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Shri Pada or Adams Peak is the name of the sacred mountain in Sri Lanka that Buddhists climb in order to follow Gautama's legendary path.
Many Buddhists around Asia repeat Amitabha, which is a certain Buddha's name over and over as a way to assist in the attainment of enlightenment.
Bodhidarma was the name of the Indian missionary who founded Zen Buddhism, it is rumored that he spent 9 years straight staring at a wall in a cave.
Mara, an evil tempter attacked the Buddha when he was meditating under the Bodhi Tree, with conventional weapons and the weather, his attempts to bribe the Buddha also failed.
One of the largest collections of Buddhist art can be found in Mogao caves near Dun Huang in Central- West China.
Buddha has some 35 odd names, Vajragarbhapramardin, Ratnarchis, Nageshvararaja, Viresena, Viranandin, Ratnagni, Ratnachandraprabha, Amoghadarshin, Ratnachandra, Vimala, Shuradatta being some of them.
For the scene in the forest with the ascetics where Siddartha becomes emaciated from lack of food, Keanu Reeves (who played the part of Buddha in the movie Little Buddha) went on a crash diet of oranges and water.
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