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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…

  • Great World Empire of the Past… and the Global Kingdom Promised to Come

    Genghis Khan (born Temüjin, 鐵木眞; 1162 –1227 CE) was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. This empire, after his death, became the largest single landmass empire in history. One of the most important conquerors of all time, he was a brilliant and ruthless military campaigner whose armies conquered across Asia, west into…