The first human depictions of the Buddha were Greek from Gandhara, Central Asia. |
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The "self-confidence" (vesārajja) of a Buddha is fourfold.
He is confident:
- to have attained to a perfect enlightenment of which it cannot be said that it omits anything essential to it;
- to have destroyed all defiling taints (āsava), leaving none that can be said to be undestroyed by him;
- that what were declared by him as obstacles to liberation are undeniably such;
- that his Teaching (Dharma) fulfils its purpose of actually leading to final liberation (nirvana) from all suffering.
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