Buddhist Temple at Batam Island

Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya Buddhist Temple is located at Batam Indonesia city centre, Nagoya and is the biggest Laughing Buddha Temple in the Southeast Asia.























































































Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism, he was a prince born in 563 B.C in Nepal.
His father Suddhodana was the King but he left his princely life to find the cause of suffering and pain after seeing a diseased and a beggar begging for his alms and one day on his 29th birthday after learning the common man’s sufferings, he went in search of understanding what is pain and suffering and what was the cause of pain and suffering and was regularly meditating under the fig tree, his teaching became a religion called as Buddhism .

What l like about this religion:
In a Buddhist monastery, you don’t pray for yourself you pray for everybody’s peace and happiness and everybody’s wellbeing, unlike any temple or church where you visit to pray for yourself, in this temple you pray for other’s suffering, you pray for those who are suffering from disease and pain.
This is the speciality about this temple, and I like visiting Buddhist temple only because I don’t get a selfish feeling here, I get a chance to pray for everybody’s well-being and suffering.

One of the buddha's teachings about parents sufferings for their children reminding every child to repay to their parents when they are old.
Bhudha’s teaching towards how one should show gratitude towards their parentsBuddha dwelt at Shravasti, in the Jeta Grove, in the Garden of the Benefactor of Orphans and the Solitary, together with a gathering of great Bhikshus, twelve hundred fifty in all, and with all of the Bodhisattvas, thirty-eight thousand in all.

Buddha's  teachings includes father’s and mother’s have 5 names , he says how to repay them !

Brahma : Because they gave birth , they are the creators

Pubbadevata or first deities : Every deity forgive your fault but the first deity who forgive our fault no matter how big the fault is ... is our parents, they possess same attributes as god , forgive all your mistakes

Pubbacariya :
We are born with Ignorance and our parents are our first teachers

Ahuneyya or worthy of offering, they are worthy of offering from children’s
To attend closely to one’s parents is the highest blessing. To listen to each and every piece of advice given by parents, teachers and elders and to do as advised is the highest blessing. To pay respect to those who are worthy of respect is a noble blessing

Puratthimadisa or Eastern Direction: You always turn toward them for help when you need something

What does this below photograph represents:


















The Buddha said, “Oh monks, one can never repay two persons". I declare. What two? Mother and father are the two. Even if one should carry about his mother on one shoulder and his father on the other and so doing should live a hundred years;

If you got a chance to attend to your parents when they need you and get an opportunity to do your duties to repay what they have done, then you are the only one who is blessed from God, not everybody get this chance, its like you are attending to God ! What else you want in this life ! Who else gets such chance !


















On the way to Indonesia !




















































































At batam , Golden Prawn Restaurant! This place is somewhat like Kerala !







































































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