The people saw this great vihara rise, A stately palace for a foreign prince, And said in wonder: "What strange thing is this?
Further, at the place where the discussion took place, they reared a vihara rather more than sixty cubits high, having in it an image of Buddha in a sitting posture.
At that time the king,(5) who was a sincere believer in the Law of Buddha and wished to build a newvihara for the monks, first convoked a great assembly.
Every day, after it has been brought forth, the keepers of the vihara ascend a high gallery, where they beat great drums, blow conchs, and clash their copper cymbals.
On fast-days the door of that vihara is opened, and the forms of ceremonial reverence are observed according to the rules.
When you go north-west from the vihara of the Deer-wild park for thirteen yojanas, there is a kingdom named Kausambi.
Inside the city the woman Ambapali(3) built a vihara in honour of Buddha, which is now standing as it was at first.
Four of five le east from the vihara there was reared a great pile of firewood, which might be more than thirty cubits square, and the same in height.
Four le to the north-west of the vihara there is a grove called "The Getting of Eyes.
Buddha then removed, and dwelt in a small vihara on the south side (of the other), a different place from that containing the image, and twenty paces distant from it.
Ghochira was the name of a Vaisya elder, or head, who presented a garden and vihara to Buddha.
This disagreement is very embarrassing when people try to conjecture the antiquity of this or that vihara or chaitya.
We eagerly invited the Sadhu to visit our vihara during the evening.
In the chief hall of the vihara was a life-sized statue of Bhavani, the feminine aspect of Shiva.
In front of this there is a footprint of Buddha, where a vihara has been built.
Buddha then removed, and dwelt in a small vihara on the south side of the other, a different place from that containing the image, and twenty paces distant from it.
Therein he writes that "by far the most important ceremony connected with the building and decoration of a vihara (temple), or with its renovation, was the actual netra mangalya or eye ceremonial.
The ceremony had to be performed in the case of any image, whether set up in a vihara or not.
The term Vihara was afterwards usually applied to temples, or to buildings combining temple and monastery in one.
Behind the Vihara he erected a stone pillar, about fifty cubits high, with a lion on the top of it.
Peshawar) there is the flat-bone of Buddha's skull, deposited in a Vihara adorned all over with gold-leaf and the seven sacred substances.
In Fa-hien's time a Vihara existed at the spot where the Buddha had explained the Law (Legge, p.
Vihara to the east was opened, there was seen the original image!
Hence the king felt an increase of devotion, and built a Vihara over the steps, with a standing image of Buddha sixteen cubits high.
To the north-west is a Viharain which is an image of Ka[.
Hiouen Thsang relates that there is a Vihara at Kapila-vastu indicating the spot 'where the Bodhi-sattva descended spiritually into the womb of his mother,' and that there is a representation of this scene drawn in the Vihara.
When I again visited Buddha-Gaya in 1884, I found that the old pyramidal temple had been restored according (as is conjectured) to Hiouen Thsang's description of the Vihara of his day.
It is therefore possible that the outer wall dates from that time, though the inscription merely speaks of the presentation of a vihara situated there.
The number of the monasteries or viharas in the territory of Magadha was so great that the old name of the country was changed for a name derived from them; it was called the land of monasteries: Vihara (Behar).
According to the account of Hiuan-Thsang stupas of Acoka existed at his time in the Deccan among the Andhras and Cholas, the Kanchis and Konkanas; in Nagara he saw a stupa, and in Udyana a vihara of Acoka.
In order to establish this decision, to revise the discipline, and "maintain the good law," seven hundred initiated were selected from the great assembly and met in the Vihara under the presidency of Sarvakami.
And Ajatasattu built a newvihara for Devadatta, and founded a sect whose disciples were pledged to severe rules and self-mortification.
Now I wish to found there a vihara which shall be a place of religious devotion for your brotherhood, and I pray you kindly to accept it.
This vihara was called Jetavana, and the friend of the orphans invited the Lord to come to Savatthi and receive the donation.
The officer is the sick bhikkhu, who having often given offence to his brethren in the vihara was left without assistance in his distress.
Thus the Tathagata refused Devadatta's proposal; and Devadatta left the Buddha and went into the vihara speaking evil of the Lord's path of salvation as too lenient and altogether insufficient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vihara" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
