#tathagata

[digitalagepulao]

"Let me make a wager with you."

"[...] He'd be an immortal, a Buddha, if he's good; Wickedness would cloak him with hair and horn. Endlessly changing he runs amok in Heaven, Not to be seized by fighting lords or thunder gods."

the mental image of Sun Wukong absolutely twisted into a horrifying demonic form by his rage and ambition, moments before that fateful bet, make me go batshit insane <3

[bhrm555]

Vajrapani Krodha ca. 1700

[journeytothewestresearch]

Academic Buddha Biography PDF

I found scans of Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts (2000) on Internet Archive. I've combined both volumes into a single PDF.

Note: Vol. 1 is missing the bibliography (for some reason), but vol. 2 has it.

[cutiegrumpycerym]

「無明」

"Māra, the embodiment of all unskillful emotions, death, rebirth, and desire.

The malignant celestial king who tried to prevent Buddha from attaining liberation from the Samsara on the night of the Buddha’s enlightenment."

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[blessedrestlessness]

By Waylon Wraith

[didanawisgi]

There is a middle path, oh Bhikkus, discovered by the Tathagata--a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace of mind, to the higher wisdom, to full enlightenment, to Nirvana. Verily! it is this noble eightfold path; that is to say: Right views; Right aspirations; Right speech; Right conduct; Right livelihood; Right effort; Right mindfulness; and, Right contemplation.

The Buddha's "First Sermon," delivered at the deer park in Benares, sets out the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, a key concept of Buddhist thought. (The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, J. Horne, ed., Volume 10 [London: 1917].)

[ordoacephaliorientis]

The Naga-Buddha according to the oAo, representing the signless purushakti nature of signs in the Tathagata, after the Kundalini Serpent Power has passed the seven Chakras (also representing what the order calls the Bodhivira)

[jareckiworld]

Kwok Hon Sum  -  White Tathagata   (ink and color on paper, gold leaf, 2001)