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| | Buddha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The idea of an everlasting Buddha is a Mahayana notion popularly associated with the Mahayana Buddhist scripture, the Lotus Sutra. | | | According to scriptures available, Gautama Buddha was the 28th Buddha. | | | Gautama the Buddha foretold the name of 29th Buddha as "Maitreya". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha
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| | Songs and Meditations of the Tibetan Dhyani Buddhas |
| | Vajrasattva is the Buddha of diamond-wisdom, and is the chief Buddha of the five Dhyani Buddhas. | | | The Bodhisattvas (Emanations or Spiritual Sons) of the Dhyani Buddhas | | | He is the Buddha of mirror-like wisdom and is known as the Immovable One. |
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http://www.buddhanature.com
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| | Tathagatagarbha doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tathagata is one of the ten epithets for a Buddha. | | | The Tathagatagarbha is indicated by the relevant sutras to be the ultimate, pure, ungraspable, irreducible, invulnerable, true and deathless Quintessence of the Buddha's liberating Reality, the very core of his highest being (Dharmakaya). | | | The Tathagatagarbha doctrine arose with the Mahayanists and later became linked with those who were associated to some degree or another with Yogacara studies, aiming clearly to account for the possibility of the attainment of Buddhahood by ignorant sentient beings (the "Tathagatagarbha" is the indwelling "bodhi" - Awakening - in the very heart of Samsara). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagatagarbha_doctrine
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| | Glossary |
| | It is the realm of Vairocana Buddha, the transcendental aspect of Buddha Shakyamuni and of all Buddhas. | | | Represents the Dharma Body of Buddha Shakyamuni and all Buddhas. | | | The concept of decline, dissension and schism within the Dharma after the passing of the Buddha is a general teaching of Buddhism and a corollary to the Truth of Impermanence. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/pureland/mindseal06.htm
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| | BUDDHA NATURE I |
| | The founder of Buddhism in this world is Buddha Shakyamuni. | | | The founder of Buddhism was Buddha Shakyamuni who lived and taught in India some two and a half thousand years ago. | | | In the Hinayana teachings Buddha explains how to attain liberation from suffering for oneself alone, and in the Mahayana teachings he explains how to attain full enlightenment, or Buddhahood, for the sake of others. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cheeky.monkey/buddha/Personal9.html
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| | The Buddha We Are |
| | It does not mean that beings possess a Buddha nature, or that beings are containers in which a seed form of Buddha can be found, as if there were two realities, beings and Buddha. | | | Buddha nature is just another name for human nature–true human nature." This means that being Buddha is intrinsic or essential to being human. | | | Suzuki Roshi said "...to be a human being is to be a Buddha. |
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http://www.intrex.net/chzg/Pat2.htm
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| | THE BASIC TEACHING OF BUDDHA |
| | The Buddha said, "The extinction of desire is Nirvana." This is the ultimate goal in Buddhism. | | | The Buddha realized that that he was not the first to become a Buddha. | | | The Buddha taught his disciples to be tolerant of other religions. |
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http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm
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| | ORIENTALIA - Attaining the Buddha-Nature Here and Now |
| | Comply with (your Buddha's) empowerment and contemplate on it. | | | Sanskrit "buddha" and "bodhi" are derivatives of the same word (budh). | | | Secondly, one attains unity with Mahavairocana Buddha through the three mystic practices of empowerment and responding. |
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http://www.orientalia.org/article603.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddha Nature |
| | It is the lack of inherent nature of the Buddha that is Buddha nature. | | | Buddha Nature in the Geluk tradition is, as Wooden Robot pointed out, is the mere emptiness of the mind. | | | Buddha nature in its negative sense is a lack (of inherent nature), but if we imagine the implications of this in a positive sense, this implies to me a positive state of infinite potentiality. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=9779
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Buddha Nature - Simply |
| | Buddha nature is presumably a different experience for everyone but as I see it self and other are all one buddha, keep going and you become that buddha of self and other infact you always were that buddha. | | | Furthermore, in the chapter of expounding the nature of Buddha nature, the author identified Buddha nature with the 'Dharmakaya', which is characterized with four virtues ('guna'). | | | Once you become aware of your own buddha nature, some experience a phase of seeing buddha reflected in others which is an intermediate state related to mirror mind and it seems to them that the whole universe has buddha nature.... |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t5840.html
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| | About Dharma - What is Compassion |
| | Therefore the way to become a Buddha is to awaken our compassionate Buddha nature and complete the training in universal compassion. | | | Our compassion is our Buddha seed or Buddha nature, our potential to become a Buddha. | | | It is the root of Buddha because all Buddhas are born from compassion. |
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http://aboutdharma.org/what-is-compassion.php
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| | Publications |
| | The Buddha Nature that all sentient beings can awake to is referred to Awakening Buddha Nature, the first part of Buddha Nature. | | | What Buddha sees is the original nature of the cup, which is clay, not the physical form or function of the cup. | | | Since Buddhas focus is on the original nature, it does not matter if the clay is made into cups, bowels, or plates. |
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http://taosculture.org/English/Publications/buddha2.htm
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| | The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature According to Gelug-Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika |
| | The evolving family-traits are the seeds that, newly gained by listening to, contemplating, or meditating on Buddha's teachings, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain arya pathway minds ('phags-lam) in the category of shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, or bodhisattvas. | | | The purified states are those of an arhat (liberated being) - either a shravaka arhat or pratyekabuddha arhat - or that of an enlightened being (bodhisattva arhat, Buddha). | | | According to Chittamatra, the naturally abiding family-traits are the seeds (sa-bon) that, without beginning, are imputable on the basis of the stained mind of each limited being (sentient being) and which serve as factors allowing that being to attain one of three purified states (byang-chub, Skt. |
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http://berzinarchives.com/sutra/sutra_level_4/buddha_nature_according.html
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| | Buddhist philosophy, Indian : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online |
| | Discussions about the nature of the Buddha were as important to some Buddhist philosophers as discussions about the nature of God were to the theologians of theistic traditions (see Buddha). | | | Given the diversity of things said about the Buddha in the texts that Buddhists regarded as authoritative, it is no wonder that among the points about which there was considerable controversy was the nature of the Buddha himself. | | | The earliest extant record of controversies concerning the nature of the Buddha is a work known as Kathāvatthu (Points of Controversy), supposed to have been written around 246 bc by an elder monk known as Tissa Moggalīputta. |
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http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/F001SECT3
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| | The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Nature: First Day of a Discourse on Uttaratantra - 1 Background Discussion |
| | Then, concerning the "basic foundation of the mind," Buddha explained the essential nature of the reality of the mind as voidness: it is devoid of all impossible ways of existing. | | | He speaks of Buddha-nature as possessing a Buddha's enlightening qualities as potential abilities or seeds and as having an actual nature that is unaffected by anything. | | | Buddha commented on these two ways of understanding "the self-nature of mind is clear light" in an uncommon manner at the occasion of the last round of Dharma transmission. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rings/prasangika/Buddha-naure.htm
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| | The Buddha Nature Is |
| | The role of the Buddha is not that of a supernatural being to which others are subservient. | | | It indicates that the Buddha returns to the realm of the lower nine worlds to lead people to enlightenment, and that while existing in the lower nine worlds, ordinary people have the potential to attain Buddhahood. | | | In the Daishonin's thirteenth century japan, dominated by Buddhist sects that followed provisional sutras, Buddhas were thought to be transcendent savior figures. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/buddhismtoday/bc037.htm
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| | Tathagatagarbha - Buddha Nature |
| | Buddha Nature and Buddhist practice are essentially the same thing. Buddha Nature is not a theory, it is an omnipresent reality, and Buddhist practice simply links us into that reality. | | | So I’m going to speak about this Buddha Nature which, in Buddhist tradition, is usually called Tathagatagarbha. Tathagata is a common word for Buddha; Garbha means either womb, or the embryo which grows in the womb. | | | it also has an optimistic concept of human nature, which is based on the idea of a universal, active Buddha Nature. |
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http://www.kamalashila.co.uk/talks/Tathatagarbha.htm
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| | Khenpo Tsultrim on Buddha Nature |
| | Continuing with the ten aspects of Buddha nature, Khenpo Tsultrim spoke of manifestation, which has three phases, or ways in which beings relate to their Buddha Nature: Ordinary beings relate mistakenly; Bodhisattvas relate unmistakenly; and Buddhas relate in a manner beyond conception. | | | Khenpo Rinpoche further transmitted a glimpse of primordial perfection when speaking of the ten aspects of Buddha Nature's existence, among which is fruition, encompassing the transcendent perfection of the qualities of purity, bliss, self, and permanence. | | | But in the Third Turning the Buddha stated that the Buddha Nature is the essence of all beings; however, because we |
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http://www.khandro.net/lama_Tsultrim_BudNature.htm
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| | BUDDHA NATURE By Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche |
| | When we begin to meditate on the nature of mind, it is preferable to make short sessions of meditation, several times per day. | | | But all the way along this spiritual journey, although there is an appearance of transformation, the nature of the mind has never changed: it was not corrupted on entry onto the path, and it was not improved at the time of realization. | | | The state of Buddha contains in itself five "bodies" or aspects of Buddhahood: the Manifested Body, the Body of Perfect Enjoyment, the Absolute Body, the Essential Body and the Immutable Diamond Body. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/buddha_nature__by_dilgo_khyentse.htm
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| | Naropa Online - Buddha Nature: The Nature of Enlightenment in the Uttaratantra and Mahamudra |
| | These teachings are generally described using the name "Buddha Nature," and form the foundation of one of the most profound Buddhist traditions of practice and accomplishment, called the "Great Seal" or "Mahamudra". | | | Thrangu Rinpoche, The Uttaratantra: A Treatise on Buddha Nature (Namo Buddha Publications) Available through Namo Buddha Publications. | | | In this course we examine the teachings of Buddha Nature and the sutra tradition of mahamudra through the close study of a landmark treatise by Gö Lotsawa (1392-1481 A.D.). |
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http://www.naropa.edu/distance/courses/REL527e.htm
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| | Snow Lion Publications |
| | All sentient beings, without exception have buddha nature, the inherent purity and perfection of the mind, untouched by changing mental states. | | | The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra, one of the "Five Treatises" said to have been dictated to Asanga by the Bodhisattva Maitreya, presents the Buddha's definitive teachings on how we should understand this ground of enlightenment and clarifies the nature and qualities of buddhahood. | | | BUDDHA NATURE: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with Commentary |
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http://www.snowlionpub.com/search.php?in_item_id=4953
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| | Articles - Buddha Nature |
| | It says in the sutras that buddha nature pervades all beings. | | | But this does not mean that there is some thing which is buddha nature. | | | Rather, when all the confusion of samsara is cleared away, what remains is buddha nature. |
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http://www.unfetteredmind.org/articles/nature.php
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| | Do the Taliban Have Buddha Nature |
| | The Buddha had said that the cause of suffering is the attachment to things that are impermanent. | | | Those stone buddhas are fulfilling their vows by drawing fire away from other sentinent beings. | | | They are teaching the world the truth about what the Buddha said many centuries ago. |
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http://are.berkeley.edu/~atanu/Writing/taliban_nature.html
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| | Aligning with your Buddha Nature |
| | From my understanding, "Buddha" means "awake", and each one alive possess "Buddha nature". | | | He, as well as many others speak and live peace and unity, and are assisting all of humanity in recognizing their own Buddha Nature. | | | There is a peaceful, calm energy that comes to "mind" when one encounters a statue of Buddha, or sees a bright orange or maroon robe adorning a monk. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~cbearse/AligningwithyourBuddhaNature.htm
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| | Dictionary Information: Definition Dharmakaya - Description Meaning Thesaurus |
| | It is the spiritual body of the buddhas, their true nature, which all buddhas have in common. | | | Various names are applied to the Dharmakaya depending on whether it is being taken as the true nature of being (dharmata, dharmadhatu, tathata, bhutatathata, shunyata, alaya-vijnana) or as the true nature of the buddhas (buddhata, buddha-nature, tathagatagarbha). | | | Dharmakaya (body of the great order); the true nature of the Buddha, which is identical with reality, the essential laws of the universe. |
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http://selfknowledge.com/109716.htm
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| | Buddha Nature CD - New Earth Records |
| | Deuter's correct perception that Buddha Nature is inseparable from bliss/void and compassion illustrated by the image of Avlokiteshvara (the Buddha of compassion who the Dalai Lama is said to be a reincarnation of) on the cover creates five meditative tracks that deal with different aspects of the Path impressionistically. | | | He has become a leading light in the music of healing and meditation, and Buddha Nature is his most focused yet most stridently abstract work in this genre to date. | | | Buddha Nature is not as Asian as the name might imply, but rather an album of sublime music... |
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http://www.newearthrecords.com/ProductCart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=21
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| | Buddha-nature |
| | First, you should realize that the term "Buddha-nature" refers to the very mind of the Buddha. | | | Then you can set aside the belief that a donkey's jowl is the Buddha-nature, thereby coming to learn, for the first time, where to begin your search for the authentic Buddha-nature which is within yourself. | | | By means of the six paramitas you will surpass the confines of the mortal body, in addition to all levels of attainments, including those of the Hearers and the Solitary Buddhas. |
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http://www.darkzen.com/zenmar/buddha-n.html
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| | The Buddha Nature |
| | Although the Theravadins/ Hinayanists have no the category of the "Buddha's Nature", all true Mahayanists (with exception of some Yogacarins) insists that all the sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature It is Tathagatagarbha, the Embryo of the Buddhahood in all beings. | | | All the beings are already endowed with the wisdom of the Buddha! |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/Buddha_Nature.htm
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