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| | Buddhist Art [Pacific Asia Museum] |
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http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/buddhism/html/glossary/parin.htm
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| | The Buddha attains parinirvana, a modern Tibetan thangka |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/bce_499_400/thebuddha/death/death.html
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| | Newsletter - 3/30/04 - Nirvana in Buddhism |
| | Epithets of nirvana in Buddhism include "the free," "the immortal," and "the unconditioned." Nirvana is attainable in life, and the death of one who has attained it is termed parinirvana, or complete nirvana. | | | As with Hindu nirvana, souls that have achieved parinirvana are free of the cycle of reincarnation. | | | The Theravada school of Buddhism was the first one to emerge after the Buddha's parinirvana (Death). |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udnl2/nl033004.html
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| | Understanding Islam |
| | Parinirvana is the ceasing of the physical form of the historical Buddha. | | | Vesak Day is the day that Buddhists throughout the world celebrate the birth, Awakening and pariNirvana of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. | | | so the Parinirvana is the day when the historical Buddha Shakyamuni's physical form ceased to appear in our world system. |
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http://www.understanding-islam.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1481&whichpage=2
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| | Final Questions of Ananda |
| | This is as [ordained] at the time of the Buddha's Parinirvana. | | | This phrase shall also be spoken at the beginning of the scriptures of all of the buddhas of the future. | | | All of the Buddhas of the present, at the very end, at the time of their Parinirvana,-- they too instruct that this phrase should be spoken. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/FinalQuestion.htm
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| | Parinirvana World Encyclopedia, India encyclopedia, Featured Articles, Cover Stories, World wide Informations @ ... |
| | The parinirvana of Gautama Buddha is depicted in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. | | | In Buddhism, parinirvana (Sanskrit -- Pali: Parinibbana -- Chinese: è¬æ¶
æ§; Pinyin: bÅ niè pán) is the final nirvana, traditionally understood to be within reach only upon the death of someone who attained complete enlightenment. | | | It is the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice and implies a release from the cycle of deaths and rebirths as well as the dissolution of all mental aggregates (form, feeling, perception, mental fabrications and consciousness). |
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http://www.mirchigold.com/index.php?title=Parinirvana
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| | Pudgalavada Buddhist Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The Parinirvana of the Buddha will then be his transition from a local existence supported by the aggregates to a non-local state which is unfathomable. | | | A canonical text of the Mahayana explicitly describes the non-local form of the Buddha after his death as his “eternal body,” which is said to be like the fire that has not gone north, south, east or west, but is simply extinct. | | | Nirvana must be quiescence in the sense in which it is the “cessation of suffering,” not as a state that arises at the moment of enlightenment and is completed at death, but as an already existing reality whose attainment puts an end to suffering and the coming and going of Samsara. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/pudgalav.htm
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| | Buddhist Scriptures: First Rehearsal of the Tipitaka |
| | After the Final Extinction (Parinirvana) of the Buddha, and the cremation of his body, the community of monks chose five hundred Arahants ('worthy ones', 'perfected ones') to work together to compile the doctrine and the discipline, in order to prevent the true doctrine from being submerged in false doctrines. | | | The First Rehearsal is recorded to have taken place during the rainy season of the first year after the parinirvana, the latter event being the era from which the Buddhists have reckoned their chronology. | | | We have naturally ignored them in investigating the teaching of the Buddha, but they are of much interest in themselves, as literature, and in connection with the popularisation of Buddhism in the centuries following the parinirvana when in fact many of them were composed. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/s_collect.htm
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| | Tashi Deleg! - The Padma Samye Ling Monthly Bulletin |
| | These successors, starting with Kasyapa, carried and propagated the exact teachings as spoken by Lord Buddha; they are the root and foundation of Buddhism and the cause of its development. | | | In holding with this view we are featuring the biographies of the seven great patriarchs who carried on the Buddha's Teachings immediately after his parinirvana, the first step in the preservation of an immense collection of doctrines. | | | At his parinirvana he left no remainders, and reached the ultimate enlightenment. |
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http://www.padmasambhava.org/webapps/padma.apoye.com/tashideleg/index.jsp?storyId=legsthongpa
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| | Rev. Doami's February 2005 |
| | Technically, the latter event is called “parinirvana,” or complete extinction, because nirvana, when used to mean enlightenment in this live body, refers to the extinction, or blowing out the fires, of bonno, or insatiable desire, which is the cause of our suffering. |
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http://www.bca-ocbc.org/Messages/Doami/DoamiFeb2005.htm
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Parinirvana Day |
| | Buddhists celebrate Parinirvana Day by meditating or by going to Buddhist temples or monasteries. | | | The Paranibbana Sutta describes the Buddha's last days, and passages from it are often read on Parinirvana Day. | | | As with other Buddhist festivals, celebrations vary throughout the world. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/holydays/parinirvana.shtml
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| | Zenshuji Classes--Dr. Kato's Lecture Series |
| | Where nirvana means enlightenment, parinirvana means the superior and perfect enlightenment, which refers to the death of Buddha. | | | This chapter is Dogen's interpretation of the Buddha's final teachings before his parinirvana. | | | 2) During the last three months of Buddha life as he was moving toward his parinirvana, he organized his teachings and prepared them for others to follow in the future. |
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http://www.zenshuji.org/classes_kato0201.html
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| | Parinirvana Day |
| | The dates of Buddhist festivals and the way they are celebrated vary from country to country, and between Buddhist traditions. | | | Parinirvana Day: Holy days and Festivals in Buddhism | | | Buddhists celebrate the death of the Buddha, because they believe that having attained Enlightenment he achieved freedom from physical existence and its sufferings. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/parinirvana_day
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| | Holy Sites of Buddhism: Kusinara - place of the Great Passing Away of Buddha. |
| | The Buddha's last days are described in the Pali text called the Great Parinirvana Sutra (Parinirvana meaning "completed nirvana"). | | | The Buddha's living nirvana, achieved during enlightenment, at death transforms to nirvana without human residue. | | | Holy Sites of Buddhism: Kusinara - place of the Great Passing Away of Buddha. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/kusinaga.htm
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| | Stupas and Prayer Wheels - Pagan |
| | The name “Parinirvana” comes from the word for when Buddha passed from this world. | | | This particular style of stupa is one of the eight forms built by Tibetan Buddhists and is sometimes also called a Dharmaraja Ashoka Stupa. | | | They see the stupa as dharmakaya which means “the body of the doctrine.” The stupa is considered to be a living embodiment of Buddha’s teachings and looking at or meditating on the monument or building itself is able to help the observer move towards nirvana. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art22207.asp
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| | Great Parinirvana Sutra |
| | To meet with the birth of a Buddha and have faith in the Dharma one hears [from him] is again difficult. | | | In that land there is a Buddha called Shakyamuni, a Tathagata, an Arhat, a completely and perfectly Enlightened One, who is perfect in wisdom and conduct, well gone, a knower of the world, unsurpassed, a tamer of men, a teacher of men and gods, and a World Honored One. | | | It must be a portent to all in the ten directions that his parinirvana is at hand. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/ParinirvanaSutra.htm
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| | Understanding Buddist symbols and rituals |
| | Before the Buddha’s parinirvana, He speaks of 4 holy places worthy of Buddhist pilgrimage, which are: | | | Below is a diagram depicting a schematic summary of Buddhist Symbolism (more prevalent after the Buddha’s Parinirvana). | | | Ananda then suggested to plant a bodhi tree as a gateway to the Jetavana Monastery and the Buddha gave His consent, saying "
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http://www.abm.ndirect.co.uk/leftside/arty/symb1.htm
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| | The Life of Buddha and the Art of Narration in Buddhist Thangka Paintings |
| | The image of the dying Buddha is not supposed to evoke sadness as much as a feeling that all beings have the potential to become enlightened and attain release from the sufferings which characterize samsara. | | | His serene, composed, and restful demeanor (he is actually slightly smiling) is meant to communicate his attainment of the highest state of Indian meditation, that of a deep, quiet and blissful sleep known in Sanskrit as 'turiya.' This is precisely the reason why 'Parinirvana' is thought of as the 'final' or 'highest' nirvana. | | | Towards midnight of the same day, the event known in Buddhist terminology as the Parinirvana, or "Final Nirvana," took place. |
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http://www.sarimagic.com/article/lifeofbuddha
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| | The events leading up to his, birth, enlightenment and parinirvana, are told in twelve acts of Buddha. | | | The Buddha went off to meditate under a tree laying on his right side, in the lion position, he passed into Parinirvana. | | | There he gave teachings and told the assembly to ask what ever questions they had now. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rings/novice-buddest/Bubbha.htm
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| | Religious cults and sects - Zen |
| | Like all Buddhists, the ultimate goal of a Zen Buddhist is to reach parinirvana (extinction), but unlike other Buddhists, the immediate goal of the Zen Buddhist is to experience satori. | | | Through the continued practice of meditation, Zen Buddhists can experience satori many times, each bringing them into deepening levels of self-awareness. |
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http://www.countercult.com/z01.html
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| | Buddha's Enlightenment day |
| | The Buddha's birth and passing away (parinirvana) are also celebrated on this day. | | | In the Tibetan calendar (which is a lunar calendar) the Buddha's Enlightenment and parinirvana will be celebrated on the full-moon of Thursday 3rd June this year. | | | We shall be holding our Annual Sangha Celebration on Saturday and Sunday (May 29th and 30th) thinking of it as a celebration of the Buddha's birth, Enlightenment and parinirvana as well as a celebration of our Sangha and of the mutual support we get from practising together as a community. |
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http://www.ahs.org.uk/?action=article&ID=823
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| | Zenshuji Classes-Dr. Kato's Lecture Series |
| | Interestingly, the Lankavatara Sutra cited the Buddha's last utterances differently as, "From the time of my enlightenment to the time of my parinirvana, I have not uttered a word." This may mean that the Dharma cannot be spoken by words and that letters cannot describe the actual experience of his enlightenment. | | | I shall soon enter into parinirvana (death)." These are words spoken by the Buddha that appear in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. | | | It may also mean that he couldn't help everyone on the earth to attain nirvana. |
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http://www.zenshuji.org/classes_kato0501.html
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| | History of Buddhism |
| | Soon after Buddha's death or parinirvana, five hundred monks met at the first council at Rajagrha, under the leadership of Kashyapa. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhahist.html
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| | ZCLA - Water Wheel, May/June 2002 |
| | Shakyamuni Buddha is lying in the center as he passes into Parinirvana, his disciples are gathered around him weeping, and the animals, the trees, and the celestial figures that mark his passing are there as well. | | | On the wall, we have the Parinirvana scroll of Shakyamuni Buddha. | | | February 15th is the day we mark his passing from this world. |
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http://www.zencenter.org/news/SanghaLetters/mayjun02/sl_1.html
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| | Aryaloka Buddhist Center FWBO - Programs: Parinirvana Evening - Feb 22, 2005 |
| | The Parinirvana is a major Buddhist holiday in which we commemorate the passing away of the Buddha Shakyamuni into final nirvana. | | | It's an occasion for contemplating death and impermanence, as well as honoring those who have died in the last year. | | | FWBO - Programs: Parinirvana Evening - Feb 22, 2005 |
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http://www.aryaloka.org/programs/events/F-Parinirvana.html
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| | As predicted by the Buddha, the Great Guru Padmasambhava appears in order to transmit the Mantrayana teachings known as the Inner Tantras: Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga. | | | He begins a long lineage of Vidyadharas (Knowledge Holders) who embody and transmit the esoteric teachings quietly for many centuries in India. | | | 28 Years After the Parinirvana of the Buddha |
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http://www.nyingma.org/yd/cgth2.html
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| | Nirvana |
| | The ultimate goal of Buddhism is realization of nirvana; what happens to a man after his parinirvana cannot be explained, as it is outside of all conceivable experience. | | | As a negation of (i.e., the whole phenomenal world), nirvana is impossible to define directly; it can only be experienced or realized. | | | When a person who has realized nirvana dies, his death is referred as his parinirvana, his fully passing away, as his life was his last link to the cycle of death and rebirth (samsara), and he will not be reborn again. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/N/Nirvana.htm
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| | Parinirvana of Lopön Chechoo Rinpoche |
| | In general, the practice of guru yoga is the supreme method for opening to the masters blessing. | | | Following this tradition, during the week of the residents retreat we held a Tsog-puja every evening, based on the guru yogas of Milarepa and Karmapakshi. | | | However, the first day of retreat was shaken by the news of the parinirvana of Lopön Chechoo Rinpoche. |
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http://www.dhagpo-kagyu.org/anglais/evenement/lop-set.htm
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| | Timeline of Buddhist history |
| | The Buddhist Canon as it exist today was settled at this Council and preserved as an oral tradition. | | | Reign of Indian Emperor Asoka (272-231) who converts and establishes the Buddha's Dharma on a national level for the first time. | | | (486) after the Parinirvana*, under the patronage of King Ajatasattu. |
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http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Buddhism/timeline_of_buddhist_history.htm
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| | Notice how this is in harmony with all of the above definitions of a bodhisattva. | | | Then it became a person who sought enlightenment for himself and others outside of the monastic life. | | | If Sukhavati is Parinirvana, however, and bodhisattvas are able to be reborn there then a bodhisattva cannot refuse to enter Parinirvana. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/buddhism/0000.bdsmpld.cf
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| | 166 years after Parinirvana 11 texts, 108 pages | | | 5 years after Parinirvana 14 texts, 547 pages and innumerable gTer-ma texts | | | 29 years after Parinirvana 3 texts, 18 pages |
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http://www.nyingma.org/yd/cgtauth1.html
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| | BBC - Schools - Nirvana Day |
| | It is also known as Parinirvana and is celebrated by some Buddhists on February 15th. | | | Please note that the BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/religion/buddhism/nirvana.shtml
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| | Parinirvana of CTR |
| | We will begin at 4:00pm on Sunday, April 3th with the chanting of the Sadhana of Mahamudra and the Sun of Wisdom Sadhana, then offer a great feast of the best foods, liquors, fragrances and all means of sensory delights that everyone is encouraged to bring, (call Marie Endres at 530-756-2771 to coordinate). | | | Dear Sangha, Family, Friends, new practitioners, old practitioners, never even thought of practicing practitioners, come one, come all to the Celebration of the Parinirvana of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. |
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http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/hmchenry/parinirvana05.htm
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| | Naropa Weekly- News and Information for the Naropa Community |
| | It is traditional in Tibetan Buddhism on these days to practice and to read or listen to the teachings of the teacher. | | | Sunday April 4 is the seventeenth anniversary of the death or parinirvana of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. |
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http://www.naropa.edu/news/040104/weekly040104_1a.html
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| | OccultForums.com - Parinirvana Day |
| | I hope that whatever you do to mark Parinirvana Day goes well. | | | I am taking some Blueberry muffins for the folks in my office | | | To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
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http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=12848
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| | Encyclopedia of Self-Knowledge |
| | "Knowledge of nirvana, the disposition to focus the ten senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, feeling, thought, consciousness, memory and experience upon nirvana, is a part of the growth process which transforms nirvana into parinirvana. | | | "Knowledge of parinirvana, the disposition to focus one's ten senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, feeling, thought, consciousness, memory and experience upon parinirvana, is a part of the process which creates knowledge of the self." |
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http://encyclopedia-self-knowledge.com
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| | Know that such a place is indeed a seat for enlightenment: in such places Buddhas find Complete and Perfect Enlightenment, in such places Buddhas turn the Wheel of the Dharma, in such places Buddhas enter parinirvana." | | | Then the World-honored One, desiring to proclaim the meaning of this once again, spoke thus in verse: | | | For this reason, after my parinirvana, you should wholeheartedly accept and hold to it, study and recite it, understand and expound it, write it down and make copies of it and, just as you preach it, so practice in accordance with it. |
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http://www.mit.edu/~stclair/Lotus21.html
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| | Yoshiaki Shimizu's Multiple Commemorations: The Vegetable Nehan of Ito Jakuchu |
| | Frequently the artist of these devotional images chooses to use only certain symbols, or some of the imagery, or chooses to combine multiple events into a single image when representing the death of Buddha. | | | This freedom of interpretation revolves around the core story of the death of the Buddha and the mourning of his followers, but the actual depiction is variable and left to the artist. | | | To begin his argument, Shimizu provides ample background information on the tradition of Parinirvana (or Nehan) paintings, including their uses and the flexible tradition of iconographic symbolism employed in these paintings. |
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http://www.etchings.com/erin/files/veggie.html
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| | The Shambhala Arhcives: 2003 Adopt A Tape! |
| | In the 1970s, his was the primary voice to proclaim the dharma in North America in our native language, so courageously and so directly that hundreds of thousands of people heard the noble truth of the Buddha for the first time. | | | April 4th marks the parinirvana of Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala. | | | This year you again have an opportunity to help the Shambhala Archives preserve the voice, and thus the wisdom, of this great man. Parinirvana Day 2003 marks the third year of the “Adopt a Tape” program. |
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http://www.shambhalashop.com/archives/adopt/tape.html
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| | Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's Parinirvana |
| | Khadro Ling, which has over 3.000 butterlamps, welcomes contributions and short written dedications to the offering. | | | The anniversary of his Parinirvana will be commemorated on november 17th with Guru Rinpoche tsogs such as the Shower of Blessings and with a multitude of butterlamps. | | | This has been a period of both saudade for his warm and compassionate physical presence and wonderment at the power of his continuous blessings. |
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http://www.chagdud.org/en/events/parinirvana_rinpoche.htm
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| | Ganden Ngam Cho Celebration & Tara Retreat |
| | Ganden Ngam Cho is the anniversary of Je Tsongkhapa’s parinirvana. | | | His parinirvana is celebrated with prayers and special light offerings. | | | There will be no classes on December 25th, 26th, January 1st and 2nd. |
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http://www.deerparkcenter.org/NewFiles/decinfo.html
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| | Ceremonies |
| | The following ceremonies are observed regularly at the Casa Zen: | | | Buddha’s Parinirvana (on or near February 13)— All-Day sitting or evening zazen which concludes with specialchanting service with account of the Buddha’s Parinirvana. | | | Short Repentance Ceremony; chanting; "incense offering"; taking of the Three Refuges, Three General Resolutions, and Ten Cardinal Precepts. |
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http://www.casazen.org/ceremonies.htm
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| | The Shambhala Archives 1998 brochure |
| | Highlights from 1997, the Year of the Fire Ox | | | Honouring the 10th Anniversary of the Parinirvana of the Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, the Dharma Ocean Society sent a beautiful colour brochure to all members of the Shambhala sangha worldwide. | | | Shambhala centres worldwide helped us to launch our first Parinirvana Day membership and fundraising drive. |
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http://www.shambhalashop.com/archives/brochures/1998bro2.html
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| | Introduction to Buddhism |
| | It is like a last will and testament. | | | The Maha Parinirvana Sutra is generally considered to be an elaboration on the theme expressed more succinctly in The Lotus Sutra. | | | In the T’ien T’ai analysis of the Dharma, The Maha Parinirvana Sutra also is considered to belong to this category. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/tyamashi/relig/lect20.htm
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| | What is Parinirvana & Effector? |
| | from a description of parinirvana & effector and meaning of parinirvana & effector. | | | Outline of the Self ::: The Characteristics of the Self ::: The Effectors of Parinirvana |
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http://selfknowledge.com/dtefop.htm
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| | What is Parinirvana & State? |
| | Find answers about what parinirvana & state is | | | from a description of parinirvana & state and meaning of parinirvana & state. | | | Outline of the Self ::: The States of the Self ::: The State of Parinirvana |
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http://www.selfknowledge.com/dtsop.htm
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