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Buddha Posture: Meditation Exercise

(Thai: ปางปลงกรรมฐาน, pronounced "Pang Plong Kammathan")

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Buddha Posture: Picking Up "Pansukula" (yellow robe given to the deceased)
(Thai: ปางชักผ้าบังสุกุล, pronounced "Pang Chak Pabangsugun")

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Buddha is standing, eyes looking down, the left hand holding a stick, and the right hand hanging beside the body and reaching out as if going to pull a "pansukula".

Related Story: Washing the Shroud to Make a Robe

Source: http://dhammatalk1.blogspot.tw/2010/04/blog-post_8856.html

When the Lord Buddha stayed at the Fire Warship Place of Uruvela-Kassapa, Punnathasi, a female servant of a millionaire in Uruvelasenanikom, passed away. Her corpse was brought to be dropped at a place close to where the Great Buddha stayed. He went to see the shroud. He cleaned the shroud to eliminate the corpse smell and made it as his robe. According to the life-story of the Buddha, Indra came down to help the Buddha from washing, drying and serving the robe. All were complete in one night.

Read More: Pansukula

Source: http://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/pansukula/index.html

One of the Thirteen Dhutaygas.

The Pali word "pansukula" means "forsaken robe", that is to say a neglected dress that has been abandoned on a spot indicating that what is meant is real abandonment, such as the edge of a road, a garbage heap, etc.

"pansu" = "dust (coming from wastes or earth)"; "kula" = "jutting out (such as the bank of a river)". Literally, "pansukula" therefore means "that which comes out of dust". Indeed, such a robe is abandoned in dust, and it covers other wastes, such as the dust itself. According to another method, "pansukula" can be decomposed as follows: "pansu" = "such as the dust"; " = "disgust"; "ula" = "to arrive". In this case, "pansukula" means "(robe) that arrives from a disgusting spot (such as a charnel)"

The bhikkhu who has got used to utilise only pansukula robes is called a "pansu kulika ". When this practice is conveniently carried out, backing up with sila, samadhi et panna, along with the determination of not breaking it, we say that there is "pansu kulikayga " (spirit underlying the exclusive use of abandoned robes).

Should a bhikkhu, who is about to pick up a "pansukula" robe, think that the later could have been forgotten by its owner or fell off owing to lack of attention, he must wait for two or three days prior to picking it up, if it is still there.