{"id":215,"date":"2019-06-26T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:29:28","slug":"10-unknown-facts-about-gautam-buddha-or-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/10-unknown-facts-about-gautam-buddha-or-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Unknown Facts About Gautam Buddha Or Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is no doubt that Gautam Buddha (Siddhartha Gautam) was born in Lumbini<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Nepal<\/span><\/a> <\/span>which was entitled a World Heritage Site since 1997. This is the holiest place for Buddhist pilgrimages. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Lord Buddha was born in a Hindu Kshatriya family. He was the son of King Śuddhodana, \"an elected chief of the Shakya clan\" whose capital city was Kapilavastu, which lies in Nepal. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Below are ten unknown facts about Gautam Buddha Or Buddhism:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1) Buddhist monks are not allowed to kill any animal, for any reason, not even pests, and vermin.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) The 3 tallest statues in the world are of Gautam Buddha.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Moreover, In Japan, homosexual relations among Buddhist samurai and clergy were actually quite common.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) Surprisingly there is one pilgrimage site in Sri Lanka that is holy or divine for all four major religions (Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity) for a \"sacred footprint.\"<\/span><\/p>\n

5) In Buddhism, suicide is believed as throwing away a valuable opportunity to generate positive karma.<\/span><\/p>\n

6) Unlike many religions, Buddhism has no single central text that is universally referred to by all traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

7) The Thanboddhay Pagoda in Myanmar has 582,357 Buddha statues.<\/span><\/p>\n

8) As per Buddhism, humans are a part of nature and not separate from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

9) In Buddhism, Karma is the force that drives the cycle of suffering and rebirth for each being.<\/span><\/p>\n

10) The historical Buddha was not obese. The\"chubby Buddha\" or \"laughing Buddha\" is a 10th<\/sup> Century Chinese folk hero by the name of Budai.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides this, About 7 million Buddhists are found outside of Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1) Religious people watch more and more pornographic movies<\/a><\/span>
\n2) Is Sex Allowed During Fasting?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no doubt that Gautam Buddha (Siddhartha Gautam) was born in Lumbini, Nepal which was entitled a World Heritage Site since 1997. This is the holiest place for Buddhist pilgrimages.      Lord Buddha was born in a Hindu Kshatriya family. He was the son of King Śuddhodana, \"an elected chief of the Shakya clan\" ... Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esabthok.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}