Twelve Acts of the Buddha
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Wylie transliteration : mdzad pa bcu gnyis
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Other spellings: Dzad pa chu nyi; Skt.dvadaśabuddhakārya
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Simplified :
佛陀 十二 相成 道, 十二 相成 道, 十二 宏 化
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Pinyin : Fotuo shi'er xiangcheng dao, Shi'er xiangcheng dao, Shi'er honghua
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In Mahayana Buddhism, the concept of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha summarizes the most important life stages of a highest Nirmanakaya , especially the Buddha Shakyamuni . They are already reported in the Lalitavistara Sutra, a biography written in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. They play a major role in the hagiography of Tibetan Buddhism . They are also staged in performances.
Twelve Acts of the Buddha
The following events are illustrated:
- 1. Descent from the heavenly realm (by Tushita )
- 2. Entering the womb (by Mayadevi )
- 3. physical birth (to the Shakya clan in Lumbini )
- 4. Be taught in the arts
- 5. Worldly joys of family and palace life
- 6. Breaking away from the family and giving up property
- 7. Exercise of asceticism (on the banks of the Nairañjana )
- 8. Producing Bodhichitta ( Bodhi Tree )
- 9. Defeat the Demonic Powers of Mara (Tib. Bdud)
- 10. Achievement of perfect enlightenment
- 11. Turning the Dharma wheel (in Varanasi and others)
- 12. Entering into Parinirvana (in Kushinagar )
See also
- Lalitavistara Sutra
- Treatise on the nature of the Buddha ( Tib. Rgyud bla ma; chin Baoxing lun宝性论.)
- Highest nirmanakaya (Skt uttamanirāmaṇakāya;. Tib. Mchog gi sprul sku)
literature
- Nicholas Poppe : The twelve deeds of Buddha: a Mongolian version of the Lalitavistara . 1967
Web links
- rigpawiki.org: Twelve Deeds - English
- lotsawaschool.org: The Twelve Deeds (mdzad pa bcu gnyis) ( Memento June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - English
- StudyBuddhism.com: The Twelve Enlightening Deeds of a Buddha
- The Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, translated from the Tibetan by Jürgen Manshardt
References and footnotes
- ↑ See e.g. B. the various photos of the Twelve Deeds (auditorium, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12) of a performance at the Sera Monastery University in Bylakuppe in southern India from January 2007 are no longer available , search in web archives: hi.baidu.com: Fotuo Shi'er honghua tu (Chinese) (found on November 26, 2009)