Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka
Buddha Life Story Thangka

Buddha Life Story Thangka

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Description

In the Life of Buddha paintings, we can see the historic phases of the Siddhartha Gautama both before and after his enlightenment. The painting starts from the top and moves towards the anti-clockwise direction. The story starts from the top left and ends right at the center where he reaches the stage of Nirvana.

Gautama Buddha was born in 563 BCE. also known as Siddhartha Gautama or simply Buddha. Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is recognized by Buddhists as an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering.

Accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral traditional first committed to writing about 400 years later.

The Painting Describes 12 different phase of Buddha’s life. They are:

His Promise to Take Birth in the Human Realm

Buddha Holding a Lotus Promises to Manifest Himself on the Earth

Queen Maya Devi’s  Dream

Maya Devi’s dream

The Birth of Buddha

The birth of Buddha.

Accomplishment in Worldly Arts and Athletics

Accomplishment in Worldly Arts and Athletics

 

The Skillful Conduct of Worldly Affairs

The Skilful Conduct of Worldly Affairs

The Four Encounters

The Four Encounters

The Renunciation of Worldly Life

The first thing Gautam Buddha did after leaving his father’s palace was severe his long and beautiful hair with his princely blade.

The Six Years of Austerities

Wandering in his search for enlightenment, Buddha came to a pleasant hermitage by a lovely stream, where, for six years, he joined five mendicants in a way of discipline based on progressively severe fasting.

The Defeat of Mara

The Defeat of Mara

The Proclamation of the Teachings

The Proclamation of the Teachings

The Descent from the Trayatrimsa Heaven

The Descent from the Trayatrimsa Heaven

 

The Passages into Parinirvana

Buddha Entering Nirvana

 

1 review for Buddha Life Story Thangka

  1. Laura Cannon

    This was a Christmas gift for my young 20 yr old niece. On receipt, it was packaged well. Upon opening the box, the item was the exact color & design as depicted. My niece was happy & to me that was a plus. I was satisfied with this purchase.

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