Buddhas
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Sculptures:
"Let your thoughts be like clouds, and let them pass across the sky with the wind."
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About Buddha:
The Buddha denotes one who has achieved complete enlightenment and who represents the highest level of existence. He is usually portrayed with a number of distinguishing features, such as lengthened ear lobes and a úrná, or raised spot between the eyebrow's from which emanates a ray of light to illuminate the world. Sometimes the Buddha is also found with an usnísa, this is a bump on top of the head, which accommodates the superior wisdom acquired by the Buddha upon attaining enlightenment.
Gautama Buddha was born in 563 B.C. in northeast India. The Buddha was the son of the King of the Sakyas. Suddhodana, who ruled at Kapilavastu, on the border of Nepal. His mother was Queen Maya. He was named Siddhartha. He lived amidst the pleasures of palace life and at age 16 he was married to Princess Yasodhara. They had a son named Rahula. After seeing a decrepit old man, an invalid, and an ascetic beggar, he learned of suffering and decided to embrace asceticism. Soon afterwards, at age 29, Siddhartha left the palace and his family and went to a hermitage where he became the monk Gautama, or, as he is still called, Sakyamuni (The ascetic of the Sakyas). One day, meditating under a sacred fig tree, he attained perfect illumination (Bodhi). He had become a Buddha. From there on he traveled and preached for 44 years what was to become what some might call one of the main religions of today's world. He died at Kusinagara at age 80.
The word Buddha comes from a Sanskrit/Pali word that means one who has awakened or been enlightened. In the context of Indian religions it functions as a title for one who has been enlightened. The teachings of Buddha developed in India as a reformative outgrowth of Hinduism and provided an extensive cosmological picture, a basis for ethical behavior and a self-empowering philosophy on life.
Statues of the Buddha and his innumerable incarnations, called bodhisattvas, symbolize self realization.
Buddha is a title of office much like the word king, a word that denotes both the person who holds the office and also a larger conceptual framework, something some would call kingship or kinghood. It is not a word exclusive to the "Buddhist Religion" by any means.
Many persons have been so described but Buddhists use it in a strong sense to mean a person or persons who have had a powerful and transformative effect upon culture and history.
