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According to tradition, Buddha prefers the "fingers" of the fruit to be in a position where they resemble a closed rather than open hand, as closed hands symbolize to Buddha the act of prayer. In China, the Buddha's hand fruit is a symbol of happiness, longevity, and good fortune. It is also a traditional temple offering and a New Year's gift.
The early texts also depict the Buddha's explanation for becoming a sramana as follows: "The household life, this place of impurity, is narrow – the samana life is the free open air. It is not easy for a householder to lead the perfected, utterly pure and perfect holy life."
In Buddhism, a sotāpanna or śrotāpanna (Chinese: 入流; pinyin: rùliú, Chinese: 须陀洹; pinyin: xū tuó huán; Burmese: သောတာပန်; Tibetan: རྒྱུན་ཞུགས་; Wylie: rgyun zhugs [1])—interpreted variously as a "stream-enterer", "stream-winner", [2] or "stream-entrant" [3] —is a person who has seen the dharma and thereby has dropped the first three ...
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 13" x 9" baking pan with butter, then line with parchment, leaving an overhang on 2 long opposite sides. Grease parchment with butter. In a medium heatproof bowl ...
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Bodhi Tree. The Bodhi Tree ("tree of awakening" [1] ), also called the Mahabodhi Tree, Bo Tree, [2] is a large sacred fig tree ( Ficus religiosa) [1] [3] located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment or buddhahood circa 500 BCE under this tree ...
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Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म, Pāli: kamma) is a Sanskrit term that literally means "action" or "doing". In the Buddhist tradition, karma refers to action driven by intention ( cetanā) which leads to future consequences. Those intentions are considered to be the determining factor in the kind of rebirth in samsara, the cycle of rebirth.