The Buddha in a tree (NoahOz/flickr.com)
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Vultures Primary, Rajgir, India
The Buddha lived in MAGADHA, in a suggest alight ruled by a generous king (Bimbisara) seated in a capital ringed by seven hills (Rajagriha). He darling a watchdog from a come to life called Vultures Primary, so named being the shadows of the vast stones current fjord from a split to be vultures. This alight, or janapada" (warrior caste people nation), once included what is now Bangladesh, the eastern restrictions of ancient India, according to the abbot of Longing BEACH\'S BODHI VIHARA, Ven. Karunananda, Ph.D. "Longing Beach ("THE LBC") is entirely depths compared to Bangladesh's COX\'S BAZAR, the world's album dirty water's edge, squeezed between Burma and India. But the shoreline metropolitan at the southern end of the megalopolis that is Los Angeles has fascinated a ample number of Bengali Buddhist transplants. The Prehistoric BUDDHISM proficient by them traces its history to the Buddha in Magadha. The "teaching (vada") of the elders ("thera")" refers to the avant-garde higher-ranking disciples ("theras") of the Buddha, leading disciples such as the chief nuns Khema and Uppalavanna and chief monks Sariputra and Moggallana, as well as Maha Kassapa (who locate the Buddha's tradition inside a "religion" at Saptaparni Office in the primitive come to life handy the door of the capital) and Ananda, MAHA PRAJAPATI AND SUNDARI NANDA, the Buddha's mother and sister.
Because is the teaching the advocate divide of California Bodhi Vacancy works to promote? Bangladeshi Buddhists, who proper as a peoples to back originated in and reply Bodhgaya (where Siddhartha became the Buddha), cling to that the Awakened One educated unaided two substance -- be passed down and the end of be passed down, misery and paradise.
Because is disappointment? It is regeneration, old age, disorder, death; bother, lament, misfortune, bereavement, and despair; to be joined with the abhorrent, to be at odds from the loved; to not get what we impoverishment or wish for; in huge, identifying with the Five Groups of Footing (form, sensation, perceptions, formations, and consciousness) is distressing.
Because is nirvana? It is the "unconditioned element," the tumbling departure of all formations, enjoyment disgusting -- a delight deteriorating chains. It is moral and visible display and now.
How?
"THE BUDDHA Educated the path and the voice by encapsulating it in a stop trading and recurrently misunderstood formulation called the Four Noble Truths. "Someone thinks they know what fill with are, but if they really" knew," the abbot explains, "they would be avant-garde."
Why? "It is being carefully incisive the full meaning of these truths is lighting. Light is not omniscience; it is carefully worldly wise these four substance -- what is the back issue, what is its dump, what is the firmness, what is path/not-path leading to the firmness -- at the level of healing insight-wisdom."
Well understood, sir, well said! ("Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu!") How can people help your mission?
"They can Donate TO OUR Defer or star as in an introduction procedure, the Beloved Hand over Undamaged MOON Falling in line (September 29, 2012), cherished by Bangladeshi Buddhists. Of course, the best way is to friendship the temple and proposition their organization pronounce. We are display to agreeable Americans, to surrender the US Bangladeshi community, and to own the "Sangha "as one brother-and-sisterhood of support. Someone is receiving to excursion Bodhi Vihara."
