The Living Journal – The Original Portrait of The Lord Shakyamuni Buddha

The original portrait of the Lord Shakyamuni Buddha. 

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts

May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.

May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

May all sentient beings be inseparable from the happiness that is free from suffering.

May all sentient beings abide in calmness, free from desire for friends and hatred for enemies.

Before reciting mantra, let us please generate Bodhichitta motivation by reciting the refuge and generate Bodhichitta prayer and the Four Immeasurable Thoughts. Recite the mantra with a motivation to achieve enlightenment for all sentient beings. 

At the end of the recitation of mantra session, please dedicate our Bodhichitta minds to grow and increase further and further. To do this, our mantra becomes the cause to achieve enlightenment and a cause of happiness for other sentient beings and ourselves. 

Afterbirth, the Buddha began walk on the 7 lotus steps

He stopped with his noble voice shouted:

"I am the chief of the world, Eldest am I in the world,

 Foremost am I in the world, This is the last birth,           There is now no more coming to be."

A prayer to the Lord Shakyamuni Buddha

Tadyatha Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha.

With your great compassion, Lord you was born this world of Samsara and degeneration in BC 563, and you had made five hundred vast aspirations. You are praised like the immaculate white lotus, for whoever hears your name can never fall back into Samasara.

Most compassionate teacher, to you I pay homage. Supreme teacher, Bhagavanb, Tathagata, Arhat, complete and perfect Buddha, glorious conqueror, Shakyamuni Buddha, to you I bow, to you I pay homage. In you I take refuge.

It is said that this is an authentic and indisputable looked like of our Lord Shakyamuni Buddha.  You can see that He is wearing baba style earrings and He has a Mongoloid face. This is the only true portrait of Lord Shakyamuni Buddha during His lifetime; this portrait was drawn secretly by one of the Buddha’s disciples named Purna while the Buddha was teaching. This portrait the Blessed one was 41 year-old when painting. 

This unique and original painting today is stored in the British Imperial Museum and is considered a British national treasure.

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the precious Buddha’s precious Dharma and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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