A list of Mahāyāna ideas you [arguably] won't find in the early Buddhist texts: Buddha-nature (buddhadhātu, tathāgatagarbha, etc), ālāyavijñāna, Avalokiteśvara, Amitābha, Yaśodharā (see Bhaddakaccānā/Bhadrakātyāyani), Pure Lands, Kālacakra initiation, & the Trikāya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature

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BDG Feature: When the Buddha Became Time: The Third Turning of the Wheel

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4yeay6bf

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BDG news: Sacred Relics of the Buddha Travel from India to Bhutan for the Global Peace Prayer Festival

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/p9nuzfx4

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“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

— Robert Jordan

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https://youtu.be/erxeLAg85fg

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The Age:
In regional Victoria, work is under way on a ‘wonder of the Buddhist world’

"Inside a Buddhist temple on Bendigo’s outskirts, artists and volunteers are working on a painstaking art work they believe is the biggest of its kind. Kalachakra Mandala, Buddhist, Buddhism, religion, Bendigo, Great Stupa of Universal Compassion"
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/in-regional-victoria-work-is-under-way-on-a-wonder-of-the-buddhist-world-20230924-p5e73l.html

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Radio Free Asia:
China restricts Tibetans from attending Buddhist Kalachakra sermon

"More than 100,000 devotees have gathered for the teaching by a prominent lama, sources on the ground say."
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/kalachakra-09142023164906.html