🎯Terminology on Buddhism.
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✅Sarvastivada
It is one of the earliest Buddhist schools to believe in the existence of all dharmas in the past, present and future.
•It was spread across northwestern India and Central Asia.
•A later form of Sarvastivada is Vaibhasika, which exposes Abhidhamma's philosophy.
•Classical texts of Vaibhasika school include Abhidharma-kosa (Vasubandhu) and Milinda panho (discussion between Nagasena and Meander I).
• There is an offshoot of Sarvastivada called Sautrantika, Pitaka, which is based on ‘Sukta pitaka’,
• It propped up against realism and pluralism of Vaibhasikas and principal teachers include Kumaralat, Yasomitra and Harivarman.
✅Kshitigarbha
Kshtigarbha is one of the eight great Bodhisattvas.
•Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who postpone their own salvation in order to help all sentient beings.
•Kshtigarbha is learned to save the souls of all beings, between Buddha’s death and the age of the future Buddha known as Maitreya.
•Wearing simple monk’s clothes, Kshitigarbha holds a jewel called Cintamani in one hand to light up darkness and fulfill wishes, and has a staff in another hand to open the gates of hell.
✅Gassho
It is a gesture used in some schools of Buddhism, as well as in Hinduism.
• Buddhists frequently use their palms to make this motion.
• It is a Japanese word for “palms together” to greet or have a calm state of mind.
• Holding the hands in front of the face signifies non-duality, showing that the giver and receiver are not two.
• The term is rooted in India, conveying a sense of profound respect and honour.
✅Nekkhamma
Generally it means “renunciation” and specifically it means “the renunciation of pleasure”.
•It is a Pali term that means freedom from lust, craving, and desires, giving up the world, and leading a holy life.
•After generosity and moral discipline, it is third on the ten Theravada paramitas, or forces for transformation.
•Lifestyle commitment is important for lay practitioners, just like it is for monks and nuns, to cultivate this virtue.
✅Anapanasati
It is one of many suttas that explain this fundamental aspect of Buddhist meditation.
•Anapanasati involves mindfulness of breathing or paying attention to the breath.
•It is a way of cultivating the seven factors of awakening and acts as an alternative to dhyana.
•Counting to breath for this technique is attributed to Buddhaghisha’s commentary in Visuddhimagga and Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosa Karika.
✅Vibhajjavada
Its teachings form the basis of modern Theravada Buddhism.
It is an offshoot of the Sthaviravada school and played a major role in compiling the Pali Canon.
• It rejects the doctrine of Sarvastivada school, especially the tenet of Pudgalavada.
• Missionary activities were undertaken by them in Kashmir, Gandhara, Bactria and South India under King Ashoka.
• Their doctrines are written at length in Kathavathu.
✅Ratnasambhava
They concentrate on fostering equality and calmness, which is paramount in today's world.
•Its mandalas and mantras promote equality, and in Vajrayana Buddhist philosophy, they try to eradicate greed and arrogance.
•It is one of the five Dhyani Buddhas of Mahayana and Vajrayana.
•The mandala is yellow and in the southern direction. It shows Buddha’s right hand extended downward and his left hand holding a precious jewel.
•Ratnasambhava embodies Dharma, which helps change pride, miserliness, and avarice into equanimity.
✅Yogacara
It is the only idealistic school in Buddhism and Indian philosophy in the strictest sense.
•It is also known as Vijnanavada.
•The focus is not only on idealism but also absolutism.
•Workings of the mind and the nature of consciousness are promoted.
•Basically a metaphysical system, it comes up against the extreme nihilism of Madhyamika.
✅Vairocana
A cosmic Buddha playing the role of Dharmakaya of Gautam Buddha.
•Vairocana is the guardian of the centre famous for dharma chakra mudra or "Turning of the Wheel of Law".
You will better remember when you know what and why.
✅Sarvastivada
It is one of the earliest Buddhist schools to believe in the existence of all dharmas in the past, present and future.
•It was spread across northwestern India and Central Asia.
•A later form of Sarvastivada is Vaibhasika, which exposes Abhidhamma's philosophy.
•Classical texts of Vaibhasika school include Abhidharma-kosa (Vasubandhu) and Milinda panho (discussion between Nagasena and Meander I).
• There is an offshoot of Sarvastivada called Sautrantika, Pitaka, which is based on ‘Sukta pitaka’,
• It propped up against realism and pluralism of Vaibhasikas and principal teachers include Kumaralat, Yasomitra and Harivarman.
✅Kshitigarbha
Kshtigarbha is one of the eight great Bodhisattvas.
•Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who postpone their own salvation in order to help all sentient beings.
•Kshtigarbha is learned to save the souls of all beings, between Buddha’s death and the age of the future Buddha known as Maitreya.
•Wearing simple monk’s clothes, Kshitigarbha holds a jewel called Cintamani in one hand to light up darkness and fulfill wishes, and has a staff in another hand to open the gates of hell.
✅Gassho
It is a gesture used in some schools of Buddhism, as well as in Hinduism.
• Buddhists frequently use their palms to make this motion.
• It is a Japanese word for “palms together” to greet or have a calm state of mind.
• Holding the hands in front of the face signifies non-duality, showing that the giver and receiver are not two.
• The term is rooted in India, conveying a sense of profound respect and honour.
✅Nekkhamma
Generally it means “renunciation” and specifically it means “the renunciation of pleasure”.
•It is a Pali term that means freedom from lust, craving, and desires, giving up the world, and leading a holy life.
•After generosity and moral discipline, it is third on the ten Theravada paramitas, or forces for transformation.
•Lifestyle commitment is important for lay practitioners, just like it is for monks and nuns, to cultivate this virtue.
✅Anapanasati
It is one of many suttas that explain this fundamental aspect of Buddhist meditation.
•Anapanasati involves mindfulness of breathing or paying attention to the breath.
•It is a way of cultivating the seven factors of awakening and acts as an alternative to dhyana.
•Counting to breath for this technique is attributed to Buddhaghisha’s commentary in Visuddhimagga and Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakosa Karika.
✅Vibhajjavada
Its teachings form the basis of modern Theravada Buddhism.
It is an offshoot of the Sthaviravada school and played a major role in compiling the Pali Canon.
• It rejects the doctrine of Sarvastivada school, especially the tenet of Pudgalavada.
• Missionary activities were undertaken by them in Kashmir, Gandhara, Bactria and South India under King Ashoka.
• Their doctrines are written at length in Kathavathu.
✅Ratnasambhava
They concentrate on fostering equality and calmness, which is paramount in today's world.
•Its mandalas and mantras promote equality, and in Vajrayana Buddhist philosophy, they try to eradicate greed and arrogance.
•It is one of the five Dhyani Buddhas of Mahayana and Vajrayana.
•The mandala is yellow and in the southern direction. It shows Buddha’s right hand extended downward and his left hand holding a precious jewel.
•Ratnasambhava embodies Dharma, which helps change pride, miserliness, and avarice into equanimity.
✅Yogacara
It is the only idealistic school in Buddhism and Indian philosophy in the strictest sense.
•It is also known as Vijnanavada.
•The focus is not only on idealism but also absolutism.
•Workings of the mind and the nature of consciousness are promoted.
•Basically a metaphysical system, it comes up against the extreme nihilism of Madhyamika.
✅Vairocana
A cosmic Buddha playing the role of Dharmakaya of Gautam Buddha.
•Vairocana is the guardian of the centre famous for dharma chakra mudra or "Turning of the Wheel of Law".
•He is also seen as the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of Sunyata.
•Vairocana is a primordial Buddha in the conception of the Five Tathagatas of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
⚠️You might think these are all new terminology. Surprisingly they are all from the PYQs.
🌟Dear candidates, make sure to thoroughly analyze previous year's questions. Additionally, prioritize maintaining both your health and spirit at a high level.
•Vairocana is a primordial Buddha in the conception of the Five Tathagatas of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
⚠️You might think these are all new terminology. Surprisingly they are all from the PYQs.
🌟Dear candidates, make sure to thoroughly analyze previous year's questions. Additionally, prioritize maintaining both your health and spirit at a high level.
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Rescue Operations by India
1. Operation ‘Indravati’ (March, 2024): to evacuate Indians from Haiti to Dominican Republic.
2. Operation Ajay (2023): India has formally launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return from Israel of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend triggered fresh tensions in the region.
3. Operation Kaveri (2023)
The Indian government initiated ‘Operation Kaveri’ to rescue over 3,000 Indian people stranded in Sudan, an African country tense due to fighting between the army and a paramilitary force
4. Operation Dost (2023): Operation Dost is an ongoing search and rescue operation launched by the Indian government to assist Syria and Turkey following a violent earthquake that devastated both countries on February 6, 2023.
5. Operation Ganga (2022): to bring its people, stranded in Ukraine, back to their homeland.
6. Operation Devi Shakti (2021): from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city, to the Taliban.
7. Operation Vande Bharat (2020-21):
Launched in 2020 when the India brought back Indians stranded in different countries in the Covid-19 pandemic-hit world.
8. Operation Samudra Setu (2020-21): to bring back Indian stranded overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Operation Samudra Setu was a naval operation that brought back over 3,000 Indian citizens.
9. Operation Nistar (2018): It is an Indian Naval operation to evacuate 38 Indian nationals from Yemen’s cyclone-ravaged Socotra island.
10. Operation Insaniyat (2017): Due to the large influx of Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh, India’s Ministry of External Affairs launched Operation Insaniyat to assist Bangladesh in overcoming the humanitarian crisis.
11. Operation Sankat Mochan (2016):
During the South Sudanese Civil War.
12. Operation Raahat (2015): from Yemen
13. Operation Maitri (2015): It was launched in 2015 as a joint relief and rescue operation by the Indian government and the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.
14. Operation Safe Homecoming (2011): Librya. In 2011, when a civil war broke out in Libya, the Indian government launched Operation Safe Homecoming and rescued 15,400 Indians.
15. Operation Sukoon (2006):
It was launched in 2006 as Israel and Lebanon broke into a military conflict.
The operation is now famously known as ‘Beirut Sealift’.
16. Kuwait Airlift (1990): After Vande Bharat, Kuwait's airlift remains the second-largest rescue operation by the Indian government. It was carried out after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Given the scale of evacuation, Air India found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for airlifting the largest number of people in a civilian plane.
17. Operation Poomalai (1987):
Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4, was a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force on 4 June 1987 to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka to support the Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Rescue Operations by India
1. Operation ‘Indravati’ (March, 2024): to evacuate Indians from Haiti to Dominican Republic.
2. Operation Ajay (2023): India has formally launched Operation Ajay to facilitate the return from Israel of those Indians who wish to come back home as a series of brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants over the weekend triggered fresh tensions in the region.
3. Operation Kaveri (2023)
The Indian government initiated ‘Operation Kaveri’ to rescue over 3,000 Indian people stranded in Sudan, an African country tense due to fighting between the army and a paramilitary force
4. Operation Dost (2023): Operation Dost is an ongoing search and rescue operation launched by the Indian government to assist Syria and Turkey following a violent earthquake that devastated both countries on February 6, 2023.
5. Operation Ganga (2022): to bring its people, stranded in Ukraine, back to their homeland.
6. Operation Devi Shakti (2021): from Afghanistan after the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul, the capital city, to the Taliban.
7. Operation Vande Bharat (2020-21):
Launched in 2020 when the India brought back Indians stranded in different countries in the Covid-19 pandemic-hit world.
8. Operation Samudra Setu (2020-21): to bring back Indian stranded overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic, Operation Samudra Setu was a naval operation that brought back over 3,000 Indian citizens.
9. Operation Nistar (2018): It is an Indian Naval operation to evacuate 38 Indian nationals from Yemen’s cyclone-ravaged Socotra island.
10. Operation Insaniyat (2017): Due to the large influx of Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh, India’s Ministry of External Affairs launched Operation Insaniyat to assist Bangladesh in overcoming the humanitarian crisis.
11. Operation Sankat Mochan (2016):
During the South Sudanese Civil War.
12. Operation Raahat (2015): from Yemen
13. Operation Maitri (2015): It was launched in 2015 as a joint relief and rescue operation by the Indian government and the Indian Armed Forces in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.
14. Operation Safe Homecoming (2011): Librya. In 2011, when a civil war broke out in Libya, the Indian government launched Operation Safe Homecoming and rescued 15,400 Indians.
15. Operation Sukoon (2006):
It was launched in 2006 as Israel and Lebanon broke into a military conflict.
The operation is now famously known as ‘Beirut Sealift’.
16. Kuwait Airlift (1990): After Vande Bharat, Kuwait's airlift remains the second-largest rescue operation by the Indian government. It was carried out after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Given the scale of evacuation, Air India found a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for airlifting the largest number of people in a civilian plane.
17. Operation Poomalai (1987):
Operation Poomalai, also known as Eagle Mission 4, was a mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force on 4 June 1987 to airdrop supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka to support the Tamil Tigers during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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In this decade long journey of preparation,teaching,guiding and mentoring people.I have seen most of the aspirants were sincere in their preparation.They have given their best.
Yeah,Hardwork beats talent in this examination till mains.
However there are certain things needs to be highlighted.
Hardly,difference of very few marks,decides service allocation or altogether wether one will get rank and is in the final list itself.
This difference could be because of better performance by the other or the subjectivity involved in evaluation process.
There would hardly be any difference between who made it and who did not.
We are not questioning the subjectivity involved (unless we can suggest a better mechanism to find talent). But at the same time we shall not forget the subjectivity involved in it as well.
If someone is in the list they are blessed early for their hardwork and will serve as bureaucrats.
Those who did not clear, will be blessed with little delay and they will serve this nation through much better positions
possible.
🌟It is just a matter of time.Ask those who were in your position few years ago.They are doing great.You too will.
I wish everyone all the very best for the final results🤝
I think it’s time to change our way of looking at results. They are just results of an examination.
Let’s try to have the same view towards all the people in the process. And try to learn from both of their experiences.
The bond that we have built wasn’t mechanical and you know it well it would remain the same.Hope same works with most others.
Regardless of your result my friend,I’ll remain by your side.❤️❤️
Dear aspirants and friends,
In this decade long journey of preparation,teaching,guiding and mentoring people.I have seen most of the aspirants were sincere in their preparation.They have given their best.
Yeah,Hardwork beats talent in this examination till mains.
However there are certain things needs to be highlighted.
Hardly,difference of very few marks,decides service allocation or altogether wether one will get rank and is in the final list itself.
This difference could be because of better performance by the other or the subjectivity involved in evaluation process.
There would hardly be any difference between who made it and who did not.
We are not questioning the subjectivity involved (unless we can suggest a better mechanism to find talent). But at the same time we shall not forget the subjectivity involved in it as well.
If someone is in the list they are blessed early for their hardwork and will serve as bureaucrats.
Those who did not clear, will be blessed with little delay and they will serve this nation through much better positions
possible.
🌟It is just a matter of time.Ask those who were in your position few years ago.They are doing great.You too will.
I wish everyone all the very best for the final results
I think it’s time to change our way of looking at results. They are just results of an examination.
Let’s try to have the same view towards all the people in the process. And try to learn from both of their experiences.
The bond that we have built wasn’t mechanical and you know it well it would remain the same.Hope same works with most others.
Regardless of your result my friend,I’ll remain by your side.❤️❤️
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We have proved together that even though one is not well prepared for optional before prelims, yet by managing your time, prioritising key syllabus and enough regular practice can take you to LBSNAA.
For a good teacher everyone is equal and is given equal attention to each one of them.
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