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The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha (3,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Eight Great Events (aṣṭamahāpratihārya) are a set of episodes in the life of Gautama Buddha that by the time of the Pala Empire of North India around

Nanda (half-brother of Buddha) (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Learning of this, the Buddha took Nanda on a journey to Tavatimsa Heaven or Trāyastriṃśa. On the way Nanda saw a she-monkey that had lost her ears, nose, and

Vemacitrin (197 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Trāyastriṃśa where they had formerly lived. After one battle he was made prisoner and bound before the throne of Śakra, ruler of Trāyastriṃśa, whom

Shaka rising from the Gold Coffin (425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attained Enlightenment and entered Nirvana, she rushed to see him from Trāyastriṃśa. When she arrived, Buddha opened his golden coffin and rose up, with

Buddhist cosmology (10,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the Brahma-world of the Rūpadhātu) wishes to visit a deva of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven (in the Kāmadhātu), he has to assume a "grosser form" in order

Gandharva (1,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conveying news from them to Mātali, the latter representing Śakra and the Trāyastriṃśa Devas. In Jainism, gandharvas are classed among the eight Vyantara Devas

Deva (Buddhism) (1,977 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

enjoy themselves but also engage in strife and fighting. They are: The Trāyastriṃśa devas, who live on the peak of Sumeru and are something like the Olympian

Mount Meru (Buddhism) (1,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

table below: The 80,000 yojana square top of Sumeru constitutes the Trāyastriṃśa "heaven" (devaloka), which is the highest plane in direct physical contact

Brahmā (Buddhism) (3,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

make himself perceptible to the coarser senses of Śakra and the gods of Trāyastriṃśa. The singular leading deity and the king of heavens Brahmā is sometimes

Garuda (5,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were among the beings appointed by Śakra to guard Mount Sumeru and the Trāyastriṃśa heaven from the attacks of the asuras. In the Maha-samaya Sutta (Digha

Amaravati (mythology) (635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

chamber of Amaravati accommodates the thirty-three celestials called the Trāyastriṃśa, together with the forty-eight thousand rishis, and a multitude of attendants

Nagarjunakonda (3,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha's descent from Trāyastriṃśa heaven, second half 3rd century.

Rāhula (6,806 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

travelling psychically through the second Buddhist heaven (Sanskrit: Trāyastriṃśa). According to the early Ekottara Āgama (Sārvastivāda or Mahāsaṅghika

Maudgalyayana (8,844 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Udāyana Buddha. The account relates that the Buddha pays a visit to the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven (Pali: Tāvatiṃsa) to teach his mother. King Udāyana misses the

Mahāsāṃghika (7,702 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Depiction of the Buddha's descent from Trāyastriṃśa heaven, second half 3rd century