Kumashpur, the Glossary
Kumashpur, also spelled Kumaspur and Kumaspura, is a village within Municipal Corporation of Sonipat in Sonipat district of Haryana state in India.[1]
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42 relations: Bodh Stupa, Buddhist ethics, Buddhist pilgrimage sites, Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, Buddhist texts, Chandigarh, Chinese language, Cottage, Five precepts, Global Vipassana Pagoda, Golden Pagoda, Namsai, Grand Trunk Road, Hindu texts, Hindus, Kashmiri Gate, Delhi, Kaurava, Kuru Kingdom, Lion's Roar (magazine), Mahabharata, Maharana Pratap Inter State Bus Terminus, Majjhima Nikāya, Marwari people, National Highway 1 (India), Nirvana (Buddhism), Padma Bhushan, Pagoda, Pali, Pali Canon, Pali Text Society, S. N. Goenka, Samatha-vipassana, Sanātanī, Sati (Buddhism), Satipatthana Sutta, Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Sonipat district, Sonipat Junction railway station, The Buddha, Theravada, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vedic period, Yoga.
- Buddhist sites in India
- Kuru Kingdom
- Pagodas in India
- Villages in Sonipat district
Bodh Stupa
The Bodh Stupa is situated (29° 57′ 46″ N 76° 49′ 15″ E) near the Fine Arts Department in the north-east region of Kurukshetra University, in Haryana, 160 km from Delhi, India. Kumashpur and Bodh Stupa are Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, Buddhist sites in India and pagodas in India.
Buddhist ethics
Buddhist ethics are traditionally based on the enlightened perspective of the Buddha.
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Buddhist pilgrimage sites
The most important places in Buddhism are located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of southern Nepal and northern India.
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Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India
In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. Kumashpur and Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India are Buddhist sites in India.
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Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
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Chandigarh
Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana.
Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Cottage
A cottage, during England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or bordar) of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord.
Five precepts
The five precepts (italic; italic) or five rules of training (italic; italic) is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people.
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Global Vipassana Pagoda
The Global Vipassana Pagoda is a Meditation dome hall with a capacity to seat around 8,000 Vipassana meditators (the largest such meditation hall in the world) near Gorai, in the north western part of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Kumashpur and Global Vipassana Pagoda are pagodas in India.
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Golden Pagoda, Namsai
The Golden Pagoda of Namsai, also known as Kongmu Kham, in the Tai-Khamti language, is a Burmese-style Buddhist temple that was opened in 2010. Kumashpur and Golden Pagoda, Namsai are pagodas in India.
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Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads.
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Hindu texts
Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Kashmiri Gate, Delhi
Kashmiri Gate or Kashmere Gate is a gate located in Old Delhi in UT of Delhi, India.
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Kaurava
Kaurava is a Sanskrit term which refers to descendants of Kuru, a legendary king of India who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the epic Mahabharata.
Kuru Kingdom
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharatas and other Puru clans.
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Lion's Roar (magazine)
Lion's Roar (previously Shambhala Sun) is an independent, bimonthly magazine (in print and online) that offers a nonsectarian view of "Buddhism, Culture, Meditation, and Life".
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Maharana Pratap Inter State Bus Terminus
The Maharana Pratap Interstate Bus Terminus (Maharana Pratap ISBT), popularly known as Kashmere Gate Interstate Bus Terminus (Kashmere Gate ISBT), located in Delhi, is the oldest and one of the biggest Inter-State Bus Terminals in India.
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Majjhima Nikāya
The Majjhima Nikāya ("Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture collection, the second of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka (lit. "Three Baskets") of Theravada Buddhism.
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Marwari people
The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India.
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National Highway 1 (India)
National Highway 1 (NH 1) in India runs between the union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
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Nirvana (Buddhism)
Nirvana (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; IAST:; Pali) is the extinguishing of the passions, the "blowing out" or "quenching" of the activity of the grasping mind and its related unease.
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Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri.
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Pagoda
A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia.
Pali
Pāli, also known as Pali-Magadhi, is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language on the Indian subcontinent.
Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language.
Pali Text Society
The Pāli Text Society is a text publication society founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids "to foster and promote the study of Pāli texts." Pāli is the language in which the texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism are preserved.
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S. N. Goenka
Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: Satynārāyaṇ Goynkā;; 30 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of vipassanā meditation.
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Samatha-vipassana
(Sanskrit: शमथ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquility of awareness," and (Pāli; Sanskrit: विपश्यना; Sinhala: විදර්ශනා), literally "special, super, seeing", are two qualities of the mind developed in tandem in Buddhist practice.
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Sanātanī
Sanātanī (Devanagari: सनातनी) is a modern term used to describe Hindu duties that incorporate teachings from the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and other Hindu religious texts and scriptures such as the Ramayana and its many versions, as well as the Mahabharata (incl. the Bhagavad Gita), which itself is often described as a concise guide to Hindu philosophy and a practical, self-contained guide to life.
Sati (Buddhism)
Sati (सति; स्मृति smṛti), literally "memory" or "retention", commonly translated as mindfulness, "to remember to observe," is an essential part of Buddhist practice.
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Satipatthana Sutta
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 10: The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), and the subsequently created Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya 22: The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), are two of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism, acting as the foundation for contemporary vipassana meditation practice.
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Sayagyi U Ba Khin
Sayagyi U Ba Khin (ဘခင်,; 6 March 1889 – 19 January 1971) was the first Accountant General of the Union of Burma.
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Sonipat district
Sonipat district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in North India.
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Sonipat Junction railway station
Sonipat Junction railway station is located in Sonipat district in the Indian state of Haryana.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
Theravada
Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review is an independent, nonsectarian Buddhist quarterly that publishes Buddhist teachings, practices, and critique.
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Vedic period
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age, is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain BCE.
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Yoga
Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).
See also
Buddhist sites in India
- Adi Badri, Haryana
- Agroha Mound
- Amaravati Stupa
- Anoma River
- Bairat Temple
- Bodh Stupa
- Buddhist caves in India
- Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India
- Chaneti Buddhist Stupa
- Kumashpur
- Nagarjunakonda
- Sugh Ancient Mound
- Sujata Stupa
- Topra Kalan
Kuru Kingdom
Pagodas in India
Villages in Sonipat district
- Bali Qutubpur
- Bichpari
- Dhanana, Sonipat
- Farmana, Sonipat
- Jakhauli, Sonipat
- Jasrana, Sonipat
- Kathura
- Khanda, Sonipat
- Khanpur Kalan
- Khewra, Sonipat
- Kumashpur
- Nahri, Sonipat
- Nirthan
- Rai, Sonipat
- Rajpur, Sonipat
- Silana, Sonipat
- Sisana, Sonipat
- Thana Khurd, Sonipat