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BUDDHISM (...contd)

SHORT NOTES ON BUDDHISM, SSC HISTORY 

• The fourth Buddhist council was held in the first century AD at Kundalavana in Kashmir under the President-ship of Vasumithra and Ashvagosha and under the patronage of Kanishka.
• Clear division of Buddhism into Hinayana and Mahayana tookplace at the fourth council.
• Upagupta converted Ashoka to Buddhism.
• Ashvagosha was the first biographer of Buddha who wrote Budhacharitam in Sanskrit.
• Vasubandu is known as Second Buddha.
• Ashoka is known as the Constantine of Buddhism.
• Ashoka accepted Buddhism after the battle of Kalinga in BC 261.

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5 SYMBOLS OF BUDDHA

• Birth ....................................... Lotus and Bull
• Renunciation ........................................Horse
• Enlightenment ................................ Bodhitree
• First Sermon ......................... Dharma Chakra
• Nirvana (Death) ............................ Foot prints
• Buddhist worshipping centre is known as Pagoda.
• Viharas are the Buddhist monastries.
• Vajrayana was a sect of Buddhism which believed in achieving salvation through Mantras and spells.
• ‘Jataka stories’ describe the stories related to the birth of Buddha. They are 500 in number.
• Holy book of Buddhism is Tripitika- Vinayapitika, Suddhapitika and Abhidhamapitika are collectively known as Tripitika.
•  Bimbisara of Magadha was a contemporary of Buddha.
•  Kanishka who worked to spread Buddhism like Ashoka is known a Second Ashoka.
•  Ashoka sent his son and daughter, Mahendra and Sanghamitra to SriLanka to spread Buddhism.
• Sri Buddha is known as the ‘Light of Asia’ He was named as such by Edvin Arnold.
• Edvin Arnold’s ‘Light of Asia’ was translated into Malayalam by Nalappad Narayanamenon.
• Hinayanism is wide spread in Sri Lanka.
• The Bodhi tree at Gaya was cut down by Sasanka, a Bengal ruler.
• The chief Buddhist monastery was at Nalanda, which was under the patronage of Pala kings.
• Previous Buddhas are known as ‘Bodhisatvas’.
• Milandapanho a book of Nagasena describes how Greek king Menandar accepted Buddhism.

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