Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Maya (mother of the Buddha)

Index Maya (mother of the Buddha)

Queen Māyā of Sakya (Māyādevī) was the birth mother of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. [1]

43 relations: Añjana, Abhidharma, Ashoka tree, Śuddhodana, Bharhut, Bodhisattva, Brahmi script, Buddhism, Conception dreams, Deva (Buddhism), Devdaha, Dharma, Enlightenment in Buddhism, Family of Gautama Buddha, Galilean, Gautama Buddha, Guimet Museum, Historical Vedic religion, History of Buddhism, Jesus, Kapilavastu (ancient city), Kartikeya, Koliya, Lalitavistara Sūtra, Litter (vehicle), Lumbini, Lumbini Zone, Madhesi people, Mahapajapati Gotami, Mary, mother of Jesus, Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini, Monotheism, Paris, Paula Fredriksen, Sanchi, Sanskrit, Shakya, Shorea robusta, Standard Tibetan, Suppabuddha, Trāyastriṃśa, Tushita, Yakshini.

Añjana

Añjana was a king of Koliya dynasty of ancient India, a dynasty that was present around the time of Gautama Buddha, according to Buddhist scriptures.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Añjana · See more »

Abhidharma

Abhidharma (Sanskrit) or Abhidhamma (Pali) are ancient (3rd century BCE and later) Buddhist texts which contain detailed scholastic reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras, according to schematic classifications.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Abhidharma · See more »

Ashoka tree

Ashoka tree is a common name for two plants which are frequently confused with each other.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Ashoka tree · See more »

Śuddhodana

Śuddhodana (Pali: Suddhōdana), meaning "he who grows pure rice," was a leader of the Shakya, who lived in an oligarchic republic with their capital at Kapilavastu.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Śuddhodana · See more »

Bharhut

Bharhut (Hindi: भरहुत) is a village located in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, central India.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Bharhut · See more »

Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Bodhisattva · See more »

Brahmi script

Brahmi (IAST) is the modern name given to one of the oldest writing systems used in Ancient India and present South and Central Asia from the 1st millennium BCE.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Brahmi script · See more »

Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Buddhism · See more »

Conception dreams

Conception dreams are dreams that are said to foretell the conception or birth of a child, dreamt by the future mother or people close to her.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Conception dreams · See more »

Deva (Buddhism)

A deva (देव Sanskrit and Pāli, Mongolian tenger (тэнгэр)) in Buddhism is one of many different types of non-human beings who share the godlike characteristics of being more powerful, longer-lived, and, in general, much happier than humans, although the same level of veneration is not paid to them as to buddhas.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Deva (Buddhism) · See more »

Devdaha

www.visitdevdaha.com Devdaha (Dev Daha, देवदह) is a municipality in Rupandehi District of Nepal, the ancient capital of Koliya Kingdom, located 57 km east of Lumbini and east of Butwal and shares a border with Nawalparasi district on the east side.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Devdaha · See more »

Dharma

Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Dharma · See more »

Enlightenment in Buddhism

The English term enlightenment is the western translation of the term bodhi, "awakening", which was popularised in the Western world through the 19th century translations of Max Müller.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Enlightenment in Buddhism · See more »

Family of Gautama Buddha

The Buddha was born into a family of the kshatriya varna in Lumbini, Nepal in 563 BCE.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Family of Gautama Buddha · See more »

Galilean

Generically, a Galilean is an inhabitant of Galilee.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Galilean · See more »

Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Gautama Buddha · See more »

Guimet Museum

The Guimet Museum (Musée national des arts asiatiques or Musée Guimet) is an art museum located at 6, place d'Iéna in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Guimet Museum · See more »

Historical Vedic religion

The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedism, Brahmanism, Vedic Brahmanism, and ancient Hinduism) was the religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Historical Vedic religion · See more »

History of Buddhism

The history of Buddhism spans from the 5th century BCE to the present.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and History of Buddhism · See more »

Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Jesus · See more »

Kapilavastu (ancient city)

Kapilavastu was an ancient city on the Indian subcontinent which was the capital of Shakya.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Kapilavastu (ancient city) · See more »

Kartikeya

Kartikeya (IAST), also known as Murugan, Skanda, Kumara, and Subrahmanya, is the Hindu god of war.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Kartikeya · See more »

Koliya

The Koliyas were Kshatriya of the Adicca (Iksvaku) clan of the Solar Dynasty during the time of Gautama Buddha.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Koliya · See more »

Lalitavistara Sūtra

The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from the time of his descent from Tushita until his first sermon in the Deer Park near Varanasi.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Lalitavistara Sūtra · See more »

Litter (vehicle)

The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of persons.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Litter (vehicle) · See more »

Lumbini

Lumbinī (Nepali and Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Province No. 5 in Nepal.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Lumbini · See more »

Lumbini Zone

Lumbini (लुम्बिनी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restruction of zones to Provinces.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Lumbini Zone · See more »

Madhesi people

The term Madhesi people (मधेशी) is ambiguous.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Madhesi people · See more »

Mahapajapati Gotami

Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (Pali; Sanskrit Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī) was the step-mother and maternal aunt (mother's sister) of Buddha.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Mahapajapati Gotami · See more »

Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Mary, mother of Jesus · See more »

Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini

Maya Devi Temple is an ancient Buddhist temple situated at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lumbini, Nepal.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini · See more »

Monotheism

Monotheism has been defined as the belief in the existence of only one god that created the world, is all-powerful and intervenes in the world.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Monotheism · See more »

Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Paris · See more »

Paula Fredriksen

Paula F. Fredriksen (born January 6, 1951, Kingston, Rhode Island) is an American historian and a scholar of religious studies.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Paula Fredriksen · See more »

Sanchi

Sanchi Stupa, also written Sanci, is a Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, on a hilltop at Sanchi Town in Raisen District of the State of Madhya Pradesh, India.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Sanchi · See more »

Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Sanskrit · See more »

Shakya

The Shakya (Sanskrit:, Devanagari: शाक्य; Pali:,, or) were a clan of the late Vedic India (c. 1000 – c. 500 BCE) and during the so-called second urbanisation period (c. 600 – c. 200 BCE) in the Indian subcontinent (present-day nations of India and Nepal).

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Shakya · See more »

Shorea robusta

Shorea robusta, also known as śāl, sakhua or shala tree, is a species of tree belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae family.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Shorea robusta · See more »

Standard Tibetan

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Standard Tibetan · See more »

Suppabuddha

(Sanskrit) Suppabuddha, or (Pali) Suppabuddha was the son of Añjana and an unknown prince.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Suppabuddha · See more »

Trāyastriṃśa

The (Sanskrit; Pali) heaven is an important world of the devas in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Trāyastriṃśa · See more »

Tushita

Tushita or Tusita (meaning "realm, contentment") is the fourth of the six deva or heavenly realms of Kamadhatu, located between the "Yāmā deva" realm and the "Nirmanarati deva" realm.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Tushita · See more »

Yakshini

Yakshini (also known as Yakshi; Yakkhini in Pali) are mythical beings of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology.

New!!: Maya (mother of the Buddha) and Yakshini · See more »

Redirects here:

Maha Maya, Maya (Mother of Buddha), Maya (mother of Buddha), Maya Devi, Mayadevi, Māyādevī, Queen Maha Maya, Queen Maya, Queen Māyā of Sakya.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(mother_of_the_Buddha)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »