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	General Essay on Buddhism
		A second council, which is said to have taken place a century after the Buddha's death, took place at Vaisali.
		The purpose of this council was to consider allegations that certain monks at Vaisali permitted ten practices that contravened the rules of conduct of the Vinaya.
		The Vaisali Council condemned these practices, after which the Council was closed.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/budsm/geness.html (2527 words)

	Vaishali, Travel to Vaishali, Vaishali Hotel, Vaishali Tourism, Vaishali Travel Guide, Vaishali Travel Agency, What to ...
		Vaisali: The nearest rail station of Vaisali is Muzaffarpur which is 587 km away from Calcutta by Kathgodam, Mithila, Gofakhpur and Muzaffarpur Express Trains.
		Vaisali is also connected with the large towns of the State with bus routes.
		The founder of the Jain religion, Vardhamana Mahavira (the last Jain Tirthankara, 500 BC) was born in the village of Kumbha in the subarb of Vaisali.
	www.seemyindia.com /bihar/bihar-vaishali.html (274 words)

	Temples And Legends Of Bihar - Vaisali ( Introduction) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Temples And Legends Of Bihar - Vaisali (Introduction)
		Vaisali was once a prosperous town and the centre of Jain culture.
		Vaisali is a village connected by road with the headquarters of a sub-division of Hajipur, Muzaffarpur district, as well as with Muzaffarpur, the district headquarters town.
	www.hindubooks.org /temples/bihar/vaisali/index.htm (103 words)

	Bharathan
		In the epic story, Vaisali was an insignificant character – daughter of royal mistress, mastered in Vatsyayana Shastra.
		She was to attract Rishyashrunga, the son of great sage Vibhadanka, and bring him to the land of Lomapada to end the draught.
		Quite characteristic to his style, when M.T gave prominence to Vaisali, it was to achieve a new dimension.
	www.freespaces.com /lanternoflife/b.htm (870 words)

	Lion Capitol at the Monkey Pond, Vaisali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		at the Monkey Pond in Vaisali, emplaced during the reign of King Ashoka (273-236 BC).
		Vaisali is the capital city of the world's oldest known republic, the Vrjian Confederacy.
		The Buddha often visited Vaisali where he was a welcome guest for over forty years.
	www.turtlehill.org /india/india2/lion.html (162 words)

	WELCOME: WWW.JAINSAMAJ.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The parents of Bhagwan Mahavira and his maternal uncle Cetaka, the head of the Licchavi Republic of Vaisali, were the followers of Bhagavan Parsva Who had strengthened and popularised the philosophy of spiritualism and self-realization as against materialism nature workship.
		Videha with its capital at Vaisali was the biggest unit.
		Vaisali was not only the capital of entire Vajji Republic.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/adventofmahavira.htm (1689 words)

	Temples And Legends Of Bihar - Vaisali ( Page 6) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vaisali was selected as the site for rearing an institution for the study of Jainology.
		A small museum has been sponsored at Vaisali itself and a large number of finds are kept there.
		While sojourning at Vaisali, Buddha permitted the nuns to enter the Sangh, against his personal wishes, at the request of Ananda, his favourite disciple, and his foster mother, Maha Prajapati, became the first Buddhist nun at Vaisali.
	www.hindubooks.org /temples/bihar/vaisali/page6.htm (160 words)

	Footsteps of Buddha Tour to India
		Fa-hien and Hiuentsang there were numerous shrines existed at Vaisali and the Tibetian monk Dharmaswamin who visited Vaisali in the thirteenth century refers to a miraculous stone image of the goddess Tara that he had seen at Vaisali.
		Vaisali, the capital of the Lichchhavi kings was the birth place of Nigantanathaputra, the 24th Jain ascetic according to Jainism.
		Vaisali is connected with the life story of Buddha mainly because it was that he proclaimed that his Parinirvana would take place with in a short time.
	www.divinerevelation.org /Buddha.html (3016 words)

	Practical Pilgrim: Vaisali: First Stop To Enlightenment
		“Pleasant are its shrines and gardens.” The first thing you notice about Vaisali, Siddhartha’s first stop on his quest for enlightenment, are the trees, tall and with immense parasol foliage.
		Indeed, during the time of the Buddha, Vaisali was renowned as one of the most beautiful cities in India, counting among its many charms hundreds of lotus ponds and ten square miles of broad lanes lined with mango and banana trees.
		The trees of Vaisali are memorialized in an image carved almost two thousand years ago on the great stupa at Sanchi, three hundred miles to the south.
	www.tricycle.com /issues/tricycle/14_1/columns/54-1.html (154 words)

	city information of bodhgaya, rajgir, nalanda, vaisali
		In Vaisali (which is also the birthplace of Lord Mahavira) there are the ruins of two stupas which were built to commemorate the Second Buddhist Council.
		The impressive Lion Capital was raised by Asoka to commemorate the Buddha's last sermon.
		Road : Vaisali is connected by road to Patna (55 km), Muzaffarpur (36 km), and Hajipur (35 km).
	www.jetairtours.com /bod.htm (689 words)

	The Five Rivers of the Buddhists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		41 Fa-Hian tells us that a journey of four yojanas to the east from Vaisali brought him to "the confluence of the five rivers," and that then, crossing the river (the Ganges) and going south for one yojana, he arrived at Pataliputra in the kingdom of Magadha.
		Fa-hian reached the confluence of the five rivers and the crossing-place of the Ganges by going four yojanas to the east from Vaisali.
		This locates Vaisali, or some part of it, about four yojanas to the west from Paleza Ghat.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/rivers5.htm (1578 words)

	The Buddhist Stupa at Vaisali
		Soon after his enlightenment, the Buddha received a request to come to Vaisali to end an epidemic.
		These are the ruins of the Great Stupa of Vaisali, one of the eight original stupas built to enshrine the relics of the Buddha.
		The Buddha explained that it was not possible to vanquish the Vrjis so long as they observed the following seven principles insuring the stability of a nation.
	www.turtlehill.org /india/india2/vais.html (525 words)

	Kushinagar, Buddhist Places in India, Buddhist Temples
		Here the Buddha was taken ill, but he suppressed the sickness and continued to Vaisali.
		This was a city where Shakyamuni had often stayed in the beautiful parks that had been offered to him.
		While staying at Vaisali, Buddha thrice mentioned to Ananda a buddha's ability to remain alive until the end of the aeon.
	www.atriptoindia.com /buddha/kushinagar.htm (1353 words)

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		A rich man called Vimalakirti was in the Vaisali city at the time.
		His face came to be known also in a Vaisali city.
		But, the extension was repeated every year and it became the leading great store in Vaisali city in during several years.
	kobe.cool.ne.jp /w7b/ge_007.htm (1411 words)

	2005 « December « Festivals In India
		Vaisali / Vaishali Mahotsava is a very big celebration for the peoples of India.
		Vaisali / Vaishali Mahotsava is a very good festival which can be celebrated all over the India speacially in Vaisali (Vaishali) with a greate joy and happiness.
		The vaisali / vaishali mahotsava can be celebrated once in a calendar year.
	www.festivalsindia.com /2005/12 (717 words)

	SHLOKA - 6 IN EKATMATA STOTRA
		An ancient city of Bihar, capital city of the Licchavi republic that had the honour of being the capital of the entire Vajji Sangha, this city was, at one time, well known in the entire country for its grandeur and its prosperity.
		The twenty-fourth Jain Tirthankar, Vardhaman Mahavira was born in Vaisali itself.
		Vaisali is said to be so named on the name of the king Visala, belonging to the Iksavaku Dynasty.
	www.hssworld.org /homepage/html/boudhik/ekatmata_stotra/SHLOKA_06.HTML (2430 words)

	Jain World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Licchavis were recognized all round as high born Ksatriyas, with whom the highest born princes of Eastern India, and not only Eastern India but also as far west as Sindhu-Sauvira, considered it an honor to enter into matrimonial alliance.
		Like the Licchavis, the Vajji, who in fact cannot be strictly differentiated from the Licchavis, came under the influence of Lord Mahavira, for Vaisali seems to have been regarded also as the metropolis of the entire Vajji confederacy.
		The last few rainy seasons were spent at Rajgrha, Vanijyagrama, Vaisali, Vaisali again, Rajgrha Nalanda, Vaisali, Mithila, Rajgrha, Nalanda, Mithila, Mithila again, Rajgrha, until at the age of 72 he attained Nirvana on Kartika Amavasya at Pavapuri.
	www.jainworld.com /book/mahavira/ch10a.asp (2346 words)

	3. The Universe Is The Scripture[Fn#107] Of Zen Page 3
		Then the monks at Vaisali committed the so-called Ten Indulgences, infringing the rules of the Order, and maintained that Shakya Muni had not condemned them in his preachings.
		As there were, however, no written sutras to disprove their assertion, the elders, such as Yaca, Revata, and others, who opposed the Indulgences, had to convoke the second council of 700 monks, in which they succeeded in getting the Indulgences condemned, and rehearsed the Buddha's instruction for the second time.
		The decisions of the 700 elders were not accepted by the party of opposition, who held a separate council, and settled their own rules and doctrine.
	www.web-books.com /classics/Nonfiction/Religion/Samurai/SamuraiC4P3.htm (977 words)

	A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. ...
		He therefore, that great protector of Buddhism, would seem to be intended here; but the difficulty with me is that neither in Hardy nor Rockhill, nor any other writer, have I met with any manifestation of himself made by Indra on this occasion.
		The princes of Kusanagara were called mallas, “strong or mighty heroes;” so also were those of Pava and Vaisali; and a question arises whether the language may not refer to some story which Fa-hien had heard,—something which they did on this great occasion.
		The second synod was held at Vaisali, as related in the next chapter.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2124/62.html (616 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Normally girls were given in marriage to coreligionists only Maharaja Keka's daughter Trisala was married to Siddhartha.
		The picture of the Vaisali Republic changed into the picture of an Empire in the imagination of the king.
		The picture of Vast Empire was grand, but Siddhartha was stunned to imagine that the values and ideals which the ganademocracy had cherished and practiced will come to an end with the establishment of the expected Empire.
	jainsamaj.org /literature/familylife.htm (5452 words)

	iMeditate OnLine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was praised, honored, and commended by all the Buddhas and was respected by Indra, Brahma, and all the Lokapalas.
		Thus lived the Licchavi Vimalakirti in the great city of Vaisali, endowed with an infinite knowledge of skill in liberative techniques.
		To inquire after his health, the king, the officials, the lords, the youths, the aristocrats, the householders, the businessmen, the townfolk, the countryfolk, and thousands of other living beings came forth from the great city of Vaisali and called on the invalid.
	www.imeditate.com /vimalakirti/vimalakirti02.html (1455 words)

	History of Buddhism, the Buddhist councils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Upali and Ananda, two of the Buddha's chief disciples, said to have recited the Vinaya Pithaka and Sutta Pitaka infront of the gathering.
		The orthodox followers of the Buddha believed that the monks of Vaisali were taking liberties with the rules prescribed in the Vinaya Pitaka.
		The first school advocated strict adherence to the age old traditions of Buddhism and compliance with the original teachings of the Buddha.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /buddhism/buddhistcouncils.asp (1014 words)

	A slice of mango
		Another important episode from the life of the Buddha connected with the fruit is his meeting with Amrapali, a famous public woman of Vaisali and a renowned courtesan of the times.
		When she was old enough, her foster father took her to the city of Vaisali where in time she grew up to be a strikingly beautiful and intelligent woman.
		It was owing to her personal attraction that Vaisali became a prosperous city.
	www.mid-day.com /smd/eat/2003/may/51837.htm (2034 words)

	MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
		Transition to an urban civilization was made in the 2 nd century BC.
		A number of cities flourished, among them Wethali (Vaisali) of the Rakhines, Thuwannabhumi (Suvannabhumi, "Land of Gold") of the Mons, and Beikthano (Vishnu City), Hanlin and Thayekhittaya (Sriksetra, "Field of Splendour") of the Pyus, a people whose language has become extinct but whose architectural monuments - the Bawbawgyi, Payagyi and Payama pagoda of Fhayekhittaya remain.
		Myanmar civilization achieved a high level of development at Bagan from the middle of the 11th century to the end of the 13th century.
	www.modins.net /myanmarinfo/facts/history.htm (1574 words)

	Manjula - Woman with the magic touch
		After co-producing Maheshbabu's latest blockbuster `Pokiri' with director Puri Jagannath, she has recently entered television as well.
		Her telefilm `Vaisali', topping TRP ratings, has been a success and Manjula has been asked to produce telefilms regularly for the channel Zee Telugu.
		Now she is busy with her next telefilm "Women's Club" which deals with three women who grow up to become role models.
	www.chennaionline.com /film/Telugu/2006/08t-news03.asp (875 words)

	Buddhist Studies: Disciples of the Buddha: Ananda
		Once when Buddha returned to his homeland to preach, King Suklodana was afraid that Buddha would influence Ananda so after meeting Buddha, he brought Ananda to Vaisali so that there would be less opportunity of Ananda meeting Buddha.
		To avoid the frequent begging from his foster mother, the Buddha went to preach in Namantini monastery which was not far from Vaisali.
		Ananda felt it was unfair of him to enter Nirvana in either country as one of them would not be able to have his remaining relics so he decided to enter Nirvana in the boundary of both countries which was the middle of river Ganges.
	buddhanet.net /e-learning/history/db_04.htm (3707 words)

	Forest Sangha Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We are staying at a small temple of Nipponzan Myohoji on the side of the ancient coronation tank at Vaisali.
		Much of the journey has the predictable qualities of tudong: the great spirit and freedom of it, and the blistered feet, grime, sweat and fatigue.
		In due course we plan to be in Bodh-Gaya, and from there go on a long walk in the southern Bihar hills before turning to Sarnath, where the Buddha gave his First Sermon...
	www.fsnewsletter.net /16/pilg.htm (5663 words)

	4 arrested for burning 5 children and mother
		Police have arrested four persons in connection with an incident in which a woman and her five minor children were torched to death in their mud hut in Rampur Shyamchand village under Raghopur in the Vaisali district of Bihar.
		Vaisali Superintendent of Police Prita Verma said a special police team was constituted to nab the killers.
		The team had raided several villages in search to arrest them.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/jan/03burn.htm (265 words)

	Vimalakirti
		The Lord Buddha was in residence in the garden of Amrapali, in the city of Vaisali, attended by a great gathering.
		Dominating all the multitudes, just as Sumeru, the king of mountains, looms high over the oceans, the Lord Buddha shone, radiated, and glittered as he sat upon his magnificent lion-throne.
		Thereupon, the Licchavi bodhisattva Ratnakara, with five hundred Licchavi youths, each holding a precious parasol made of seven different kinds of jewels, came forth from the city of Vaisali and presented himself at the grove of Amrapali.
	www.purifymind.com /Vimalakirti.html (6744 words)

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