India and Vietnam Pilgrimage 2012
09/11/2012 to 04/12/2012
Four Places of
Pilgrimage(http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.16.1-6.vaji.html)
There are four places, Ananda, that a pious person should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence. What are the four?
'Here the Tathagata was born!'
'Here the Tathagata became fully enlightened in unsurpassed, supreme Enlightenment!'
'Here the Tathagata set rolling the unexcelled Wheel of the Dhamma!'
'Here the Tathagata passed away into the state of Nibbana in which no element of clinging remains!'
These, Ananda, are the four places that a pious person should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence. And truly there will come to these places, Ananda, pious bhikkhus and bhikkhunis, laymen and laywomen, reflecting: 'Here the Tathagata was born! Here the Tathagata became fully enlightened in unsurpassed, supreme Enlightenment! Here the Tathagata set rolling the unexcelled Wheel of the Dhamma! Here the Tathagata passed away into the state of Nibbana in which no element of clinging remains!' And whoever, Ananda, should die on such a pilgrimage with his heart established in faith, at the breaking up of the body, after death, will be reborn in a realm of heavenly happiness.
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