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I read a magazine about Buddha Ji Gong, the enlightened mad monk. Does any Buddhist or Daoist know who he is? or Where to find resources about this very fascinating deity? I would like to know more about him than just the quarter page article that gave a bare synopsis of this deity.

2006-08-10 03:23:57 · 2 answers · asked by Sheena 3 in Society & Culture Mythology & Folklore

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/daoji lists the history 0f the monk you asked about.
wish you luck at this site

2006-08-10 03:43:09 · answer #1 · answered by Janis G 5 · 0 0

Our human physique is a consequence of previous karma. In Buddhism you have 2 distinctive varieties (tiers) of Nirvana: a million. Nirvana with the rest, that's once you're enlightened and fully give up producing the karma that reasons the suffering and the cycle of loss of life and rebirth in Samsara (the different of Nirvana), yet nonetheless have the human physique that's a consequence of before produced karma. This replaced into the Nirvana that the Buddha manifested below the Bodhi tree on the age of 35, till now he began to coach his insights and handle the Buddhist community of clergymen and nuns. 2. Nirvana without the rest, that's once you die (once you're already enlightened) and go away the human physique at the back of, as a result getting rid additionally of the consequence of before produced karma (i e the physique and your human ideas applications noticeably linked to that actual existence). that's what the Buddha manifested on the so called Parinirvana (= superb or entire Nirvana), which replaced into his 2nd of actual loss of life on the age of eighty. the 2nd whilst the ideas leaves the physique at the back of at loss of life is (additionally for unenlightened beings) defined interior the Buddhist scriptures as whilst a customer tests out from a lodge room after a quick stay to proceed the return and forth to the subsequent lodge (the subsequent physique). Or as once you alter outfits. After the loss of life of the Buddha, small parts of his cremated physique have been unfolded everywhere in the then Buddhist international, and for each place the place they have been saved, a so called stupa replaced into geared up - that's a monument symbolizing the corporeal presence of the Buddha. Later, stupas persevered to be geared up regardless of in the event that they did not incorporate somewhat remainders of the Buddha, nonetheless, however, symbolizing the actual presence of the Buddha.

2016-10-01 21:47:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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