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  • The Bodhisattva Coming for All Peoples

    Mahanaya, or Great Vehicle, Buddhism arose from the Mahāyāna Sūtras and their emphasis on the bodhisattva path. Gautama Buddha had previously taught the Middle Way of monastic discipline. He built the Middle Way from the Five Precepts as the path to escape samsara. This is accepted as Theravada, or the Way of the Elders. The difficulty…

  • The Promised King: Coming In Signs of ‘Seven’

    The number ‘seven’ has commanded great reverence and mystical wonder across cultures and nations since ancient times, especially in Asia. Buddhist tradition states that Siddharta Gautama, after achieving enlightenment by the Bodhi Tree, spent the next seven weeks in seven locations to consider his enlightenment experience. The Qixi (七夕) festival, held on the seventh day of…

  • Riddle of the New Year’s Full Moon Festival

    The Lantern Festival (元宵節, 元宵节, Yuánxiāo jié), or Shangyuan Festival (上元節, 上元节, Shàngyuán jié) concludes the Chinese New Year celebrations. The Lantern Festival is celebrated on the first full moon in the new year of the traditional Chinese calendar. The Chinese calendar, and other Asian calendars, combines lunar months and solar years into a lunisolar calendar.…

  • The Sacrifice Making the Mountain Sacred for All

    Mountains create ideal places for sacred sites, serving either as pilgrimage destinations or temple locations. The remoteness of a mountain from everyday life and its height give devotees a sense of nearness to heaven. Therefore, almost every nation has built their national and religious centre on a mountain. Consider some of the following examples: Asian Sacred…