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Who are the Sangha ?

Characteristics of Sangha
Buddhist monks are belongs to Sangha - Who had official right from Lord Buddha to preach Dharma.
Buddhist people belong to four categories, Between monks & house hold people.
They are Male & Female followers  of  threefold refuge & Male & Female sectors of Sangha.
Sangha have following characteristics defined by Lord Buddha.
Always work hard to remove desires, illwill & ignorance of the mind.
Always lives with steady minded & meditation minded under eight noble path.
Live in temples, monastery, forest hills, under the huge trees means out of society.
Diving donation to them & worship them by bonding hands help to collect merit 
They have great knowledge about Buddhist teachings.
Sangha practice & finished path for steam entry, once-returning lust world, non-returning lust world & Arhat
They don't belongs to parties or some group of people.
They accomplish with great kindness.
They live with difficult life style & lack of luxury.
They are like bird who have not any home excepts their wings.

Lord Buddha's Advices For Sangha
Don' stick to industries or other house hold works as lay people do
Don' stick to talking & discussing topics which are not related to Dharma 
Don' stick to sleeping 
Don't trying to gather people or  make separate sectors or groups among Sangha
Don't stick for staying with house hold people & government officers
Don't stick for learning & teaching subjects & philosophies of normal world

Ten Facts Help To Become Sangha
Observe all precepts for Sangha
Learn whole Dharma 
Obey to great members who had steady goal to achieve enlighten in this life 
Help & ability to do all works of members who have same virtue as you
Practicing Dharma in daily life
Happy with little collections of monk's cloths, alms food, monasteries & other medicine goods
Four persistence in Buddhism - reduce sin, stop sins, develop merits & start merits
Stay with concentrated mind - remove desires, angry & ignorance of mind
Try to develop wisdom from understanding four noble truths

Individual Buddha (Pacceka Buddha)
After the universal Buddha, the individual Buddha is most honorable person in universe 
Individual Buddha enlighten in time periods ( Kappa) when there have  no universal Buddha
They enlighten about four noble truths from their own effort & with out teacher as universal Buddha
But they can't make understand that wisdom to all gods & humans
They live in silent places with out influence to society as such universal Buddhas

Universal King (Sakvithi Raja)
Universal kings have thirty-two body features as universal Buddhas 
They are king to all over the earth & some times other worlds
Universal kings rule according to five precepts without using weapons & punishments
When universal king rules the world, every one in earth observe & live according to five precepts 
Universal king suddenly get seven gems, then every other kings in earth give their kingdom to universal king
Circle, elephant, horse, gem, queen, chief lay & adviser are those seven gems
Except that universal king have gold color skin, long life time, less ill & popularity

Four Honorable To Build Stupa & Worship
If someone offer flowers to these stupa, then it become merit to rebirth in long times in heavens
Universal Buddha - cause great mentor for gods & humans
Individual Buddha - cause enlighten about four noble truths without teacher
Fully enlighten Sangha of universal Buddha - cause enlighten & stop rebirth cycle
Universal king - cause rule the world according to five precepts & don't use weapons or punishments

True Buddhist Person Have Goal To Get Enlighten State In This Life Time - Lord Buddha

 
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