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Earliest shrine' uncovered at Buddha's birthplace
BBC News and Environment ^
| 25 November 2013
| James Morgan
Posted on 11/26/2013 3:47:06 PM PST by ThanhPhero
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To: ThanhPhero
Not really interested in that stuff but “gave birth while hanging from a tree” was not that unusual for the time with difficult births. Apparently they did stuff like that all over Asia.
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posted on
11/26/2013 3:50:22 PM PST
by
GeronL
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To: ThanhPhero
Every year thousands of Buddhists make a holy pilgrimage to Lumbini - long identified as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha ... Good Buddhists don't worship Buddha, nor do they pray to him. He's not a god.
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posted on
11/26/2013 4:02:26 PM PST
by
Usagi_yo
To: Usagi_yo
“Good Buddhists don’t worship Buddha, nor do they pray to him. He’s not a god. “
You are correct. I know several Chinese who believe in Buddhism as a way of life, and believe in Jesus as their savior. They say the two paths are in perfect concordance.
To: GeronL
Gravity is very helpful in delivery. Hanging on to a tree branch, if one is available, makes perfect sense.
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posted on
11/26/2013 4:15:03 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
To: Usagi_yo
Accepting his Academy Award for
The Killing Fields in 1985, Dr. Haing S. Ngor thanked "my god, Buddha".
This may have been a figure of speech to avoid a lengthy explanation where one wasn't appropriate.
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posted on
11/26/2013 4:32:57 PM PST
by
ExGeeEye
(The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
To: Tax-chick
I have seen them do that in some of the historical Korean dramas
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posted on
11/26/2013 5:02:38 PM PST
by
GeronL
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks ThanhPhero.
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posted on
11/26/2013 5:36:13 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: GeronL
Conception involved a magical elephant.
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posted on
11/26/2013 6:18:55 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
probably more than I need to know already
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posted on
11/26/2013 6:20:23 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: GeronL
“One night, Queen Mayadevi dreamed that a white elephant descended from heaven and entered her womb. The white elephant entering her womb indicated that on that very night she had conceived a child who was a pure and powerful being. “
http://www.aboutbuddha.org/english/life-of-buddha.htm/
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posted on
11/26/2013 6:23:28 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Tax-chick
Didn’t work too well, she died 7 days after the birth.
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posted on
11/26/2013 6:24:19 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
A queen, well that couldn’t possibly be self-serving
Like Mohmmad making up a faith to get his troops fired up as he ravaged the region
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posted on
11/26/2013 6:34:42 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: GeronL
The queen didn’t make up any faith.
Nor did she talk to a burning bush.
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Usagi_yo
Good Buddhists dont worship Buddha, nor do they pray to him. Hes not a god.
You are correct. I know several Chinese who believe in Buddhism as a way of life, and believe in Jesus as their savior. They say the two paths are in perfect concordance.
* * *
Buddhism, as I understand it, is indeed a philosophy and approach to living, rather than a religion. However, it is widespread in the East, and has tended to mingle with the local earlier religion as it spread from place to place, resulting in some really interesting (and not terribly germane or appropriate) legends about the Buddha.
For instance, it mingled with the Bo religion in Tibet, resulting in some very colorful rituals featuring devil costumes and such, which has nothing at all to do with anything the Buddha ever said or did, but a lot to do with the earlier indigenous animistic religion.
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11/26/2013 10:13:18 PM PST
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
To: Usagi_yo
depends on which buddhist denomination: Theravada do not, but many Mahayana sub-sects do
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posted on
11/27/2013 2:01:38 AM PST
by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: GeronL; driftdiver
In fairness, the Buddha categorically said that people were not to worship him and if you read his teachings, he did not believe in the need to worship gods or indeed in their presence (when asked, he refused to answer).
all the tales of the Buddha's pre-births etc. arose later
what IS definite is that he was a prince
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posted on
11/27/2013 2:15:34 AM PST
by
Cronos
(ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: driftdiver
Oh, well. They didn’t have antibiotics then.
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posted on
11/27/2013 2:18:20 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
To: James C. Bennett; GeronL
No she didn’t talk to a burning bush. She was impregnated by a magical white elephant.
She also died shortly after the birth.
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posted on
11/27/2013 6:27:40 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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