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The Abhayamudra "gesture of fearlessness" [5] represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. In Theravada Buddhism it is usually made while standing with the right arm bent and raised to shoulder height, the palm facing forward, the fingers closed, pointing upright and the left hand resting by the side.
The 80 minor characteristics of the Buddha are known to be enumerated a number of times in the extant Āgamas of the Chinese Buddhist canon. [17] According to Guang Xing, the 80 minor marks are related to the 32 major marks, and are merely a more detailed description of the Buddha's bodily features. [17]
The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.
The dharmachakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्र, Pali: dhammacakka) or wheel of dharma is a symbol used in the Indian religions.It has a widespread use in Buddhism. [1] [2] In Hinduism, the symbol is particularly used in places that underwent religious transformation.
Buddhism by country. Buddhism portal. v. t. e. The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. [1] It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. [2][3] It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school.
The legendary Buddha's Palm is the most powerful skill in the kong-woo (martial artists' community) that a fighter can learn. A long time ago, Lung Kim-fei used the skill to defeat Tin Cam-kiuk, and had since retired from the kong-woo. Lung laid down a family rule, forbidding his descendants from learning the skill, and hid the Buddha's Palm ...
The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, [2][3] and possibly the oldest Sanskrit manuscript of any type related to Buddhism. [4][5][note 1] The manuscript was found in 1906 in the form of a pile of more than 1,000 palm leaf fragments in the Ming-oi, Kizil Caves, China during the third ...
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