The six realms: the gods (deva), the demigods (asura), humans (manusa), animals (tiryak), hungry ghosts (preta), hell denizens (naraka). Each is manifested by a karmic debt (klesa): as a god (pride), a demigod (jealousy), human (lust), animal (stupidity), hungry ghost (greed), hell-denizen (hatred).

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Art by me

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Can some tell who is this person??I keep seeing his statues in the temple.

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I want to know more about this amazing artwork. I saw it yesterday in a monastery, and it's mesmerizing.

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CT Scan of 1,000-year-old Buddha sculpture reveals mummified monk hidden inside

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A little bit of centering for these hard times.

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Dafo Temple, Zhangye

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consciousness has name and form as its condition

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My local Tibetan Buddhist Monastery.

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Any advice on an altar?

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Buddhist nun and Catholic nun pose for a photo. Same mountain different paths. Peace peace peace

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Radiate boundless love towards the entire world🕉⚛️☯️

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Happy Friday all! I just spent a few hours reorganizing and setting up the altar 🙏🏼

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The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are the foundation of our program, meditation is the heart 🙏

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This is the only Buddha statue I own, I just wanted to share it because it feels peaceful to watch.

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Gautama the Buddha

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I’d like to share a collage I made. It’s called “Anatta”

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Digital drawing of the Vaiduryanirbhasa/ Medicine Buddha Triad

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Happy Chotrul Duchen beings of earth. As we enter into the period of multiplication please be kind to each other. if you can't do that, I beg you to please refrain from negative actions particularly with your words. Please pray for harmony and peace in these volatile times. Thanks.

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Xray of consecrated ancient Buddha statue

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My first homemade mala! I used purple jasper and purple agate as the guru bead. Made it for my girlfriend.

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My meditation space and home shrine on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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Meaning of finding a Buddha statue So I was was walking down a mountain in my town, and found a Buddha statue do this have any significant meaning?

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My personal Buddha, not sure which type. Gift from customer

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Who is this budha statue? He looks kind of scary

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Is anyone able to translate the Tibetan on this image, please?

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I am a photographer, and a Buddhist. Last year I traveled to one of the most magical and beautiful locations on Earth. Larung Gar. Now it is being destroyed. I humbly ask you to share this image in social media to raise awareness. Thank you

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What is it that tends to drag you back into the cycle of samsara?

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Bodhisattvas Are Not Limited By Skin Color

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Turned my yard Buddha into wallpaper for my iPhone.

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Buddhism in the uk as of the 2021 census (made by me)

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I did a quick Buddha sketch. Art is very meditative for me.

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Namaste From Kolkata, India.

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for a lotus to blossom, there must be mud 🪷 may you find peace in your practice

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A terrarium I made!

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Is this Amitabha Buddha?

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The Five Remembrances

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Wooden Antique Guan Yin Statues

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3D prited Buddha

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Is anyone familiar with this Japanese cartoon? As East Asian I grew up watching it. It has many Buddhist teaching, very educational and entertaining to both children and adults!

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My favorite of the five remembrances

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Inside one of Bagan’s Pagoda, Myanmar

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After 2 weeks of self-isolation I went outside to enjoy the warmth of the Sun and the breeze of the Wind. This prayer really relates to my inner realisation: Sky is free. Ocean is blissful. Trees are divine. Rocks are enlightened. So are we. Who is still searching ... for what? Sending blessings🙏

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Just went to my local used book shop and snagged these two wonderful books! HOW TO PRACTICE by His holiness the Dalai Lama and THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING for $6 cdn total! A very good day!

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is this an okay setup?

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Wanted to share this beautiful art of Sukhavati (Amitabha's pure land)

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Melting gold to paint some Buddhas

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Look at the oil lamp!!! Is it in a good places?

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Thai Buddhist Stupa in Lumbini, Nepal

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heart sutra cake. and i thought writing with a brush is hard

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Monk Beop-Ryun: You won't get into college by praying to Buddha. Buddha is not your college admission agent.

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patience is the highest virtue 🙏 may you find peace in your practice

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This is the Hadda Triad, an Indo-Greek period statue ( ie:- either during the reign of Menander I, Strato I or Menander II ). Note that this was between 150BCE to 100BCE. Note that here the Buddha is flanked by Heracles/Vajrapani and Tyche/Hariti.

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chiral aperiodic monotiles aka ‘spectres’ 🙏 may you find peace in your practice

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question, does this mean all together or just little by little?

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Got this shirt as a gift for Christmas!

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We've put a budai at the front of our house

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Thirteenth century hanging scroll painting depicting the Japanese Buddhist deity Fudo Myoo in his Kurikara ryuo (dragon king Kulika) form. After a non-Buddhist heretic challenged Fudo by turning into a sword, the wisdom king responded by transforming into a dragon and devouring his opponent.

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He was a light unto the world/ Anh ay la anh sang cho the gioi. Where will his next incarnation be?

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WIP of a clay monk im working on. I found this medium very relaxing to work with.

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Buddha head candle

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Never been so impressed by a shrine - Sri Lanka

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Can someone explain, the meaning of the symbols

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So beautiful one.

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My small altar. I live in a small apartment and cant have it up all the time, but whenever I practice I arrange it like this and light some incense

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Spent some time at the altar today. Thought about the placements of the objects of refuge - trying to place things appropriately. May you all have blessings in your practice.

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Thoughts of this passage about “armchair Buddhists”?

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The archeological remaining of Tilaurakot, an ancient city of Kapilavastu, where Prince Siddhartha(Buddha) is said to have been raised

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My latest amazing read! I highly recommend!

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My home altar

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Can anyone tell me what this says?

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🙏 If we honestly follow the Buddha, we must see the foolishness in answering violence with violence. War and death, through the law of karma, only creates more War and Death || SN 3.15

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I’m brand new to Buddhism and I don’t have a dedicated meditation space yet so I set one up on my nightstand

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Killing time. Drawing (and cooking) is my mediation.

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I've been seeing a lot of buddha statues/amulets on here lately. Thought I'd share my little traveling buddha. it's gone on every trip on mine for the past 10 years or so.

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Got this for xmas, wondering what type of buddhism is this and who this could be?

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Made a Buddhist Cats sub for those who enjoy the bidalayana

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Can anyone tell me what this means and what language it is in? My mom bought this for me when the Jade Buddha came to my hometown and I’ve wondered since Thank you very much

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Dalai Lama's meditation spot

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The spread of buddhism

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Some art I picked up from a music festival on sunday

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Tara altar at home

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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva Statue Mt Emei China

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Does anyone have any recommendations similar to this book? I really liked how it was more of a story than pure teaching.

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The elephant stopped his murderous charge in absorption of the METTA from the Buddha! Clearly squishing this Bhikkhu would be like squishing one of his own! LOVE & KINDNESS / METTA for all the angry and fearful beings that often misstep!

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I found this book at an antique shop and it had a lot of very interesting information in it. Do you recommend this book for a beginner Buddhist?

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New book - Autism and Buddhist Practice - How Buddhism can help autistic adult cultivate wellbeing

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A new addition to my 3d printed altar. 14 hours “meditating” on the print bed.

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Who are those buddhas?

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New read, just in time for a week off!

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Life-cycle in Buddhism, if anyone can explain

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My Hindu-Buddhist shrine 🕉 in our family temple 🙏 Namo Buddhay 🙏

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Rethreaded my African ebony 108 mala :) 🙏🏻

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An Old Zen Garden where I help rake the stones.

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Just finished it. If you’re like me and trying to crack into the texts — it’s magnificent.

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Why this does not exist?

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My son paying his respects

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A sketch of my Shih Fu. (Some of his teachings in the comments)

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Pung Gyen Buddhist Gompa in Manaslu, Nepal

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Wondering if anyone would be kind enough to translate the script on front and back of this piece?

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Namo Buddhaya 🙏

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Ulkamukha Pretaraja

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Statue of the Buddha and his discipiles in Lumbini Park, Nepal

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The Buddhist temple in my city

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Altar at my new small studio apartment

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A guy was gifted a stone obelisk depicting the enlightenment of Buddha.

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Amitabha painting I made, Oil on Canvas

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I drew this after a meditation. What do you guys think?

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Everyone can become a Buddha. Everyone is equal. It is not only the equality between people but also the equality between creatures.

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return to the path anytime 🙏 may you find peace in your practice

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first time meditating with my new mala, and the tea kettle scared me :( impermanence.

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drawing esoteric buddhist deities

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You are the guru, you are the yidam, you are the dakinis and protectors. From now until enlightenment I shall seek no other refuge than you. In this life, the bardo, and all future lives, hold me with your hook of compassion...Be my constant friend, and guard me from interferences.

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Majestic Lord Buddha

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peace to all wandering living beings equal to space & a blessed vesak/vaisakha.

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All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable end, which is sorrow. Knowing this, renounce acquisition and heaping up, and faithful to the commands of an eminent guru, set about realizing the Truth which has no birth or death. - Jetsun Milarepa

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Shrine

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Buddha Statue in Vietnam

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There is nothing in this world that is a certainty

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Here’s a small painting of Shakyamuni Buddha I did. I paint them often for when I rearrange my altar.

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Was inspired to draw a proper image for the first time in a while after u/old_death (?) post couple of weeks ago

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A mandala I drew

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Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple and one of the city of Kyoto's most famous landmarks - Kinkaku-ji.

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Every thing That I have experienced and received has been bestowed to me.

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I made my altar more different, than when my altar began! See I take advice!!! Any improvements needed!!!!!!👌🙏😌

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Does anyone know the meaning behind this type of Buddha statue?

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Respond to my friend’s text!

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“The Ascetic Meditates in the Barren Desert” Based on the Buddha’s period of extreme asceticism. Hope y’all enjoy

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conditioned cacti 🌵 may you find peace in your practice

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Sakyamuni coming out of the mountains.

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Amitabha

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Namo Amituofo 🙏

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My shrine 🙏🏽. Bring me peace.

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Their favorite spot on the porch 😻

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It's not much, but y'all have inspired me to clean my depression den and start an altar!

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Daibutsu (Yakushi Buddha) of Nokogiriyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

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Open Eyed Buddha drawn by Bodhisattva Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.

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there are 3 marks of existence you will notice 🙏 may you find peace in your practice

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A beautiful hand-made gift of Guanyin from my wonderful Chinese tutor

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What’s the name of this mudra?

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Dependent Arising 🙏 May you find peace in your practice

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Maitreya Bodhisattva

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Buddha Milky Way

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Looking for help identifying who/what is being depicted on this icon I was given

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this reminded me of body contemplation/asubha

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Someone help me what does this mean

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Does anyone else experience the “just be enlightened” invalidation?

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