Encounter between Buddha and Māra; A Seleucid confrontation in the Theravāda tradition

The encounter between the Buddha and the mara, which in the Buddhist religion is known as the greatest battle of the Buddha on the way to enlightenment, has always been considered as an inspiring model and a path-breaker for the Buddhist seeker on the path of mysticism. In addition, this encounter can be traced in a higher realm, a realm in which man is the only actor in the world of possibilities, and on the way to spiritual transcendence, he must give in to this encounter.Buddha as a perfect human and Mara as the pole of evil are the only actors and roleplayers of this fundamental confrontation that man faces every moment inside himself and of course in the outside world. By rereading this confrontation, explaining its main battlefield and also recognizing the mara as an obstacle on the path of the Buddhist man on the way to happiness, this article tries to analyze the existential dimensions of the pole of good and evil within man in the Buddhist tradition, and since the best and most authentic The reading is from the Buddhist religion of the Theravada or Hinayana tradition, emphasizing the fundamental texts and the viewpoint of this tradition, it has gone to decipher this encounter.