Category:Appearance of Lord Buddha
Theme Analysis
The appearance of Lord Buddha stands as a profound testament to both the accuracy of Vedic literature and the boundless compassion of the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, compiled by Vyāsadeva five thousand years ago, accurately predicted the appearance of Lord Buddha—specifying his mother's name (Añjanā) and his birthplace (Gayā Pradesh or Kīkaṭeṣu) over two and a half millennia before the actual event. This prophetic accuracy demonstrates the flawless, authoritative nature of śāstra.
Lord Buddha descended during a dark period in human history when the general populace had become highly degraded and atheistic. Driven by a lust for meat, people began opening slaughterhouses under the false pretext of performing Vedic rituals. Because the Vedas contain certain restricted allowances for animal sacrifice, the materialists exploited these injunctions simply to satisfy their tongues. Seeing this rampant, unrestricted animal killing (paśu-ghātam), the Supreme Personality of Godhead became overwhelmed with compassion for the innocent animals and descended as Lord Buddha to stop the carnage.
To rectify the situation, Lord Buddha had to employ a brilliant, transcendental strategy known as sammohāya sura-dviṣām—deluding the atheists and those envious of the faithful. Because the demons were using the Vedas to justify their sinful behavior, Lord Buddha publicly deprecated the Vedic authority and established his own philosophical system centered entirely on ahiṁsā (nonviolence). By rejecting the Vedas, he successfully stopped the animal sacrifices. Furthermore, by cheating the atheists who refused to submit to the Supreme Lord, he tricked them into following his strict moral codes and offering their respect to him, an empowered incarnation of God. Thus, he saved the animals from slaughter and saved the atheists from further sinful degradation.
- Infallible Prophecy: The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam perfectly predicted the appearance, parentage, and location of Lord Buddha 2,500 years before his actual descent.
- The Pretext of Religion: Buddha appeared when materialistic society was misusing the Vedic injunctions as a convenient excuse to turn the world into a massive slaughterhouse.
- Supreme Compassion: The primary motivation for this incarnation was the Lord's deep compassion for the innocent, poor animals being unnecessarily slaughtered.
- Transcendental Trickery: By preaching nonviolence and rejecting the Vedas, Lord Buddha successfully cheated the atheists, tricking them into stopping their sins and worshiping the Supreme Lord in His Buddha form.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Appearance of Lord Buddha - The Mission of Supreme Compassion.
Pages in category "Appearance of Lord Buddha"
The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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- In the Srimad-Bhagavatam there is a great list of incarnations, and Buddha, Lord Buddha, is accepted as one of the incarnations who would appear
- Lord Buddha appeared 2,500 or 2,600 years ago
- Lord Buddha appeared for the purpose of bewildering the demons or atheists
- Lord Buddha came to cheat the atheists
- Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled by Vyasadeva five thousand years ago, and Lord Buddha appeared about two-thousand-six-hundred years ago. Therefore the appearance of Lord Buddha was foretold, in future tense. This is called sastra
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- According to Jiva Gosvami, the Buddha mentioned in this verse (SB 2.7.37) appeared in a different Kali age. In the life of one Manu there are more than seventy-two Kali-yugas, and in one of them the particular type of Buddha mentioned here would appear
- At that time (of Buddha's appearance) it became so excessive, pasu-ghatam, animal slaughter, that the Lord became compassionate, and He appeared to stop this. He originated a new set of . . . set-up of religion: No more animal killing. No more
- At the end of Kali, that means at the last stage, after about 400,000's of years, the incarnation of Kali (Lord Kalki) will appear. That is predicted in the Vedic literatures, as Lord Buddha's appearance was also predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam
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- He (Krsna) is compassionate always; He becomes so compassionate that He comes to stop this nonsense. That is buddha-sarira. Lord Buddha appeared when there was too much animal slaughter
- He (Lord Buddha) also appeared in India. Why? He was also Hindu. He was ksatriya, king. He promulgated this philosophy, ahimsa, when there was unnecessary killing of animals
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- Lord Buddha appeared to stop animal-killing, ahimsa. He did not say anything more. His only mission was, "Let these rascals first of all stop this animal-killing, they'll understand further about spiritual advancement''
- Lord Buddha appeared when people were too much engaged in animal sacrifice without any purpose. Actually it was for eating only. In the name of Vedic sacrifice they were killing animals and eating - a propagation for animal eating
- Lord Buddha is the incarnation of Krsna who appeared when materialism was rampant and materialists were using the pretext of the authority of the Vedas
- Lord Buddha's propaganda was to make the rascals at least to stop animal-killing. Ahimsa paramo dharma. Lord Buddha's appearance is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam and many Vedic literatures
- Lord Buddha, a powerful incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, appeared in the province of Gaya (Bihar) as the son of Anjana, and he preached his own conception of nonviolence and deprecated even the animal sacrifices sanctioned in the Vedas
- Lord Buddha’s intention was to stop atheists from committing the sin of killing animals. Atheists cannot understand God; therefore Lord Buddha appeared and spread the philosophy of nonviolence to keep the atheists from killing animals
- Lord Sri Krsna appeared on this planet out of compassion for fallen souls; Lord Buddha appeared out of compassion for the poor animals who were being killed by the demons; Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared out of compassion for Prahlada Maharaja
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- The demigods' wives thought that if Lord Buddha appeared, all kinds of sacrifices would be stopped, and thus their husbands would not be invited to such ceremonies and thus would not be separated from them
- The plain answer is that since Lord Buddha appeared and began to deprecate the performance of sacrifice in order to stop animal killing on this planet, the process of offering sacrifices has been stopped, and the demigods do not care to come here anymore
- The wives of the demigods, regretting the absence of their husbands, began to pray for the appearance of Lord Buddha, the ninth incarnation of Krsna in the age of Kali
- They (statements of SB) are correct to the point, without any mistake, without any illusion. That is called sastra. There cannot be any mistake. Just like in the SB you'll find that in the beginning of this age Lord Buddha will appear
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- When India was too much addicted for animal slaughtering under the plea of Vedic sacrifice, the Lord Buddha appeared. Why? They misused the Vedic injunctions
- When Lord Buddha appeared, the people in general were atheistic and preferred animal flesh to anything else. On the plea of Vedic sacrifice, every place was practically turned into a slaughterhouse, and animal-killing was indulged in unrestrictedly
- When there was too much animal-killing and people became almost atheist under the shadow of Vedic rituals, Lord Buddha appeared