FAQs

As Buddhists, we used to select a place to worship the Buddha. This place is called a ‘temple.’ The utmost position of this temple belongs to the Lord Buddha as He is the most fortunate one. This is why Buddhists make the Buddha’s statues to represent Him and place them in the temple. However, we cannot ever make a statue containing the thirty two great bodily characteristics of the Buddha to represent His extraordinary figure. In the temple, we worship the Buddha by thinking him and his endless noble qualities that no one else possesses.

The Buddha has an excellent behavior beyond normal human nature, and is only seen in another Buddha. Veranja Brahmin one day asked the Buddha “why aren’t you worship or admire the old and matured people?” The Buddha answered him “dear Brahmin, let’s say a chicken has eight, ten, or twelve eggs. When that chicken warms its eggs sitting on them without caring about the bad chicken smell it is making, the chicks will one day come out from those eggs. Dear Brahmin, the chick who will come out first by breaking the egg shell will be the eldest of all. Dear [...]

The Buddha is not a god neither a normal human being. He was a noble man, and became the greatest among humans (and deities) attaining the Nibbana after he was born as a human.

One day, the Buddha addressed Aananda Thero and said “Dear Aananda, you might think ‘isn’t this a doctrine of a teacher who has passed away? So, we don’t have a teacher now.’ Dear Aananda, don’t ever think in that way. Aananda, the Dhamma and the discipline I taught you will be the teacher for you after I die.” It is clear from this statement that if the Dhamma is spared even after so many years of the Buddha’s passing away, one will still be able to see Him alive through the Dhamma he taught us. Hence, the Dhamma will be our [...]

The Buddha is the greatest human being that has ever been born in this world. He is the most fortunate one who freed himself from craving, anger, and the delusional state we are in because of the ignorance of the four noble truths. He followed the Eightfold Path by Himself and realized the Dhamma without a teacher. The Buddha was a miraculous person with a tremendous wisdom. With this miraculous wisdom, He could see the past lives of other beings, find out where one has been born after the death, see any object at any distance, listen to sounds at any [...]

Some people identify Buddhism as a philosophy. In a way, it is correct. The philosophy of the Buddha is the truth or the exact way of the world. Because the teachings of the Buddha allow one to attain Nibbana ending the suffering of being in the repeating cycle of life, aging, sickness, and death, Buddhism can also be considered as a religion.

There is a great deal of suffering in a life of anyone who was born to this world. Buddhism helps understanding this realty and reveals the one and only path to free one’s self from this entire suffering. Buddhism is the Dhamma that consists of discourses preached by the Buddha. The Dhamma was well taught with a comparable beginning, middle, and an end. Irrelevant of the time of practicing, the Dhamma can be understood in this very own life. Anyone can be asked to come and witness it. Like a person uses a mirror to see the reflected image of himself, [...]