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Gautama Buddha Kumara (Gautama Buddha, Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha, Siddhartha, Siddharta, Enlightened One) was the founder of Buddhism. A Pan-Asiatic deity, Gautama has been revered as the Buddha, the Enlightened One since about 500 BCE. Gautama was named Siddharta when he was born around 563 BCE, in Kapilavastu, India into the clan of the Shakyas, a warrior tribe inhabiting an area just below the Himalayan foothills. His father was a Chieftain so young Siddhartha grew up as a prince surrounded by luxury and shielded from the harsh realities and vicissitudes of ordinary life. At sixteen, he was married to the princess Yasodhara. They had a son Rahula. Many years later after his only child, a son named Rahula, had fully matured Siddhartha went on a rare visit outside the palace. When he saw an old man, a sick man, and a dead man, he encountered suffering for the first time. This awakened compassion within his heart. This awakened compassion within his heart. Shortly afterwards, he felt an intense desire to go on a spiritual pilgrimage in quest of truth and to find a path, (which later became known as Buddhism or the Way of the Buddha), for others to follow that would put an end to their pain and suffering. His wife had passed on several years before so Siddhartha turned the leadership of the Shakya clan over to his son Rahula who had been recently married. The storytelling about the life of Siddharta has been somewhat distorted over the years to justify a monastic lifestyle in preference to that of a married householder in the quest for enlightenment. Siddharta was an honorable and responsible man who would not abandon his wife, his child, or his kinfolk to go on a spiritual journey. So it was a widowed Siddhartha with a newly married clan chieftain son who became a wandering ascetic. In India at the time Siddhartha began his search for truth, the path of a wandering ascetic, like the path of a brahmin or a householder, was an esteemed and well traveled path. First he studied Yogic meditation with two Brahmin hermits and Gautama Buddha succeeded in attaining high meditative states. Not fully satisfied by this path, Siddhartha continued his quest by submitting himself to the severe austerities of prolonged fasting and suspended breathing. When this led him to the brink of death, he left all teachers and sat under a Bodhi Tree facing east. He remained there in meditation until he attained enlightenment on the night of the full moon, ascending the Dhyana, the four trance stages, to become Gautama Buddha or the Enlightened One. Gautama Buddha gave his first sermon about Buddhism and Buddhist practices at the age of thirty-five was in the Deer Park at Sarnath. It was called, Turning the Wheel of Dharma. Buddha taught a new spiritual path which he called The Middle Way. If one followed the Buddhism Sacred Pathway it would bring a spiritual pilgrim - clear vision, insight, wisdom, tranquility, awakening, enlightenment, and nirvana. A compassionate benefactor of philosophical intellect and inspirational wisdom, Gautama Buddha's disciplines included all social classes from kings to bankers to courtesans. Basic Buddhism principles that he taught were to treat all sentient beings like oneself and to cultivate compassion, kindliness, empathy and fairness. He emphasized that a good society was casteless and everyone was equal under karmic law. He traveled around and taught in the Ganges basin until he was eighty-four when Gautama Buddha passed on in Kushinagara, India. Buddha’s teachings were recollected by his followers and transmitted orally as Buddhism and Buddhist teachings. It was not until many years after his passage in 483 BCE that the Buddhist principles of Buddhism were written down. The Pali dialogues or sutras are believed to be the closest approximation to what he actually taught. Unique in religious history, no blood has ever been shed to convert others to Buddhism. After the Twelve Universal Lightrays were activated on the planet. To learn more about Buddhism please see Buddhism Buddhist Buddhic Contemplation. Gautama was also the hero archer god Arjuna of the Hindu Veda, Epics, and Puranas. Mentioned in the Epic Mahabharata. Although he was sometimes depicted with a shield and sword, he generally was portrayed as carrying a great bow especially crafted for him by Agni. Particularly reknown for his role in the Bhagavad Gita, Hindu Song of Life, where he was mentored by Lord Krishna who is now known as Hierarch Maitreya Shangdi Kumara. Arjuna was also credited with convincing Vishnu to assume his Visvarupa form. As the Epic and Puranic Hindu moon god Candra, he drove a chariot across the sky pulled by ten white horses. Portrayed with a club, a lotus, a prayer wheel, and a sacred rope, he was the keeper of the sanctified, golden elixir "soma" cup. He was also a Dikpala guardian of the northern direction and the planetary alignment with the North Star. Attended by the Goose Animal Totem, his color was white and his symbol was a moon disc on a lotus blossom. Of Pleiadian Lemurian Shaman lineage, Hierarch Gautama Buddha Kumara was once one of the Indian Pleiadian benefactor teachers and mentors of Lemurian Celtic Mound Builder Heritage, and has recently returned from the Pleiades to assist the Indians, the Buddhists, and the peoples of the planet once again in their evolutionary life spirals. He is also one of the nine Pleiadian brothers known as the Kumaras, who have been shepherding the Earth over the millenium. They have also been called the Kurmavatars or "Tortoise Avatars".
The Pleiadian shamanic
stewardship, leadership mantle for the Earth is now being shared equally by the nine
Pleiadian Kurmavatars or "Tortoise Avatars" which include Hierarch Ashtara Goibniu Kumara,
Hierarch Cuchulain Ahkinxoc Kumara, Hierarch Diancecht Dzacab Kumara, Hierarch Figol Itzamcab Kumara, Hierarch Gautama Buddha Kumara, Hierarch Hunab Ku Kumar, Hierarch Maitreya Shangdi Kumara,
Hierarch Nuada Yumcaax Kumara, and Hierarch Sanada Skanda Kumara.
The Sacred Site focal point of Hierarch Gautama Buddha Kumara and the Tenth Ray of Divine Illumination is Dazu Rock Carvings, Mount Baoding, which is situated in Dazu County near the City of Chongqing in China. The Dazu Rock Sculptures (Dàzú Shíkè) on Mount Baoding date from around the 7th Century ACE. The rock sculptures depict three stellar religious personages (Guatama Buddha, Kong Zi, Lao Zi) who were renowned respectively for their inspirationally insightful Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist Ways of Living. Situated near the city of Chongqing, China, on the steep hillsides of Dazu County, the Dazu Rock Carvings, were comprised of around 50,000 sculptures with inscriptions and epigraphs consisting of more than 100, 000 Chinese characters. Although the initial rock carvings occurred during the early Tang Dynasty in 605 ACE, the majority of the rock carvings on Mount Beishan were initiated by Wei Junjing, the Prefect of Changzhou in the late Ninth Century. From 907-965 ACE during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, monks, nuns, and other local people continued to emulate his exemplary works. Then in the Twelfth Century during the Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhifeng, a devoted Buddhist monk, worked on the intricately crafted Mount Baoding rock carvings and sculptures for seventy years.
A World Heritage Site
since 1999 because of their artistic excellence, their abundant secular and
spiritual multiplicity, and their illumination of Chinese cultural traditions,
the Dazu Rock Carvings on Mount Baoding and Mount Beishan were particularly
noteworthy. They provide outstanding evidence of the harmonious synthesis of
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