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    One Hundred Buddhas
    One Hundred Buddhas
    One Hundred Buddhas
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    One Hundred Buddhas

    By Satyapal Anand

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    Culled from Buddhas own sermons, rare books, and manuscripts describing his life and times, this compendium of poetic monologues and dialogues is probably the only one in English that presents salient features of Buddhism of various shades. Satyapal Anand claims to be of the progeny of Anand, the senior most disciple and confidante of Buddha. Poetry and religion mix wonderfully, and Anands poems touch subjects such as ahimsa (nonviolence), sex, meat eating and self-defense. Some of the conventional view have been challenged and laid bare by Buddhas own words. Anands claim to authenticity is his poetic truth that he considers more reliable than mere books.

    These poems were first published in Urdu and were hailed as the first ever endeavor to present Buddhas teaching through the modern poetic idiom. To render topics like sex desire in young monks and meat eating if it was given as bhiksha (alms) were indeed controversial, but more so were Buddhas own lapses. Does he still feel lust for the other sex? asks Anand, and he replies in affirmative. Doesnt he have a guilty conscience in abandoning his wife and child? asks Anand, and Buddhas answer is still aye, but he defends it too. Is he going to get nirvana (freedom from the birth cycle) after this life? His answer is in the negative. He visualizes that he would be born as Jesus in his next birth and get nirvana only after he is crucified. So are some of his answers on the existence of God, hell or heaven, and whether or not this earth itself is either of these two.

    Having taught English and comparative literature in universities in India, England, Canada, and USA, Satyapal Anand now lives a secluded life in a suburb of Washington, DC.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2011
    ISBN9781466904910
    One Hundred Buddhas
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    Satyapal Anand

    An octogenarian author, Satyapal Anand (born in 1931) is a well-known Urdu and English poet. He has published forty books in Urdu and no fewer than a dozen in English. Poetry, prose, literary criticism, history, cultural synthesis of the East and the West, and religion, with particular reference to Buddhism, are his chosen subjects. A retired university professor of English, with a distinctive record in the field of comparative literature, Satyapal Anand is an expert in curriculum planning and course designing in this field. As a poet in Urdu, a language spoken and written by more than a billion people of Indo-Pak subcontinent, he is known to have blazed a trail by introducing a modern (read: European) tinge to it. Born in the prepartition of India (an area now in Pakistan), Satyapal Anand has had half a century of teaching career at the university level in diverse universities of India, Saudi Arabia, England, and North America. Having retired from active classroom teaching, he now teaches a couple of online courses but largely keeps himself busy not only in creative writing but also in making trips to address literary seminars in Europe, India, and Pakistan. After the demise of his wife, Satyapal Anand lives all by himself in a quiet neighborhood in Herndon, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC.

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      One Hundred Buddhas - Satyapal Anand

      © Copyright 2011 Satyapal Anand.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      isbn: 978-1-4669-0489-7 (sc)

      isbn: 978-1-4669-0490-3 (hc)

      isbn: 978-1-4669-0491-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011961157

      Trafford rev. 11/23/2011

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      Contents

      Images of Buddha icons & paintings

      Poetic Dialogues

      JESUS CHRIST

      LIMITS OF ACCEPTANCE

      ALMS IN REVERSE ORDER

      WEALTH

      THE SEED

      THE PERPETUAL RUNNER

      THE TROPHY

      A PERSONAL DECISION

      APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP

      ONE WHO LOST

      THE BATTLE FOR HER BODY

      HELL

      BEING AND NON-BEING

      MEAT EATING

      JOY AND SORROW

      JOY AND SORROW—2

      JOY AND SORROW—3

      THE DEMON MARRA

      MARRA’S ELDER DAUGHTER

      MARRA’S YOUNGER DAUGHTER

      I AM NOT PERFECT, O’ ANAND

      Thus Spake Buddha

      to the Crowd

      PROGENITIVE DESIRE

      THE SECRET OF LONGEVITY—1

      SECRET OF LONGEVITY—2

      THE SECRET OF LONGEVITY—3

      SUBSTANCE AND SHADOW

      EARTH

      AIR

      WATER

      FIRE

      AAKASH

      END NOTES

      Sanskrit and Pali terms explained

      Alokteshwra%20with%20100%20arms.j-%202g.jpg

      Original Icon from Malaysia 3rd Century A.D.

      CONFESSION

      The topics, motifs, threads and themes for these poems have been taken from divers material about Buddha’s life and teachings, including folk tales in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Japan, China and Tibet. The poet makes no claim of originality in thought and content. These poems, at best, belong to the genre of poetic fiction. Since Buddha’s teachings have been diversely interpreted by various schools of thought in Buddhism, the poet has felt free to glean from their wide spectrum.

      FOR

      PRAMOD

      The Introductory Poem

      BUDDHAM SHARNAN GACHCHAMI

      (I seek shelter with thee, O Buddha)

      *Who, in truth, the Buddha was?

      A cry of pain, a cry against fate

      The tyranny of desire forever to break?

      What did the Buddha do?

      He sat down under the Bo-Tree

      Till he felt he had only just to be.

      What did the Buddha attain?

      He saw a light, he heard a chime

      On wings of nothing he flew out o’ time.

      Where did Buddha go?

      He went to seek alms from rich and poor

      Opening to inflow of his Buddhi every door.

      What did the Buddha preach?

      Seek not permanence in a passing show

      In the darkness of power make love lamps glow.

      Where is the sage Buddha today?

      In the births and deaths of creatures all

      Disease is a cure and freedom is thrall.

      When will the Buddha return?

      No Buddha did come, no Buddha did go

      No God, No Self, No Way, You Know.

      (*Translated from Pali by Dr. Mohan Singh Diwana)

      Images of Buddha icons & paintings

      1. A rare picture of Anand

      2. A row of Buddha icons

      3. Altar—Buddha in Brahmanic tradition

      4. Aokteshwara with 100 arms

      5. Eyes—Gold Buddha

      6. Amalgam of Buddhist and Krishna art traditions

      7. Buddha—golden face with a crown

      8. Buddha—a Japanese version

      9. Buddha icon from Thailand

      10. Buddha on lotus petals

      11. Tibetan Art depicting the demon Marra

      12. Buddha with Malaysian features

      13. The Fasting Buddha: Gandhara art: Pakistan

      14. Buddha Box

      15. Buddhist art and Hindu goddess cult art

      16. Death ushering in Nirvana

      17. Anand’s beguilement by Marra as fire

      18. Buddha with South East Asian features

      19. Amalgam of Buddhist and Krishna art traditions

      20. Hindu influence is evident in this painting

      21. The inscription typifies a Sutra

      22. Amalgam of Buddhist and Krishna art traditions

      23. Reclining Buddha in Kushinagra—India

      24. Sahastrabahu Buddha

      25. Soft-featured Buddha

      26. Kala Chakra Mantra Drawing

      27. Thai Buddha

      28. Thai Buddha

      29. Thai Buddha Seated

      30. Thailand (Siamese) Buddha

      31. Soft-featured Buddha

      32. Buddha with Southeast Asian features

      Poetic Dialogues

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      JESUS CHRIST

      And then it so happened.

      The crowd in the congregation dispersed

      and even the last bhikshu, chanting his mantra

      Buddham Sharnan Gachhami departed.

      The Master was all by himself, alone

      sitting cross-legged on his asana.

      He was sunk in deep meditation.

      He had told his disciples

      that he would be busy for many days

      visualizing his next life in the birth cycle,

      that a single span was the only one that remained

      and he would achieve the nirvana,

      his release from the birth-death cyclic chain.

      Anand, sitting next to him

      spoke in a low tone,

      "O’, the first among equals,

      my master in this and other lives,

      now grant me my wish

      to give up your companionship

      as I also want to get my nirvana

      after this life span is over."

      Buddha spoke,

      "Which nirvana, O Anand, my first disciple?

      which nirvana are you talking about?

      Is it the same for which I,

      your master and mentor,

      have been tirelessly running

      Thailand%20(Siamese)%20Buddha.jpg

      from one birth to another?

      Changing my paths evenly and alternately,

      O Anand, I have as yet not found my nirvana.

      I have only reached

      The present link in my birth cycle,

      the link that you know as Buddha.

      Come, speak up fearlessly,

      O’ my first disciple!"

      Hands folded, Anand spoke again,

      "O Tathagata,

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