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Celebrating Bodhi Day (December 8), the Day of the Siddhartha Gautama’s Awakening

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“My heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, was released from the fermentation of sensuality, released from the fermentation of becoming, released from the fermentation of ignorance. With release, there was the knowledge, ‘Released.’ I discerned that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.’ “

SARANAI!

May the serenity of the Buddha be yours!

AavaPhoto credit: Thanks to the curator of The Buddha Gallery for this contribution in honor of Bodhi Day. This rare and exquisite 17th or possibly 18th Century Burmese Buddha is in a style of the late Ava/Early Shan.

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