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thai-buddha_06.jpg06 Thai Buddha Image2172 views06 Thai Buddha Image
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06guanyin2.jpgProfile of Quan Yin2153 viewsPortrait of Quan Yin (Godess of Mercy) in Profile
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Ksitigarbha02.jpgKsitigarbha Bodhisattva022149 viewsKsitigarbha Bodhisattva or in Chinese: Ti Tsang P'usa
Ti Tsang P'usa is an extremely popular Bodhisattva among the Chinese and Japanese Buddhists.
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Bhutan002.jpgBhutan - Buddhist Himalayan Kingdom (11) 2142 viewsIn 2005 the Australian monk Ven S Dhammika was invited to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and spent ten days visiting the countries monasteries, shrines and temples. We present some of the pictures he took while in this rarely visited land and hope you enjoy them.
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Amithaba008.jpgAmithabha Buddha082135 viewsAMITABHA: Buddha of Boundless Light of the Western Paradise
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03white_lotus.jpgWhite Lotus 032124 viewsWhite Lotus 03
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Ksitigarbha01.jpgKsitigarbha Bodhisattva012115 viewsTi Tsang P'usa: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
Ti Tsang P'usa is an extremely popular Bodhisattva among the Chinese and Japanese Buddhists. 'Ti Tsang', meaning 'Earth-Store' is a direct translation of the Bodhisattva's name KSITIGARBHA in Sanskrit. Among the countless Bodhisattvas in the universe, he and three others have firmly captured the hearts of the Mahayanists. These four main P'usas or Bodhisattvas are depicted in the Chinese Buddhist Pantheon and they represent four basic great qualities:
KUAN SHIH YIN as Great Compassion;
WEN SHU as Great Wisdom;
PU HSIEN as Great Love and Perfect Activity;
TI TSANG as Great Vow to help and to deliver all beings.
His greatest compassionate Vow being: "If I do not go to the hell to help the suffering beings there, who else will go? ... if the hells are not empty I will not become a Buddha. Only when all living beings have been saved, will I attain Bodhi."
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Amithaba004.jpgAmithabha Buddha042109 viewsAMITABHA: Buddha of Boundless Light of the Western Paradise
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lohan04.jpgLohan: The Bharadvaja NANDIMITRA2099 viewsLegend has it that the first portraits of the 18 Lohans were painted by a Buddhist
monk Guan Xiu, in 891 A.D. Guan Xiu lived in Chengdu, the capital of a small
kingdom, the Former Shu, formed at the decline of the Tang Dynasty in what is
today's Sichuan Province. He was adept at the scholarly pursuits of painting,
calligraphy and poetry.
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21_tara.jpgThe 21 Taras (21)2093 viewsThe 21 Taras [Tibetan style] (Tibetan, Sgrol-ma)
It was not until the adoption of the Yogachara system, taught by Asanga in the fourth century AD, that the feminine principle began to be venerated in Mahayana Buddhism. Around the sixth century, the goddess Tara was considered as a Sakti of Avalokitesvara (sometimes as his wife).
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