Buddhism is a spiritual tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development and the attainment of a deep insight into the true nature of life.

Buddhism teaches that all life is interconnected, so compassion is natural and important.

• Buddhism is 2,500 years old
• There are currently 376 million followers worldwide
• There are around 151, 816 Buddhists in Britain according to the 2001 census
• Buddhism arose as a result of Siddhartha Gautama’s quest for Enlightenment in around the 6th Century BCE
• There is no belief in a personal God. It is not centred on the relationship between humanity and God
• Buddhists believe that nothing is fixed or permanent – change is always possible
• The two main Buddhist sects are Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism, but there are many more
• Buddhism is a very colourful faith with many festivals throughout the year
• Buddhists can worship both at home or at a temple

The path to Enlightenment is through the practice and development of morality, meditation and wisdom.

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The excellent gems of Buddhism
are the three gems
And one of them is our Lord Buddha
All things are created for his remembrance
Only Buddha’s relics
are the most important
Coming from his body for mankind

รัตนะที่ประเสริฐสุดในพระพุทธศาสนา คือพระรัตนตรัย
หนึ่งในนั้น คือองค์สมเด็จพระสัมมาสัมพุทธเจ้า
ปูชนียวัตถุมากมายถูกสร้างขึ้น
เพื่อระลึกถึงพระองค์
แต่พระบรมสารีริกธาตุ
เป็นปูชนียวัตถุเพียงสิ่งเดียว
ที่บังเกิดจากพระวรกายของพระองค์

The meaning of the words about the Buddha’s relics

“Phra Parama Sareerikathad” (Sarīrika Dhātu) in Thai means the tiny part of the relics which originated especially from the Lord Buddha. It is not called for the relics of Buddhist disciples.

“Phra Thad” (Dhātu) in Thai means the bone or any part of the body such as hair, nail, teeth, skin, blood, etc. which are different to the bone of ordinary people. The relics shall be similar to the element as pebble, stone, glass, diamond, etc. it is not called for the bone or any part of body that look like normal.

Normally, the word “Phra Parama Sareerikathad” is the same meaning of “Buddha’s relics”. The word “Phra Thad” is the same meaning of “the Relics“. Even though the word “Relics“ does not limit the physical appearance which is totally different to the normal bone. It is not exactly the same usage as in Thai.

Relic (noun):

1. an object of interest surviving from an earlier time.
2. a surviving but outdated object, custom, or belief.
3. a part of a holy person’s body or belongings kept and revered after their death.

- the Compact Oxford English Dictionary -

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The kind of the Buddha’s relics

……….The Buddha’s relics are found to be different to the bone of the ordinary people. However, we have found some kind of the Buddha’s relics which looked the same as those of ordinary people from the Buddhist sanctuaries or museums in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and anywhere else in the world. They can be separated into 2 main groups:

The Buddha’s relics which looked like bone

………. These kind are found only in the ancient places in India. The British Government presented them twice to Thailand in the period of King Rama V, he was pleased to allocate them in the Golden Mount of Wat Sraket in Bangkok and the Chedi Sri Mahathat of Wat Phra Sri Mahathat, Bangkhen.
* picture shown the Buddha’s relics presented at National Museum of India

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The properties of the Buddha’s relics

……….The properties of the Buddha’s relics and the relics which are found generally in the present and accepted by all Buddhists and Buddhist priests, can be described as follows:

	They are in various colours such as crystal clear or unclear, white colour as the conch shell, gold, black, pink, red, etc.
	They are in various shapes such as rice grain shape, cabbage seed shape, broken bean shape, etc.
	The tiny size can be floated. Whenever floated, they can attract and float together.
	They can increase or decrease. This happens only specially with the relics.
	The colour and the size can be changed.
	Most of them are light compared to size.

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The type of the Buddha’s relics

As the explanation in Dīghanikāya Aṭṭhakathā (Sumaṅgalavilāsinī), the author separated the Buddha’s relics into 2 main groups:

1. Navippakiṇṇā-dhātu are the Buddha’s relics which remained in shape without breaking into tiny parts. They are 7 pieces: 1 frontal bone, 4 teeth and 2 collarbones.

2. Vippakiṇṇā-dhātu are the Buddha’s relics which did not remain in shape but broke into tiny parts. They are dissipated in various places.

The ancient author separated the Vippakiṇṇā-dhātu by considering the appearance into 3 groups:

	1.The colour of the jasmine bud [In pali called Sumanamakulasadisā] They can be estimated about 6 Doṇa*
	2.The colour of Mutta (burnished moonstone) [In pali called Dhotamuttasadisā] They can be estimated about 5 Doṇa*
	3.The colour of the golden powder [In pali called Suvaṇṇacuṇṇā] They can be estimated about 5 Doṇa*
*Doṇa is the name of an ancient measurement. 1 Doṇa is about 1 litre

	1. Small size as about cabbage seed [In pali called Sabbakhuddakā Dhātu Sāsapavījamattā] *some textbook said this size is in jasmine bud colour
	2. Medium size as about seed milled rice broken into two parts [In pali called Mahādhātu Majjhe bhinnataṇdฺulamattā] *some textbook said this size is in Mutta colour
	3. Big size as about green bean broken into two parts [In pali called Atimahatī Majjhe Bhinnamuggāmattā] *some textbook said this size is in golden powder colour
* Phrachaolieplok Scripture.

Some knowledge of Buddha’s relics colour

pearl moonstone As the explanation in Sumaṅgalavilāsinī, the jasmine bud colour and golden powder colour can be easily found and compared but for the Mutta colour it is quite confused. Mookda in Thai comes from the word Muttā in pali, in Thai dictionary it is said mookda can be pearl or can mean the name of one precious stone which is smoky colour. Hence, somebody identifies it as moonstone. If we consider it as pearl, we hardly find them. However if we consider it as “the moonstone which has already burnished” it can be possible that mookda may not be pearl but may be the Buddha’s relics which are in white tone and pearl tone as the pearls. The same thing in the golden powder color, any yellowish can be in this group.

The floating relics

The ancient teacher said the Buddha’s relics and relics which are not too big can be floated. When floating on the surface of water there appears a depression to support them. Moreover a radius can appear around the Buddha relics. Whenever floated, the Buddha’ s relics can attract and float together even if they are far from each other. For this reason, there is the story talking about anybody who pays the regular high respect to the Buddha’ s relics, they can attract pieces to be in one place together. There is the prohibition from the teacher not to test the Buddha’s relics by floating as it means to look down on our Lord Buddha. *refer to the article of Khunying Sureephan Maneewat about herself to apologize to the Lord Buddha after her intention to test by floating them.

Note : About the year 2003, an elder friend visited our website and told about her case when she took the Buddha’s relics to bath. She put them into the prepared water , they sank directly into the bottom of the container. Her friends who investigated around asked for the floating as being told before. Then, she made a wish and suddenly the Buddha’s relics floated up on the surface of water.

The history of the arising of Buddha’s relics The cause of arising of the Buddha’s relics was from the desire of our Lord Buddha before his Parinibbāna (the Great Decease of the Buddha). Normally, the Buddha who lived a long life to settle the Buddhist Legend, had his own relics in a piece of natural golden bar, which could not be shared among the people in their Buddha period and could not be placed anywhere. Hence the construction of the Buddhist sanctuary was required to be done in one place only. Our present Lord Buddha (Sakyamuni Buddha) considered that his teaching period was only 45 years which he thought not too much compared with the previous Buddhas. He also thought that his instructions were not expanded enough and taught to those who were not yet born on time in his legend. Anyone who received his relics for respecting would get a lot of Puñña (the accumulation of good blessing, fortune or well-being) so he wished that his relics be scattered to all directions except 7 pieces (1 frontal bone, 4 teeth and 2 collarbones).
All of the above mentioned information was presented identically such as in the Sumaṅgalavilāsinī, Paṭhama Sambodhi Kathā by the Supreme Patriarch Kromphra Paramānujitajinorasa, Mulasāsanā Scripture, Jinakalamalipakaranam by Ven. Ratanapañña Thera and Phrachaolieplok Scripture.

The places where they are installed

The dissipation of Buddha’s relics after having been separated in to 8 parts were moved to different places. After the Buddha’s cremation, the history said that Ven. Maha Kassapa and King Ajatasatru joined to do a wish to invite the separated Buddha’s relics back to install in the same place to protect from loss due to the war. At the end of the history it is said that the person who invited the Buddha’s relics and disseminated them was King Asoka. According to the prayer books for worship the places where those 7 exceptional pieces of Buddha’s relics (non-scattered) are installed is as follows: 1. His upper right canine tooth to be installed in Culamani Shrine in Tāvatiṃsā (the second heavenly abode). 2. His upper left canine tooth to be installed in Gandhāra Kingdom 3. His lower right canine tooth to be installed in Sri Lanka 4. His lower left canine tooth to be installed in the Naga world 5. His right collarbone to be installed in Culamani Shrine in Tāvatiṃsā 6. His left collarbone to be installed in Dusasa Shrine in Brahmaloka (the Brahma world) 7. His frontal bone to be installed in Dusasa Shrine in Brahmaloka

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Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual; and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. — Albert Einstein

If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. — Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein

-Peace to us all-

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” The  Human  Side “

The  religion  of  the  future  will  be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)

“ศาสนาในอนาคต จะต้องเป็นศาสนาสากล ศาสนานั้นควรอยู่เหนือพระเจ้าที่มีตัวตน และควรจะเว้นคำสอนแบบสิทธันต์ (คือเป็นแบบสำเร็จรูปที่ให้เชื่อตามเพียงอย่างเดียว) และ แบบเทววิทยา(คือพึ่งเทวดาเป็นหลักใหญ่)   ศาสนานั้นเมื่อครอบคลุมทั้งธรรมชาติและจิตใจ  จึงควรมีรากฐานอยู่บนสามัญสำนึกทางศาสนาที่เกิดขึ้นจากประสบการณ์ต่อสิ่ง ทั้งปวง  คือ  ทั้งธรรมชาติและจิตใจอย่างเป็นหน่วยรวมที่มีความหมาย    พระพุทธศาสนาตอบข้อกำหนดนี้ได้

.…ถ้าจะมีศาสนาใดที่รับมือได้กับความต้องการทางวิทยาศาสตร์สมัยใหม่ปัจจุบัน ศาสนานั้นก็ควรเป็นพระพุทธศาสนา“

[1954, from Albert Einstein:The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]

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Introduction to Buddhism

As a child,  Siddhartha  the  Buddha,  was troubled by  some of the same  thoughts that  children today  have. They wonder  about birth and death.

They wonder why they get sick and why grandfather died. They wonder why their wishes do not come true. Children also wonder about happiness and the beauty in nature.

Because the Buddha knew what was in the hearts of children and human kind, he taught everyone how to live a happy and peaceful life. Buddhism is not learning about strange beliefs from faraway lands.

It is about looking at and thinking about our own lives. It shows us how to understand ourselves and how to cope with our daily problems.

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Life in the Palace

Buddhism is one of the major religions in the world. It began around 2,500 years ago in India when Siddhartha Gautama discovered how to bring happiness into the world. He was born around 566 BC, in the small kingdom of Kapilavastu. His father was King Suddhodana and his mother was Queen Maya.

Soon after Prince Siddhartha was born, the wise men predicted that he would become a Buddha.

When the king heard this, he was deeply disturbed, for he wanted his son to become a mighty ruler.

He told Queen Maya, “I will make life in the palace so pleasant that our son will never want to leave.”

At the age of sixteen, Prince Siddhartha married a beautiful princess, Yasodhara. The king built them three palaces, one for each season, and lavished them with luxuries.

They passed their days in enjoyment and never thought about life outside the palace.

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The  Four  Sights

Soon Siddhartha became disillusioned with the palace life and wanted to see the outside world. He made four trips outside the palace and saw four things that changed his life.

On the first three trips, he saw sickness, old age and death.

He asked himself, “How can I enjoy a life of pleasure when there is so much suffering in the world?”

On his fourth trip, he saw a wandering monk who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering. “I shall be like him.” Siddhartha thought

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Renunciation

Leaving his kingdom and loved ones behind, Siddhartha became a wandering monk. He cut off his hair to show that he had renounced the worldly lifestyle and called himself Gautama.

He wore ragged robes and wandered from place to place. In his search for truth, he studied with the wisest teachers of his day. None of them knew how to end suffering, so he continued the search on his own.

For six years he practiced severe asceticism thinking this would lead him to enlightenment. He sat in meditation and ate only roots, leaves and fruit. At times he ate nothing.

He could endure more hardships than anyone else, but this did not take him anywhere. He thought, “Neither my life of luxury in the palace nor my life as an ascetic in the forest is the way to freedom. Overdoing things can not lead to happiness. “

He began to eat nourishing food again and regained his strength.

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Enlightenment

On a full-moon day in May, he sat under the Bodhi tree in deep meditation and said. “I will not leave this spot until I find an end to suffering.”

During the night, he was visited by Mara, the evil one, who tried to tempt him away from his virtuous path. First he sent his beautiful daughters to lure Gautama into pleasure.

Next he sent bolts of lightning, wind and heavy rain. Last he sent his demonic armies with weapons and flaming rocks. One by one, Gautama met the armies and defeated them with his virtue.
As the struggle ended, he realized the cause of suffering and how to remove it. He had gained the most supreme wisdom and understood things as they truly are.

He became the Buddha, ‘The Awakened One’. From then on, he was called Shakyamuni Buddha.

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The Buddha Teaches

After his enlightenment, he went to the Deer Park near the holy city of Benares and shared his new understanding with five holy men. They understood immediately and became his disciples. This marked the beginning of the Buddhist community.

For the next forty-five years, the Buddha and his disciples went from place to place in India spreading the Dharma, his teachings. Their compassion knew no bounds, they helped everyone along the way, beggars, kings and slave girls. At night, they would sleep where they were; when hungry they would ask for a little food.

Whenever the Buddha went, he won the hearts of the people because he dealt with their true feelings. He advised them not to accept his words on blind faith, but to decide for themselves whether his teachings are right or wrong, then follow them.

He encouraged everyone to have compassion for each other and develop their own virtue, “You should do your own work, for I can teach only the way.”

He never became angry or impatient or spoke harshly to anyone, not even to those who opposed him. He always taught in such a way that everyone could understand. Each person thought the Buddha was speaking especially for him. The Buddha told his followers to help each other on the Way. Following is a story of the Buddha living as an example to his disciples.
Once the Buddha and Ananda visited a monastery where a monk was suffering from a contagious disease. The poor man lay in a mess with no one looking after him. The Buddha himself washed the sick monk and placed him on a new bed.

Afterwards, he admonished the other monks. “Monks, you have neither mother nor father to look after you. If you do not look after each other, who will look after you? Whoever serves the sick and suffering, serves me.”

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The Last Years

Shakyamuni Buddha passed away around 486 BC at the age of eighty. Although he has left the world, the spirit of his kindness and compassion remains.

The Buddha realized that that he was not the first to become a Buddha. “There have been many Buddhas before me and will be many Buddhas in the future,”

The Buddha recalled to his disciples. “All living beings have the Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.” For this reason, he taught the way to Buddhahood.

The two main goals of Buddhism are getting to know ourselves and learning the Buddha’s teachings.

To know who we are, we need to understand that we have two natures. One is called our ordinary nature, which is made up of unpleasant feelings such as fear, anger, and jealousy.

The other is our true nature, the part of us that is pure, wise, and perfect.

In Buddhism, it is called the Buddha nature. The only difference between us and the Buddha is that we have not awakened to our true nature.

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Be strong enough to face the word each day

จง…เข้มแข็งพอที่จะเผชิญหน้ากับความจริง

Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.
จง…อ่อนแอพอที่จะรับรู้ว่าเราไม่สามารถทำอะไรได้ตามลำพัง

Be generous to those who need your help.
จง…ฟุ่มเฟือยน้ำใจ  เมื่อมีใครต้องการความช่วยเหลือ

Be frugal with what you need yourself.
จง…ประหยัดสิ่งที่จำเป็นไว้

Be wise enough to know that you do not know everything.
จง…ฉลาดพอที่จะรู้ว่าเราไม่ได้รู้ทุกสิ่ง

Be foolish enough to believe in miracles.
จง…โง่พอที่จะเชื่อในปาฏิหาริย์

Be willing to share your joys.
จง…เต็มใจจะแบ่งปันความสุขของตัวเอง

Be willing to share the sorrows of others.
จง…เต็มใจที่จะแบ่งรับความทุกข์ของผู้อื่น

Be a  leader when you see a path of others have missed.
จง…เป็นผู้นำหากทางที่ผู้อื่นทิ้งไว้ให้นั้นเลือนลาง

Be a follower when you are shrouded in the midst of uncertainly.
จง…เป็นผู้ตามหากตกอยู่ในวงล้อมแห่งความไม่แน่นอน

Be the first to  congratulate an opponent who succeeds.
จง…เป็นคนแรกที่แสดงความยินดีต่อความสำเร็จของคู่แข่ง

Be the last to criticize   a  colleaque who fails.
จง…เป็นคนสุดท้ายที่จะวิจารณ์ความผิดพลาดของเพื่อน

Be sure where you next step will fall, so that you will not stumble.
จง…มองเพียงแค่ก้าวถัดไปเพราะมันจะทำให้เราไม่ล้ม

Be loving to those who love you.
จง…รักคนที่รักคุณ

Be loving to those who do not love you, and they may change.
จง…รักคนที่ไม่รักคุณแ้ล้วสักวันหนึ่ง…เค้าอาจเปลี่ยนใจ

Above all, be yourself.
แต่เหนือสิ่งอื่นใด…จงเป็นตัวของตัวเอง

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