world would in coming days become completely without peace. |  | | Surai Sasai, national leader [of the All India Monks Association] in a sharp address to the assembled Buddhists on the occasion of Buddha Purnima on the Kalacakra Maidan gave an extensive account of the form of the campaign being launched to liberate the Mahabodhi Temple. |  | | Disproving the administrations claim that the celebration of Buddha Purnima had passed peacefully the various controversial acts of the New-Buddhists gave a covert message of something else again. |
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| | India4u - Festivals |
 | | Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Buddha is widely celebrated, on a full moon night in April/May. Buddha was born on the Full Moon day in the month of Vaisakh. |  | | Celebrations of Buddha purnima have been extensively referred to in various poems and novels. |  | | This unique three-fold coincidence, bestows significance to Buddha Purnima. |
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http://www.india4u.com/festival/buddhist.asp
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| | Joyous Buddha Purnima |
 | | In relation to Buddhism it specifically means the spiritual abundance of the Buddha, a treasure that did not diminish, however much of it he gave away. |  | | The question still remains of the association of these eight symbols with the Buddha's actual physical body. |  | | An ancient text called the Heap of Good Fortune Sutra (Aryamangalakutanama-mahayanasutra), while addressing the Buddha, has this to say on the issue: |
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| | Significance of Buddha Purnima in Buddhism |
 | | What Buddha and His glorious significance is that he is an extraordinary man and also Arahan. |  | | The Dhamma discovered by the Buddha for the benefit of all beings, for the happiness of all beings and for the achievement of all beings are always guiding us to the path of liberation from sufferings. |  | | Having fulfilling the thirty Paramitas, Upaparamitas and Paraparamitas, through incalculable icons the Bodhisattva, would be Buddha, it was finally on happy Vesakha Full Moon Day that he become incomparable supreme Enlightened One (Sammasambuddha) at the age 35, under the Bodhi-Tree at Buddhagaya. |
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| | Topic: Cancellation of Buddha Purnima 2003 |
 | | The ever compassionate Lord Buddha Sai bestowed a boon upon we devotees to commemorate the sacred festival of Buddha Purnima (Vesak) in the divine presence for the past seven years. |  | | In the case of Buddha Purnima, Buddhist authorities around the world will be given access to information sufficient to make responsible judgements about the issues. |  | | As such devotees and especially Buddhists may please organise the festival in their respective countries focusing on one of Bhagavan's main mission 'unity of faiths' and increased understanding of Swami's divine discourses on Buddhism. |
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