Samvega — the urgency the texts say a practitioner feels at the seeing of how things are.
The Shakya prince of Kapilavastu who left his palace, sat beneath the Bodhi tree, and set in motion the wheel of the dharma. The historical Buddha whose words seeded a tradition that now belongs to a fifth of humanity.
Three characteristics belong to all conditioned phenomena: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. To see them clearly in one's own experience is the precondition of liberating insight.
The Birth.
The Enlightenment.
The Self-Arisen.
The Buddha Purnima puja at Swayambhu — the Vesak observance at the self-arisen stupa above Kathmandu, one of the oldest continuously-active Buddhist sites in the world.
The Vesak 2570 broadcast from Nagarmandap Shree Kirti Vihar in Kirtipur — the Newar Theravada community observing the festival at its principal vihar.
