Praise to the Buddha 🙏 Iti pi so...  🙏 Most Beautiful Buddha Statue 🙏 #buddha #AjahnDhammasiha
Channel: Dhamma Talks at Dhammagiri
Date: 2023-09-11

One of the most beautiful Buddha Statues I've ever seen. Gandhara style, from 2nd century CE. Museum for Asian Art, Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

Perfect synthesis of Indian culture, expressing the profound inner qualities of peace, calm, wisdom and compassion, and at the same time exhibiting the supreme beauty of bodily form as in Greek/Hellenistic art.

Background audio plays the traditional chant describing the most exceptional qualities of the Buddha, as he explained them himself. This chant has been preserved in the original language of the Buddha, Pali, for more than 2,500 years:

"Iti pi so
Bhagavā
Arahaṃ
Sammā-sam-buddho
Vijjā-caraṇa-sampanno
Sugato
Lokavidū
Anuttaro purisa-damma-sārathī
Satthā deva-manussānaṃ
Buddho
Bhagavā"

English translation:
"This is indeed
The exalted one,
The worthy one,
The perfectly enlightened one.
Impeccable in conduct and understanding,
The welcome one,
The supreme coach of those amiable to training,
Teacher of gods and humans,
The awakened one,
The blessed one."


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https://www.dhammagiri.net/post/two-buddhas-and-one-symbol



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