Māra (Buddhist demon)
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Name (Latin)
Māra (Buddhist demon)
Other forms of name
Bdud (Buddhist demon)
Ma (Buddhist demon)
Mo (Buddhist demon)
Móluó (Buddhist demon)
Tiānmó (Buddhist demon)
Other designation
Buddhist demon
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF:
19160907211812692423
Wikidata:
Q1352021
Library of congress:
no2020148156
OCoLC:
oca13404476
DLC:
no2020148156
LIBRARY_OF_CONGRESS:
9817466833300041
Sources of Information
- Marble fragment with two horizontal panels showing Mara's Assault and Great Departure of Buddha, Amaravati Region, Andhra Pradesh, India, ca. 2nd century A.D., via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, December 21, 2020
- Mara (demon) (Sanskrit Māra; Japanese Māra; Chinese Tiānmo/Móluó; Tibetan Bdud; in Buddhism, the demonic celestial king who tempted Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters; In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is associated with death, rebirth and desire; Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment ( (Wikipedia, December 21, 2020:) )
- Māra, Buddhist demon (the Buddhist "Lord of the Senses," who was the Buddha's temptor on several occasions ( (Britannica online website, December 21, 2020:) )
- Mara (in Buddhism, Mara is the demon who assaulted Gautama Buddha beneath the bodhi tree, using violence, sensory pleasure and mockery in an attempt to prevent the Buddha from attaining enlightenment; in Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the "death" of the spiritual life ( (New World Encyclopedia website, December 21, 2020:) )
- Māra; Tibetan: Bdud; Chinese: Mo; Japanese: Ma; Korean: Ma; the personification of evil in Buddhism and often referred to as the Buddhist "devil" or "demon" ( (Princeton dictionary of Buddhism, viewed December 21, 2020) )
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Māra
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Wikipedia description:
Mara, in Buddhism, is a malignant celestial Asura king who tried to stop Prince Siddhartha from Awakening by trying to seduce him with his celestial Army and a vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is associated with death, rebirth and desire. Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment." He is Yama's fearsome persona and all beings associated with him, darkness and death, become forces of Mara. These forces consist of Asuras, Rakshasa, Pisacas, Aratis and animals.
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