FOUR BRAHMA VIHARAS

"Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed by a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?
"Loving-kindness can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed: this is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Compassion can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.
"Onlooking equanimity can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed.

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PAJAPATI The First Buddhist Nun

   Maha Pajapati Gotami Theri was Gautama Buddha’s aunt, stepmother, and first female disciple. She became a highly realised practitioner, and played a fundamental role in the history of Buddhism. It is thanks to her initiative and persistence that women gained the freedom to be ordained. 

   Born into the aristocracy of the Koliyan clan in India, she and her elder sister Maya were given in marriage to Suddhodana, King of the Sakyas. Maya was made queen and gave birth to a son, Siddharta Gautama, who was to become the Lord Buddha, but she sadly died only a week after He was born. And so it was up to Pajapati, herself already breast-feeding her infant son Nanda, to assume the role of queen and to foster her cherished sister’s newborn. Queen Pajapati nursed Gautama and raised Him as if He were her own child. When He was twenty-nine, Gautama came to realise the futility of His mundane life, and became resolute to discover the true meaning of existence and a conclusive solution to the suffering of beings.

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THE SAKYA TRADITION OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM

   The Sakya tradition is one of the four major religious traditions that existed in Tibet. It rose to play a significant role in the development and spread of the new Tantras that came to Tibet in the 11th century. During the 13th and 14th centuries, the holders of the Sakya tradition were also the principal political powers that ruled over Tibet . Although its political stature gradually declined over the centuries, emphasis on its unique religious traditions continued to be nurtured and sustained.

   Consequently the Sakya tradition strengthened and flourished and produced many great and distinguished practitioners, saints, and scholars. The origins of the Sakya tradition are closely connected with the ancestral lineage of the Khön family: a family which itself originated from celestial beings. Beginning with Khön Konchok Gyalpo (1034-1102), the founder of the Sakya tradition, the lineage continues to be unbroken to this day.

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Manipulasi Berita Rohingya

PENTING..!!!

Luangkan waktu untuk membaca.

Konflik etnis Rohingya semakin meruncing ke konflik agama. Berita-berita yang disebar semakin mengintimidasi kalangan Buddhis. Konflik berawal dari 3 orang pria etnis Rohingya yang memperkosa seorang gadis Buddhis Rakhinge. Kemarahan warga pun memicu terjadinya bentrokan antara kedua etnis.

Berita2 di dunia maya, bahkan di unjuk rasa di Indonesia sendiri menggunakan gambar2 yang dimanipulasi sehingga berakibat terjadinya intimidasi terhadap kalangan Buddhis di beberapa daerah.

Berikuta adalah pelurusan gambar2 yang digunakan oleh beberapa kalangan untuk memecah belah kerukunan beragama.

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