Buddhism
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| The Venerable Piyadassi Mahathera from Sri Lanka during his visit to South Africa in May 1982 |
Piyadassi Maha Thera is best known as a great preacher of the Dhamma both in Sinhala and in English and it was in this field that his popularity was foremost. |
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| The Site where Buddha was born |
Lumbinī is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. |
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| The Buddha protected by Nagaraja Mucalinda |
Mucalinda is the name of a nāga, a snake-like being, who protected the Gautama Buddha from the elements after his enlightenment. It is said that four weeks after Gautama Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi Tree, the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended. ... |
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| Stupa at Borobudur Java 8th Century |
The Borobudur monument combines the symbolic forms of the stupa, the temple mountain and the mandala. |
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| Stupa at Borobudur 8th Century AD |
Barabudur is a 7th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia. |
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| Stupa at Amaravati |
Carving in a cave monastery showing a Stupa Amaravati |
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| Sculpture of Buddha |
The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi
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| Photographs of Buddha |
Photographs of Buddha |
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| Karla - Plan of Chaitya Cave |
The Karla cave complex is built into a rocky hillside around 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Pune, with large windows cut into the rock to light the cave interiors.The caves are among a large numbers of similar caves excavated in the Sahyadri Hills in the early 1st millennium CE. |
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| Interior of an Ajanta Cave Monastery |
Ajanta consists of thirty caves, each dedicated to the life of the Buddha. ... All of the caves at Ajanta fall into the category of Vihara (monasteries with residence ... |
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| Interior of a rock cut assembly hall Bhaja Western India 2nd century BC |
Bhaja Caves is a group of 22 rock-cut caves dating back to the 2nd century BC located in the city of Pune, India. |
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| Head of the Buddha at Borobudur Java 8th century |
The world's largest Buddhist monument draws pilgrims from around Southeast Asia to a remote hilltop in central Java. ... Borobudur was constructed in the eight and ninth centuries during the golden era of ... |
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| Gilded metal castings depicting the Buddha's first sermon in the deer park at Sarnath Tibet |
A popular subject in medieval Buddhist art is the Buddha preaching his first sermon in a deer forest at Sarnath, |
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| Gautama being confronted by evil forces Gandera |
The Buddha was simply a human being and he claimed no inspiration from any God or ... He encountered an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a religious ascetic. ... The historical Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) is also known as Shakyamuni. ... |
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| Facade of a rock ct assembly hall Bhaja Western India 2nd Century BC |
The chaitya at Bhaja Caves is perhaps the earliest surviving chaitya hall, constructed in the second century BCE. It consists of an apsidal hall with stupa. The columns slope inwards in the imitation of wooden columns that would have been structurally necessary to keep a roof up. |
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| Exterior of a cave monastery Ajanta in India 4th century |
The caves at Ajanta date from the 2nd century B.C.E. to 650 C.E and were cut into the ... Discovered by chance in 1819 by British soldiers on a hunt, the Ajanta Caves have become an icon of ancient Indian art, and have influenced ... |
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| Dhamek Stupa in Deerpark at Sarnath near Banares Varanasi where the Buddha gave his first sermon 16th Century |
The Dhamek Stupa is said to mark the spot where the Buddha gave the first sermon to his first five disciples, led by Kaundinya, after attaining enlightenment,"revealing his Eightfold Path leading to nirvana". |
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| Description of a Stupa |
The stupa is an important form of Buddhist architecture, though it predates Buddhism. It is generally considered to be a sepulchral monument a place of burial or a receptacle for religious objects. At its simplest, a stupa is a dirt burial mound faced with stone.
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| Chorten Tibet 14 Century |
The Memorial Chorten of Thimphu was conceived by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931–2011),according to the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. |
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| Buddhist text |
Buddhist texts are those religious texts which are part of the Buddhist tradition. The first Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by Buddhist monastics, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts |