{"id":26239,"date":"2024-09-01T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:11:10","slug":"guru-padmasambhava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/guru-padmasambhava\/","title":{"rendered":"Guru Padmasambhava"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Guru Padmasambhava:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Guru Padmasambhava, also known as <strong>Guru Rinpoche,<\/strong> lived in the eighth century in ancient India andne of the most-revered figures in Buddha Dhamma.<\/li>\n<li>He was known in Tibet as one of the founding <strong>fathers of Tibetan Buddhism<\/strong>, who appeared in Tibet in 749 A.D.<\/li>\n<li>He is credited with having spread the <strong>message of Lord Buddha<\/strong> to the countries and regions located in the Himalayan belt, including India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet.<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>was a Tantrist<\/strong> and a member of the Yog\u0101c\u0101ra sect and taught at Nalanda, a centre of Buddhist studies in India.<\/li>\n<li>Guru Padamasambhava also represents a consolidation of many strands of culture ranging from <strong>Yogic and Tantric practices to meditation<\/strong>, art, music, dance, magic, folklore and religious teachings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about International Buddhist Confederation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Buddhist umbrella body<\/strong> with its base in New Delhi that serves as a common platform for Buddhists worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It was established under the patronage of the supreme Buddhist religious hierarchy, IBC currently has a membership comprising more than 320 organisations, both monastic and lay, in 39 countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Theravada?<\/h3>\n<p>It means &#8220;Teaching of the Elders&#8221;, is the most conservative and orthodox form of Buddhism.It emphasises attaining liberation from suffering through individual effort and meditation based on Buddha&#8217;s earliest teachings in the Pali Canon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2049093#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>International Buddhist Confederation to organize a Two-day Conference at Nalanda, Bihar on the Life and Legacy of Guru Padmasambhava<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guru Padmasambhava also known as Guru Rinpoche, lived in the eighth century in ancient India andne of the most-revered figures in Buddha Dhamma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}