A VISIT TO BUDDHA’S HOME AT VIHARA MAHAVIRA

Nia S. Amira
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In the middle of the heat stung in Jakarta, Buddhists conduct­ing solemn prayers on Vesak Day 2560 Buddhist Era (BE) / 2016 at Vihara Mahavira Graha Cen­tre, Jalan Lodan, North Jakarta, Sun­day, May 22, 2016.

Buddhists come from various regions in Jabodetabek and some even come from Java and Sumatra to perform their ritual worship. This ritual is believed to be in order to get peace and prosperity, and peace.

As presented by Chaokun Hui Siong Mahayanaka, leader and founder of the Buddhist said to his followers that Vihara Mahavira is the commemoration of Vesak and is a moment for humankind to re-learn from the Great Master Sakyamuni Buddha. Life always begins with the birth, life filled with things that are useful and ends with death by trying to always achieve the best life.

“Moment of Vesak also invites in­dividuals to re-train theirself with pa­tience and not affected by the envi­ronment. We must be open to learn from anyone who has the advantages that we do not have, thus there will be more things that we can learn to improve ourselves, “as emphasized by Chaokun Hui Siong Mahayanaka of his important messages.

Vesak celebration has been rec­ognized by the United Nations, in this case was under UNESCO since 1999 and this year entered its 13th year celebration, while the gather­ing Vesak celebration on an inter­national scale were celebrated to­gether in Bangkok in 2004 for the first time.

Advances in technology infor­mation technology and the ease of access in a matter of seconds so that it becomes more value in this era of globalization. Changes of character who always want to become an in­stant resulting negative impact on the individual’s personality. People are increasingly becoming impa­tient and lose their brain in dealing with life’s problems so that the prob­lems were still encountered and are not solved finally completed.

Who is this Buddha’s the wise leader? Siddharta Gautama was born with the name Siddhartha Gautama which in Sanskrit written as Siddhattha Gotama and in Pali language means “descendant of Gotama with the goal is reached”.

The father of Prince Siddhartha Gautama wass His Majesty King Sud­dhodana of the Sakya tribe and his mother was Queen Mahamaya who died seven days after she delivered this charming Prince.

At the time when Buddha was born, two small stream falling from the sky, one cold and the other warm. The flow of the small stream washing Siddhartha’s body. Then, Siddhartha was born in a clean way without stain, stood upright and walked directly to the north, and the places his foot stepped on were overgrown with lotus flowers.

At the age of 7, Prince Siddhartha had 3 lily ponds which are blue lotus pond (Uppala), red lotus pond, and the last color was red (Paduma) and a white lotus (Pundarika).

Siddharta Gautama became Bud­dha meaning that someone has been enlightened. Siddharta Gautama, also known as Shakyamuni or wise man of the Sakya and as Tathagata. Siddhartha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the northeastern re­gion of India which is also the found­er of Buddhism in some local friends in Italy.

The word Vesak means moon ac­cording to the meaning in India, Ve­sak is the month of birth and death of the Buddha and the month of Vesak is the brightest month of the year. Calculation of the Buddhist Era (BE) was calculated from when Bud­dha died and did not follow any re­ligious. Siddharta Gautama himself was born in 623 BE BC.

May the peace of the world is maintained, the nation’s leaders were able to run the trust of their people. Hopefully the season is on time, the State of Indonesia is always prosperous forever. May all living beings are happy.