Tag: Buddha's life story

The Story of the Buddha's Sneeze (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 30 May, 2024 - 11:00

Saddhaloka talks about the tradition of storytelling in Buddhism, and recounts some of his own favourites. He is the author of a book of re-tellings of stories from the Pali Canon, the oldest collection of texts about the life and teachings of the Buddha. His obvious love of the tales comes shining through - sit back and enjoy…

From the talk Encounters with Enlightenment given at Padmaloka Retreat Centre, 2001.

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A Natural Unfoldment (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 20 May, 2024 - 11:00

Nagesvara draws out the significance of the episode from the life of the Buddha where he recollects a memory from childhood of natural, spontaneous samadhi. From the talk entitled The Rose Apple Tree, given as part of the retreat series Body of Bliss: ways into Samādhi, Buddhafield, 2021.

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Becoming a Buddha (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Thu, 16 May, 2024 - 11:00

Sangharakshita tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, up to the time of his Enlightenment, drawing out the significance of some of the key events. Here we encounter the Buddha receiving help on the path to Enlightenment. Excerpted from the talk The Way to Enlightenment given in 1972.

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Competition: Help Animate Mara's Army!

By Aryajit on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 19:34

Competition: Help Animate Mara's Army!

By Aryajit on Tue, 5 Mar, 2024 - 19:34

Dear Families,

I’m creating a video about the life of the Buddha.

Support Aryajit’s new animated work: ‘A Brief History of Buddhism in Six Minutes’

One of the most enjoyable parts of creating the video is drawing Mara (the “Lord of Death”) and his army, who try to stop the Buddha gaining Enlightenment by attacking him. I have been drawing beings from indian mythology, like Raksanas and Yaksas, but also skeleton armies, dinosaurs, dragons (as you can see from the attached sketches)...

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Life Story of the Buddha

By jvalamalini on Thu, 14 Jan, 2016 - 13:55

As told by Taranita at our Sangha night on 5 January 2016

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The Tree Shrine at Lumbini

By Dhivan on Tue, 3 Dec, 2013 - 10:34

The Tree Shrine at Lumbini

By Dhivan on Tue, 3 Dec, 2013 - 10:34This is more of an ‘editor’s blog’ than an article or review - I’m using the resources available here on The Buddhist Centre Online a bit more. Dhivan (editor, Western Buddhist Review).

There was some fascinating news last Tuesday 26 November – that archaelogists have uncovered a shrine from the 6th c. bce at Lumbini, the site of the Buddha’s birth. (Here’s a link to the BBC version). It’s not often that archaeology, let...