Ancient buddha

  Mogalmari or moghalmari is a Buddhist monastic site of the early medieval period in  west bengal's paschim medinipur district in india. A Buddhist monestry dated between 6th to 7th century( post Gupta period / pre pala period). It is said  that moghalmari Buddhist vihar is quite similar with Nalanda mahavihara of Bihar and udaigiri and lalitgiri in orissa. Main gate Chinese traveller xuanzang( more widely identified as huen Tsang), who visited india in the 7th century CE, referred to the existence of ' ten monasteries' within the limits of tamralipta(modern day tamluk in adjoining purba medinipur district). However, he did not refer to any specific name or location. The excavation of this monastery was began in 2002-2003 by professor Ashoka dutta of kolkata university. A site covers an area of some 4300 square yards and is considered the largest and oldest archeological excavation in west bengal. By the side of the entrance into  Mughalmari from the side of Dantan  i

Bodhi tree                       Buddha grew up and experienced a comfortable youth. But he continued to ponder about religious questions, and when he was 29 years old, he saw for the first time in his life (an old man, a sick person, a corpse and an ascetic)  what became known as the four sight in Buddhism. Shortly after, Prince Siddhartha woke up at high and decided to leave the palace behind in the middle of the night against the will of his father, to live the life of an wandering ascetic, leaving behind his just-born son Rahula and wife Yasodhara. He travelled to the river Anomiya with his charioteer Chandaka and horse Kaṇṭhaka.  Buddha cut his hair According to Buddhist text, when buddha left his palace, he shaved his head, clothed himself in humble garments, and, in his hermitage, he undertook severe  austerities including food starvation and mortification. Bodhi tree In 528 BCE, after six year of learning under different teachers , prince Siddhartha arrived on the outskirt of s

According to Buddhist text and tradition maitreya buddha is believed to be bodhisattva who is to come in the future just like sakyamuni buddha did in the past. He will achieved nirvana and teach the people of earth about Dhrama just like predecessor  bodhisattva did. According to  Buddhist text Maitreya buddha will be the successor of living buddha i.e Gautam buddha. The prophecy of Maitreya buddha coming back to the terrestrial world is accepted by most of the major Buddhist school of Buddhism in different Buddhist countries.  The name maitreya is taken from the Sanskrit world maitri meaning kindness, love, friendliness or goodwill. Thus maitrya has been referred to as the ‘loving one’ or ‘friendly one’.                         According to the tradition of Buddhism Gautam buddha prophesied to his disciplines that after the planet had been steeped in a period of darkness, lord buddha would be descend to earth to preside over an  age of enlightenment. Buddhist today await maitreya'

Buddha's relics  According to Buddhist tradition, buddha died at  Kusinara  (present-kusinagar,india) which became pilgrimage center.  Ananda protested the Buddha's decision to enter Parinirvana in the abandoned jungle of kusinara of malla  kingdom. The buddha however is said to have reminded Ananda how kusinara was a landonce ruled by a rightous wheel- turning king and the appropriate place for him to die. Buddha's relics in india  The Buddha's a then asked all the attendant bhikkhus to clarify any doubts or question they had and cleared them all in a way which others could not do. They had none. According to Buddhist scriptures, he ten finally entered parinirvana. The Buddha's final words are reported to have been: “All composite things (sankhara) are perishable. Strive for your own liberation with diligence”. (in pali:‘vayadhamma sankhara appamadena sampadetha’)                                                      His body was cremated and the relics were place