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The Buddhist Tradition
Casting Buddha Images
to pay homage to the Lord Buddha
Thai Buddhists and Nature of Peace
Thai souls are peaceful. The peace is natured in
Thai hearts since the break of dawn. The Lord Buddha taught all Buddhists to practise peaceful mind by three ways of merit cultivation-giving (alms), precepts and
meditation; Thais take these ways of peaceful mind since the break of new day.
The root of Thai Culture regards to monks and the faith to the Lord Buddha,
with food and necessities of given by laypeople to monks will continue the
monks to study the teaching of the Lord Buddha and to remain the age Buddhism.
This is the know-how of Thais to take peace in their mind which transferred
from the past for over thousand years.
Therefore, Buddhism is the great gems which
persistently last in Thai culture for a long time. The Buddhist teaching is
ready to be given to every people who seek for the peace in mind; because
Buddhism is likely to be the river running through all borders without choosing
where to feed the freshness. By taking and studying Buddhism and keeping it in
practice in daily life, peace will occur in the mind and it will be ready to be
sharing to the others too.
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Tradition of Casting Buddha Statues
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It is the tradition for the Buddhists to build a
Buddha statues or image in order to pay homage and to represent their high
respect ion to the lord Buddha. This comes from the heart of veneration and
faithfulness to the Lord Buddha which natures in their soul since the very
beginning of the Buddhist era.
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The tradition of casting the Buddha Statues in
Thailand has started in the 13th-14th B.E (8th-9th
AD) since the reign of Tavaravadee until nowadays, the Ratanakosin dynasty. In
different dynastic monastery, the Arts and the forms of casting the Buddha
images have been changed and adapted by sculptor’s imagination in each period
of time.
Even though the time and the Arts of casting Buddha
images in each time has changed but the objectives of casting is mainly focused
to the representation of worship and faith
in thy wisdom, benevolence and
virtues. Because, the Buddhists believe that the paying homage to the
Lord Buddha will instill all his goodness in their mind.
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faith in mind of the castors and this will also represent the luster and glory
of Buddhism in that period of time. Moreover, casting the Buddha statues will
remain the age of Buddhism to be down with all Buddhist posterities.
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"> The Cetiya and The Personal Buddha
Images
The Cetiya will be a place for a lot of people to meditate in
order to purify their minds so that the feeling of peace to be resided within
them. The Mahadhammakaya Cetiya is the great stupa enshrined one million Buddha
images; each Buddha image will be grooved the name of the donator at the image
base so called the personal Buddha Image; the size of the base is about 9
inches, the whole body material is made from Silicon Bronze with the ion
plating technology (Gold Coating) which will remain our Buddha images to be
lasting over 1,000 years.
As mentioned above that casting the Buddha image
will be a part of routes to take peace in the mind. With belonging of each
image, out of one million, at the Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya, the gathering of millions
people who seek for peace in mind will be together at the cetiya for making
meditation. By means of meditation, it will be lasting peace in mind and eventually on the Earth.
Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya: The Vanue of Peace
The 700,000 Personal Buddha Images
enshrined inside the Cetiya
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Last Chance to be one out of a million.
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The Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya consists of one million
personal Buddha images, 700,000 will be enshrined inside the cetiya. but 500,000 is already belonged to the donators, Only
200,000 left without owners. Now, it is our last chance on the 22nd
April 2009, earth day, to be the owner of the personal Buddha Images. Let’s
create the peace vibration by being one of the owners of the personal Buddha
images.
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Rejoice in your merit...
"The Worship to The Lord Buddha, ones who make.
The fruits will be equal whether thy is alive or Nirvana (Death)"
Theragada, Khudaka Nikaya
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