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Buddha
Gilt Bronze Buddha 10"H |  Padma
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Buddha 8"H |
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Buddha SOLD! Tibetan
Statue 13"H |  Amitayus
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Armed Manjushri SOLD! Tibetan Gilt Bronze 7"H |  Guhyasamaja
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Mahakala SOLD! Sino Tibetan Bronze 13"H |  Drenpa
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BUDDHA
STATUES(
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methods of Siddhartha practice were rigorous. He spurred himself on with the thought
that "no ascetic in the past, none in the present, and none in the future, ever
has practiced or ever will practice more earnestly than I do." Still the Prince
could not realize his goal. After six years in the forest he gave up the practice
of asceticism. He went bathing in the river and accepted a bowl of milk from the
hand of Sujata, a maiden, who lived in the neighboring village. The five companions
who had lived with the Prince during the six years of his ascetic practice were
shocked that he should receive milk from the hand of a maiden; they thought him
degraded and left him. Thus the Prince was left alone. He was weak, but at the
risk of losing his life he attempted yet another period of meditation, saying
to himself, "Blood may become exhausted, flesh may decay, bones may fall apart,
but I will never leave this place until I find the way to enlightenment." It
was an intense and incomparable struggle. He was desperate and filled with confusing
thoughts, dark shadows overhung his spirit, and he was beleaguered by all the
lures of the evils. Carefully and patiently he examined them one by one and rejected
them all. It was a hard struggle indeed, making his blood run thin, his flesh
fall away, and his bones crack. But when the morning star finally appeared in
the eastern sky, the struggle was over and the Prince's mind was as clear and
bright as the breaking day. He had, at last, found the path to Enlightenment.
It was December eighth, when Prince Siddhartha became a Buddha at thirty-five
years of age. From
this time on, Prince Siddhartha was known by different names: some spoke of him
as Buddha, the Perfectly Enlightened One, Tathagata; some spoke of him as Shakyamuni,
the Sage of the Shakya clan; others called him the World-honored One.
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