Captions needed for the Pictorial Biography of Buddha

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Captions needed for the Pictorial Biography of Buddha

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Hi,

I am across these in the web. They consist of 33 images which depict the life of the Buddha.

For some pictures, I couldn't find a related incident in the life of the Buddha. Can any provide the correc event/caption denoted by these pictures ?

I will start only with the first one. :-)

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The Gods requesting the Bodhisattva Shvetaketu in Tushita heaven, for descending to the earth.
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yo dharmaṁ paśyati, sa buddhaṁ paśyati
One who sees the Dharma, sees the Buddha

na pudgalo na ca skandhā buddho jñānamanāsravam
sadāśāntiṁ vibhāvitvā gacchāmi śaraṇaṁ hyaham

Neither a person nor the aggregates, the Buddha, is knowledge free from [evil] outflows
Clearly perceiving [him] to be eternally serene, I go for refuge [in him]
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some of them are pretty obvious. They were posted on another website as a thinly-disguised link to another commercial site selling watches, leather goods and jewellery.
I'm afraid I deleted the lot.
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Waow. These pictures are soooo beautiful :o
I definitly need to print one or two of them for my altar haha...
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Yes, I've seen these before when they were sent to me as an email by a friend.
Not really to my taste. However, happy if others find them inspirational.
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Gawd awful junk.
Yuk!
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Awesome! *Bookmarked*

Thanks for posting!

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Vinodh,
These are beautiful which site is it from? I'd like to know more about the artist.
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I really enjoyed this set of pictures, so far I think it's one of the closest visual portrayal of the Buddha's life for my "style". Great work, looking forward for similar stuff. And haha, the way these ladies are drawn certainly plants other ideas and desires as well in a man's head than attaining nibbana.. :D
But I'm a man of delusions and fine with that atm. :) Does anyone know similar - or not so similar, but illustration of his life? Sounds as an interesting project to do, probably it has been done a couple of hundred times already, so if anyone know a good collection maybe for these please share it here.
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Two fast comments about the pictures.

This one imo is quite misleading at some level - tell me if thats not so - I have no idea what it's supposed to say but it appears saying something like strict practice and lord buddha will eventually lead you to the company of these ladies or maybe what would make sense is that enlightenment is even better than a hot bath with the gurlz below -- probably the monkey has got also a central symbolical role in the image, I cant decrypt that tho - all together I have the definite impression they want to get people hooked in buddhism by sexuality.... which simply goes against all there is. Are they devas by the way?
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This one just cracks me up all the time I remember it, I showed these images to a friend and his first association was about this picture "And look, it's like that book by Orwell... yeah, the 1984!" Haha, cant argue with that. :)
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Wow, gaudy religious art.

The Buddha must've been pretty handy; his head also functions as a flashlight.
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Viscid wrote:Wow, gaudy religious art.

The Buddha must've been pretty handy; his head also functions as a flashlight.
:)

He also must have been about 10 to 15 feet tall, according to some of those pictures (even though the Suttas indicate about 6 feet tall). A more "human-like" appearance would have been better, imo, but still pretty nice looking art.
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Almaril,
The story behind the beautiful ladies and the monkey on the stump can be found here.
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Greetings Pilgrim,

Thank you for reminding us that these pictures have their origins in the Suttas.
In this case the Sutta references is: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A good challenge to match the rest to Suttas...

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Mine, mine... :-)

Nice pictures, I guess there is some influence of Khmer or Thai in it.

Thanks for sharing the ORIGINAL :-)
Just that! *smile*
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1. The Gods requesting the Bodhisattva Shvetaketu in Tushita heaven, for descending to the earth.
2. Queen Maya's dream as the bodhisatta chooses rebirth in her womb
3. Prince Siddhatta is brought back to the palace and brahmins predict his future
4. Asita predicts he will be a Buddha to the consternation of King Suddhodana who prefers him to be a world monarch
5. Siddhatta attains the Jhanas sitting under a rose-apple tree during the ploughing festival
6 Siddhatta wins the sports competition for the hand of his cousin Princess Yasodhara
7.He marries Princess Yasodhara
8. Marriage celebration? (uncertain)
9. Siddhatta sees the four sights ( according to commentaries, not sutta)
10. He finds the dancing girls in sleep to be disgusting and turns away from sense pleasure.
11.He takes a last look at his wife and son Rahula before leaving the palace secretly ( according to commentaries, not sutta)
12. He flees the palace on his horse Kanthaka and with his servant Channa.
13. He renounces the world and leaves his clothes to Channa to take back to the palace. A deva offers him robes
14. Upon hearing the lute player, he stops practice of the austerities. As a result, his 5 companions leave him.
15. Near Bodh Gaya, Sujata offers him milk rice.
16. Mara attempts to stop his quest for enlightenment? (uncertain)
17. On the night before the Great Enlightenment, he recalls his past lives.
18. The daughters of Mara tempt him
19. The Great Enlightenment
20. Devas come to worship and celebrate his achievement? (uncertain)
21. Mucalinda the serpent shelters the Buddha during a storm.
22. He descends from Tavatimsa heaven after teaching the Abhidhamma to his departed mother.( not sure in commentaries or suttas)
23. Sakyan princes renounces en masse ( uncertain)
24. He who attends on the sick attends on me ~ Mahavagga
25. The Buddha visits Kapilavastu. Yasodhara waits for him.
26. Cunda offers thee last meal. Buddha suffers from stomach pains.
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27 Buddha ordains his son Rahula in Kapilavastu
28. Buddha teaches the first sermon , Dhammacakkapavathanna sutta to the ascetics.
29 . ??no idea??
30. The Buddha visits Kapilavastu.
31.Nanda sutta
32. Magha Puja day-when 1,250 arahants spontaneously assembled on full moon day in February http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... satha.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
33. Maha Parinibbana
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