Zen came into the fore as an experience in an interaction between Gautama Buddha and Mahakashyap. Keep up the good work, thank you.

ThankU. Eternal Gratitude and Appreciation for sharing and posting.

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Such a beautiful and inspiring story. 🙏🙏🙏

Mahakashyapa along with Rahula and others were chosen by the buddha to remainin the world.Xuyun in his biographie describes the sound of bell coming from the mountain where Kashyapa is suposed to be.

Dhanyavaad

Rarely spoken about is a top down kundalini awakening, in which Guru’s grace touches the top of your head and begins to bring its energy downward till it reaches kundalini’s entry point by the navel area. The process then reverses itself all the way to the fontanel. However, in both cases it is not enough to enter Samadhi.

Namo Budhaya..

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Mahakashyapa (Skt. Mahākāśyapa; Tib. འོད་སྲུང་ཆེན་པོ་, Ösung Chenpo, Wyl. 'od srung chen po) - one of the principle disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni and the first of the seven patriarchs who upheld the Dharma and succeeded to the Buddha as heads of the Buddhist community. He was responsible for holding the first Buddhist council in Rajagriha. It is said he attained the state of an arhat only eight days after his first encounter with the Buddha. Mahakashyapa was known as the foremost of the Buddha's disciples in terms of ascetic discipline.

The timeline is a little awry, or it may just be how it was worded. Your first plate states the Maudgalyāyana and Śāriputra entered Parinirvāṇa that same year as the Buddha did. Then the next plate states that Mahākāśyapa or Ānanda were most suitable to take the reins, but that Ānanda was not yet enlightened. The following plate states that since Ānanda was not yet enlightened so Mahākāśyapa took over. Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana were already dead when the Buddha attained his Parinirvāṇa, they did not die after. Ānanda wasn't in the running period. Like Ānanda, a number of Buddha's disciples had followers who proposed that that particular disciple take over. Remember...many of the Buddha's closest disciples had hundreds if not thousands of followers so there were many disciples, even worldly kings, who they nominated but none of them were taken seriously and it was not debated. Ānanda wasn't even considered by anyone considering he was not an Arhat. He simply was not in the discussion, no one who was yet an arhat was seriously considered. This is important because this was 3-6 months after Maudgalyāyana and Śāriputra entered Parinirvāṇa. The plates suggest a different order - I am not saying there is malintent, I am sure your intentions were good ones. By most accounts, the First Council was three months after the Buddha's Parinirvāṇa. At that First Council, it was essentially a given that Mahākāśyapa would be the next in line, though he was reluctant - remember he was more a recluse, eremitic and an aesthetic that shunned social gatherings. While he was chosen to lead the sangha at that time there were no real agreements on what the sangha was or a codified vinaya. Pūrṇa Maitrāyaniputra, Subhadra, and Upāli were disciples present then and Subhadra felt that since there was not a codified vinaya and Buddha told Ānanda that the "minor" rules could be discarded without saying what those minor rules were, Subhadra felt they should be codified and liberally so. In other words, Subadhra felt they didn't need to be restricted by so many rules. And Pūrṇa felt that, a vinaya or even a codified dharma was unnecessary since he and many of the Buddha's disciples didn't need them - they knew the Buddha's words and didn't need any codification...so he rejected the First Council. In other words, the Buddhist community had members who agreed with a council, disagreed with the council, or felt that whatever the council agreed on was the dharma or vinaya didn't matter but still participated in it. Some broke away, but were still Buddhist and had no leader, some agreed with the First Council and having Mahākāśyapa as next in line. Remember NOTHING was placed down on paper - there were no scriptures for at least 4 centuries after the Buddha died, it was all oral and the communities were varied. There are many lineages of the dharma after the Buddha died and only ONE of them is Mahākāśyapa, and it diversified even more when Ānanda took over after Mahākāśyapa passed.

Where is that MOUNTAIN where mahakashyapa meditated. please.

What happened to his wife ?

Very fast setting, these things we want to imbibe