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| | Buddhahood |
 | | Buddhahood: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary on Attainment of Buddhahood | | | That is, the world of Buddhahood possesses the nine worlds, i.e., the world of hell, the world of hungry spirits, the world of animals, the world of asuras, the world of human beings, the world of heavenly beings, the world of voice-hearers, the world of cause-awakened ones, and the world of bodhisattvas. | | | Buddhahood: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary on Attainment of Buddhahood by women |
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| | Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is finally revealed (in the last of the Buddha's Mahayana sutras, the Nirvana Sutra) not as the circumscribed "non-self", the clinging ego (which is indeed anatta/anatman), but as the ever-enduring, egoless Great Self or Dharmakaya of the Buddha. | | | In the Nirvana Sutra, it is called by the Buddha the "True Self" (to distinguish it from the "false" worldly self of the five skandhas). | | | The aim of Nikaya Buddhism is to achieve liberation from rebirth and thus Nirvana. |
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| | Amitabha Pureland Web (Australia) - Vows 31 to 40 |
| | When I obtain the Buddhahood, the heavenly beings of boundless and inconceivable Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters, having heard my name, should not worship me with prostrate reverence, and joyfully and faithfully perform their Bodhisattva-duty, and be honoured by gods and men, then may I not attain the enlightenment. | | | When I attain the Buddhahood, if the heavenly beings of that country of mine should not be enjoying happiness as great as that that of the holy bhikkhus,(Asravakchava the finality of the stream of passions) then may I not attain the enlightenment. | | | When I attain the Buddhahood, if the Bodhisattvas of that country of mine wish to see the boundless, holy, pure Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters, they will at once behold them from the jewel-trees as though one's face were being reflected in a highly burnished, brilliant mirror, otherwise may I not attain the enlightenment. |
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| | The True Nature of Buddhahood |
| | The higher states, especially bodhisattva and Buddhahood, are filled with compassion and are in perfect harmony with the universe. | | | In the pre-Lotus Sutra teachings, the attainment of Buddhahood was described as an otherworldly state, where all attachments and desires are extinguished. | | | He perceived that his disciples were finally ready, and so he revealed the ultimate truth that Buddhahood is eternally inherent in all life. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/the_lotus_sutra_study_center/true_nature_of_buddhahood.htm
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| | Toda : You and I are ordinary people, yet at the same time, each of us is theoretically a Buddha, To attain Buddhahood is to know that one is a Buddha. | | | He further claimed that his role as a buddha is to open, show, awaken and guide people into buddhahood, and the means of achieving that is through the “Expedient Means”. | | | Such hesitation reveal Shakyamuni’s buddhood.- Buddha are the one who is thinking and agonizing over how to develop other’s ability to achieve happiness as well as over how to fulfill his or her own mission. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wpb/sdmtg2004may1.doc
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| | Yet, some of the disciples had a strong tendency to slander the teachings of Buddhism and were thus unable to attain Buddhahood because they discarded their faith or committed acts against the teachings of Buddhism. | | | To explain, some people were unable to attain Buddhahood in Kuon ganjo when they received the fundamental sowing of the seed from the Buddha of the True Cause (this original sowing is known as "sowing the seed by making the people hear the Law"{Monpo geshu}). | | | According to the interpretation of Twenty-sixth High Priest Nichikan Shonin, the sowing of the seed (geshu) of Buddhahood in the lives of the people in the distant past of Sanzen-jindengo as taught in the theoretical teaching was in fact the second sowing of the seed in these people's lives. |
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http://www.nst.org/articles/sst3p.txt
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| | The Path From Human to Buddhahood |
| | Likewise, Buddhahood has to be achieved by certain methods and thus, there is neither a naturally born Maitreya Buddha nor a naturally existing Sakyamuni Buddha. | | | Although this may be expedient in Buddhism, it does not aim at attaining Buddhahood. | | | Before one attains Buddhahood, one will of course hope to be reborn in a heaven or human realm, but this should not be the ultimate aim of following the Buddha. |
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http://www.metta.lk/mirror/www.buddhanet.net/cbp1_f3.htm
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| | 3 - Hiyu Hon |
| | Sariputra was one of the disciples of the Buddha in past, and vowed to attain Buddhahood at that time. | | | In Chapter 3, however, Sariputra is assured of his future Buddhahood with the name of Flower-Light Buddha, if he continues to practice the One Buddha Vehicle. | | | When the congregation heard this message of Sakyamuni Buddha, they were delighted to hear the teaching of the One Vehicle, which they had never heard before. |
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http://lotus.nichirenshu.org/lotus/lectures/lotus_03.htm
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| | Romancing the Buddha |
| | In other words, Buddhism refers to all the sutras which Shakyamuni Buddha expounded in what is today called India in approximately 500 B.C.E. Nichiren's teachings (13th century Japan) are referred to as the Buddhism of sowing, in contrast with the earlier teachings of Shakyamuni, which are called the Buddhism of the harvest. | | | In contract, the Buddhism of sowing implants the seeds of Buddhahood, or Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, in the lives of those who had no connection with the Buddha in their past existences. | | | The Buddhism of the harvest is that which can lead to enlightenment only for those who received the seeds of Buddhahood by practicing the Buddha's teachings in previous lifetimes. |
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http://www.romancingthebuddha.com/stories/glossary.htm
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| | AMITABHA Buddha |
| | When I obtain Buddhahood, the heavenly beings of the boundless and inconceivable Buddha-worlds across the ten quarters, having heard my name, will worship me with prostrate reverence, and will joyfully and faithfully perform their Bodhisattva-duty, and will be honored by gods and men. | | | When I obtain the Buddhahood, the heavenly beings of my land, should they desire a garment, will be able to perceive themselves, as quick as thought, covered by apparitionally produced costumes, excellent to their satisfaction, worthy to be praised by the Buddha, without the work of sewing, washing, dying, and so on. | | | "When I attain Buddhahood, if the Bodhisattvas of my land wish to see the boundless, holy, pure Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters, they will at once behold them from the jewel-trees as though their faces were being reflected in a highly burnished, brilliant mirror. |
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http://www.geocities.com/medic_sangye/vows.html
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| | What Buddhists Believe - Attainment of Buddhahood |
| | He attained Buddhahood by the purification of His mind and heart. | | | Therefore, the Buddha's advice to His followers is that in order to find their salvation it is not necessary for each and every person to wait until he gains his Buddhahood. | | | he Buddhahood is not reserved only for chosen people or for supernatural beings. |
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http://www.budsas.org/ebud/whatbudbeliev/23.htm
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| | Welcome to This is Toni's Place - SGI - CONCEPTS |
| | Through this practice, one is able to reveal the state of Buddhahood in one's life, experienced as the natural development of joy, increased vitality, courage, wisdom and compassion. | | | The Gohonzon, together with a practitioner's faith and chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, acts as a stimulus to activate the life-condition of Buddhahood innate in one's life. | | | Nichiren established the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as a means to enable all people to put their lives in harmony or rhythm with the law of life, or Dharma. |
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http://www.tonidunlap.com/concepts.htm
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| | Chapter Twenty-one |
| | This three-dimensional nature of Buddhahood reflects the unity of samsara and nirvana, of enlightenment and ignorance, of a pure vision of the universe and an impure vision of it. | | | Because the resolve to attain Buddhahood is based on these dualistic conceptions, it is called 'conventional.' The ultimate enlightenment consciousness, which we can metaphorically term 'the Buddha mind,' is a state in which dualities no longer have any meaning. | | | The conventional enlightenment thought is the determination or resolve to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all living beings. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/ch21.html
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| | Amitabha Pureland Web (Australia) - Vows 41 to 48 |
| | When I obtain the Buddhahood, the Bodhisattvas of that country of mine should be able to hear the preachings of the Dharma whenever they desire (the voices of teaching will present themselves naturally to their ears), otherwise may I refrain from attaining enlightenment. | | | When I attain the Buddhahood, if the Bodhisattvas of other worlds after having heard my name, should suffer from any diminution in the functional powers and not be endowed with all sense-organs in completion before reaching the Buddhahood, then may I not attain the enlightenment. | | | When I have obtain the Buddhahood, the Bodhisattvas of other countries having heard my name, all will attain the "Samantanugata"(the thoroughly and equal Samadhi in a fixed state of meditation) through that Samadhi they will see innumerable and inconceivable Buddhas constantly till they have obtained the Buddhahood, otherwise may I for-bear from obtaining enlightenment. |
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http://www.amtbweb.org/tchet155.htm
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| | Hell and Buddhahood, part 4 |
| | However, for the people of Buddhahood, it becomes the abode where the Buddha, in his property of action aspect, manifests his great mercy. | | | The river of the three crossings, which is the border between life and death, becomes the ocean of Buddhahood, where one realizes that sufferings are nirvana. | | | This story is told as an example because, as a dragon, she became a Buddha. |
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http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/jqpublic/lassh&b4.html
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| | The Great Discourse on the Wheel of Dhamma - Part 8 |
| | Fully convinced with the Buddha's supreme attainments, King Pasenadi Kosala took refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha and became a disciple of the Buddha from that time. | | | The Buddha, being true Buddha as he was, was able to give satisfactory answers to the king. | | | With these words the Buddha let it be known that for so long as he had not become a true Buddha, he should not have made a claim to it. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/wheeld08.htm
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| | On Attaining Buddhahood |
| | For example, the Jomyo Sutra says the Buddha's enlightenment is to be found in human life, thus showing that common mortals can attain Buddhahood and that the sufferings of birth and death can be transformed into nirvana. | | | It further states that if the minds of the people are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. | | | If you have deep faith in this truth and chant Myoho-renge-kyo, you are certain to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime. |
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http://sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Nichiren/Gosho/OnAttainingBuddhahood.htm
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| | 8 - The Assurance of Future Buddhahood of the Five Hundred DISCIPLES: Juki-hon, Lotus Sutra Lectures and Nichiren ... |
| | Even though we come to the Nichiren Buddhist Temple for ten or twenty years, it is not such a simple matter to attain Buddhahood. | | | This means that when we attain Buddhahood, we will be free like the wind because there will be no obstruction for us to attach ourselves to. | | | to hear the Buddha Sakyamuni's logical and consistent teachings, stories of his and his disciples' previous lives, parables and the assurance of future Buddhahood of these disciples. |
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| | Hell and Buddhahood, Part 2 |
| | The process of enduring everything to make Buddhahood our life-tendency is living the profound doctrine of "sokushin jobutsu", or attaining enlightenment as a common mortal. | | | This is the true motivation and action of one who has attained Buddhahood as a common mortal. | | | This is why Buddhism stresses the importance of being aware of our Buddha nature and enduring to express it through Buddhist practice. |
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http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/jqpublic/lassh&b2.html
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| | SGI - Buddhism |
| | This girl, often known as the dragon king’s daughter, appears and dramatically demonstrates her attainment of Buddhahood, illustrating the principle of becoming a Buddha in one’s present form. | | | There is no difference between men and women in terms of their capacity to attain Buddhahood, as both are equally manifestations of the ultimate reality. | | | The Lotus Sutra is sometimes called the teaching of nondiscrimination, because it reveals that the state of Buddhahood is inherent in all phenomena. |
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http://www.sgi.org/english/Buddhism/more/more08.htm
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| | Spirituality & Health: The Way to Buddhahood |
| | According to Yin-shun, all the "grades of the Way" as taught by the Buddha are grouped into 37 — the four stages of mindfulness, the fourfold diligence, the fourfold basis of supernatural power, the five roots, the five powers, the seven branches of enlightenment, and the eight parts of the right path. | | | In The Way to Buddhahood Venerable Yin-shun, who lives and teaches at a monastery in central Taiwan, explicates his vision of the Dharma. | | | According to the Buddha, the direct realization of enlightenment comes from practice. |
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http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/bookreview/item_871.html
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| | Guruji on Buddhahood
Enlightenment of Community |
| | As one of the tenets of Maha Bodhisattva Nichiren's teachings, he preached attainment of Buddhahood of "ichinen-sanzen". | | | One is not to seek Buddhahood only for oneself by entering deep into a mountain, but must become Buddha together with the people of one's community who one sees everyday. | | | This is what is referred to as "the Buddhahood of communities". |
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http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/Buddhahood.html
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| | Letter 1 to Soka Gakkai President Daisaku Ikeda |
| | We believe that when a person attains Buddhahood, it is a wondrous event, yes, even capable of changing the destiny of the world. | | | We're confused because we have read and understand that Buddhahood is the awakening to the Eternal Buddha within one's own life. | | | We just need to have faith in the Eternal and Original Buddha within, and reveal our own Buddhahood through our actions to refute and teach others the true way…that is the message we read from both Shakyamuni and Nichiren. |
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http://www.nbaa.tv/doct_issues/study/Letter_to_Ikeda2.htm
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| | Resource Library/Living Buddhism |
| | Not attaining Buddhahood (or remaining dependent upon religious authority), therefore, became their goal or their accustomed state of Buddhist practice. | | | Ignorant of the purpose and intent of Buddhism and manipulated by the religious authorities, people were unable to grasp the essence of Buddhist practice and devoted themselves to it in vain. | | | In this sense, the Daishonin explains: “To believe that Buddhahood exists within Humanity is the most difficult thing of all—as difficult as believing that fire exists in water or water in fire. |
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| | It was taught that they could not obtain enlightenment because they had burned the seed of Buddhahood, and that although the faces of women seemed like those of bodhisattvas, their hearts were filled with jealousy as strong as demons. | | | She earnestly embraced faith in the Lotus Sutra and attained Buddhahood." Surprised, Bodhisattva Chishaku said, "Even the World Honored One carried out Bodhisattva austerities for a long time without being able to rest for even a moment and as a result was finally able to attain Buddhahood. | | | However, within the correct teachings of the Buddha, it is preached that all living beings, no matter what form of the Ten Worlds their lives take, inherently possess the seed of Buddhahood and are able to attain enlightenment through correct faith. |
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| | Gosho: The Doctrine of Attaining Buddhahood in One's Present Form |
| | As the eighth of these, it names the sutra’s "superiority in leading people to attain Buddhahood in their present form." Later on, the commentary states: "You should understand that this passage is inquiring whether there are any persons who have attained Buddhahood, and so intends to manifest the great power and authority of this sutra.... | | | These three men have declared that the Hokke-Tendai sect’s doctrine of attaining Buddhahood in one’s present form represents only the esoteric doctrines, while the Shingon sect’s teaching of attaining Buddhahood in one’s present form represents the esoteric doctrines and practices. | | | Thus, although the persons on Mount Hiei at present seem to be propounding the Lotus Sutra’s doctrine of attaining Buddhahood in one’s present form, they are in fact propounding the attainment of Buddhahood in one’s present form as put forward by the Great Teacher Jikaku, Annen and the others. |
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http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Nichiren/Gosho/AttainBuddhahoodOnesPresent.htm
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| | Attaining the highest Bliss of Buddhahood |
| | At the outset, develop the proper motivation to listen to the Buddha's teachings, preferably, in tune with Bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain Buddhahood so that one could be of ultimate benefit to all sentient beings. | | | He said that these three are the indispensable causes for attaining Buddhahood for oneself and others. | | | Cultivation of Universal Compassion as the root cause for Buddhahood |
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http://www.purifymind.com/BlissBuddha.htm
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| | BoW: Attain Buddhahood |
| | It has been said of Him that there was no religious teacher who was "ever so godless as the Buddha, yet none was so god-like." In His own time the Buddha was no doubt highly venerated by His followers, but He never arrogated to Himself any divinity. | | | Before His Enlightenment He was called Bodhisatta which means one who is aspiring to attain Buddhahood. | | | Since He not only comprehends but also expounds the doctrine and enlightens others, He is called a Samma-Sambuddha --a Fully Enlightened One -- to distinguish Him from Pacceka (Individual) Buddhas who only comprehend the doctrine but are incapable of enlightening others. |
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http://www.serve.com/cmtan/LifeBuddha/buddha3.htm
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| | Buddhism Society - Dharma Talks |
| | I vow that as long as there is a single god in the Triple Realm who has not accomplished Buddhahood, I too will not attain the right enlightenment. | | | I vow that as long as there is a single human being in the worlds of the ten directions who has not accomplished Buddhahood, I too will not attain the right enlightenment. | | | I vow that as long as there is a single asura who has not accomplished Buddhahood, I too will not attain the right enlightenment. |
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http://www.brown.edu/students/Buddhism_Society/profiledir/hsuanhuadir/eighteenvows.html
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| | Refuting Nichiren Shoshu/Part I/Introduction |
| | To ignore these teachings and assert that formal religious services conducted by a priest are indispensable to attaining Buddhahood is a corruption and distortion of Nichiren Buddhism. | | | If funeral services conducted by priests were essential ceremonies for the attainment of Buddhahood, then it would seem natural that Nichiren Daishonin would have explained their importance. | | | Rather, the Daishonin strongly emphasizes that each individual's attainment of Buddhahood depends on his or her faith and practice while alive. |
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Levels of Buddhahood |
| | "The Dharma-Cloud": all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas rejoice in your elation at having attained Buddhahood completely. | | | it is said that once the 7th Bhumi is attained, the Buddhas prophesy concerning your achieving Buddhahood, and will indicate your Buddha-Name and circumstances. | | | Then, many schools would tell you: the first level of Biodhisattva (those who "first move their heart of going toward complete Buddhahood) has been a total Buddha. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=1434
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Buddha Amitabha |
| | (19) If, when I attain Buddhahood, sentient beings in the lands of the ten directions, who awaken aspiration for Enlightenment, do various meritorious deeds and sincerely desire to be born in my land, should not, at their death, see me appear before them surrounded by a multitude of sages, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment. | | | (24) If, when I attain Buddhahood, bodhisattvas in my land should not be able, as they wish, to perform meritorious acts of worshipping the Buddhas with the offerings of their choice, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment. | | | (35) If, when I attain Buddhahood, women in the immeasurable and inconceivable Buddha-lands of the ten directions who, having heard my Name, rejoice in faith, awaken aspiration for Enlightenment and wish to renounce womanhood, should after death be reborn again as women, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=54
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| | The Essence of Buddhahood, Part Two |
| | For what the Tathagatas teach, Mahamati, is the doctrine of Essential Nature of Buddhahood having the meaning of being devoid of will-effort, ineffable, inborn, Nirvana, Reality-limit, Voidness.... | | | All that exists is contained within the suchness or "tathata" of the Buddha and all beings participate in the nature of the Tathagata, whose Absolute Body penetrates all living beings. | | | As the Lankavatara Sutra states, all that exists is contained within the suchness or "tathata" of the Buddha and all beings participate in the nature of his Absolute Body, which penetrates all living beings. |
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http://www.borobudur.tv/lanka_02.htm
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| | No Time for Self-interests |
| | Upon careful consideration of the meaning of "he would not have wished to attain Buddhahood" and "he has not wished to attain Buddhahood" I realized that a popular saying in Chinese Buddhism about Bodhisattva Earth Treasure, that says, "When hells are not yet empty he vows not to attain Buddhahood," is not proper. | | | Even though "he would not have wished to attain Buddhahood" and "he has not wished to attain Buddhahood" might seem to indicate that he does not wish to attain Buddhahood, nevertheless, attaining Buddhahood is not a hindrance to rescuing beings from sufferings, why does he need to avoid it? | | | One king, who vowed to remain forever in converting sentient beings that are suffering in sins but has not wished to attain Buddhahood, is Bodhisattva Earth Treasure. |
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| | Buddhism in a Nutshell - Stages/Order of Positions of Progressive Development |
| | Due to their ignorance, sentient beings have to undergo rounds of birth and death in the Samsara. | | | If one learns from friends, teachers or sutras that Self-nature is a synonym of Buddha, he will understand that everything is the Means. | | | There is no question of their realization of Enlightenment. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/passissue/9703/sources/teach27.htm
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| | 6 - Juki-hon |
| | Although the Buddha assures of Buddhahood, we still wish him to call our names individually and to give us the names of the Buddhas. | | | The previous chapter ends with the words, "Study and practice it continuously, and you will become Buddhas." In this chapter, Sâkyamuni Buddha gives assurance of future Buddhahood to four of his ten great disciples. | | | We shall feel as cool and as refreshed as if we were sprinkled with nectar. |
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| | Consolation Buddhahood for Tibet's Panchen losers |
| | Tsering Wangdu and Ngawang Namdrol, both six years old when they were runners-up for Panchen Lama last year, had been chosen as reincarnations of other living Buddhas, it said. | | | >From: C-reuters@clari.net (Reuters) >Subject: Consolation Buddhahood for Tibet's Panchen losers >Organization: Copyright 1996 by Reuters >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 8:30:22 PDT BEIJING (Reuter) - The children who were nearly chosen as the latest reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second-highest spiritual leader, are now living Buddhas, Xinhua news agency said Thursday. |
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| | The Essence of Buddhahood, Part Three |
| | However, with regard to one Buddhist use for the word "garbha" as the embryo of Buddhahood the composer of the Lankavatara Sutra has elected to use the term as the preferred synonym for the Essence-of-the-Tathagata, rejecting the word for primordial substance (prakriti) as it appears in various Hindu texts. | | | On the monument's lower levels, the architect has unveiled a total of 720 relief panels that are either dedicated to the exposition of the Buddha's careers as a Bodhisattva or to the spiritual careers of various other Buddhist saints. | | | Their over-riding purpose is to acquaint the spiritual celebrant with practical examples that not only illustrates the Law of of Karma but also exemplify the moral discipline of the paramitas, which which every aspirant to Buddhahood must embody as visible parts of their very being. |
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| | Dharma Realm Buddhist Association - Dharma |
| | Before he realized Buddhahood, Amitabha Buddha, as the Bhikshu Dharma Treasury, vowed to create the Land of Ultimate Bliss where living beings of the ten directions who vowed to be born there could gain rebirth by reciting his name. | | | Before Amitabha Buddha realized Buddhahood, during his cultivation on the "cause ground," he was a Bhikshu named Dharma Treasury who made forty-eight vows. | | | Why do we recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha?" It is because Amitabha Buddha has a great affinity with living beings in the ten directions. |
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http://www.drba.org/dharma/amitabha.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies) |
| | To enter the Mahayana Buddhist path to enlightenment is to seek both to become free from our dualistic, deluded world and to remain actively engaged in that world until all others are free. | | | Revealing this tension as the basis of the Abhisamayalamkara controversy, Makransky shows its connection to many other Indo-Tibetan controversies revolving around the same tension: disagreements over buddhahood's knowledge, embodiment, and accessibility to beings (in Buddha nature and through the path). | | | This enabled Indians and Tibetans to read very different perspectives on enlightenment into the Abhisamayalamkara, through which they responded to the questions in startlingly different ways. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0791434311?v=glance
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| | The Demonstration of the Inconceivable State of Buddhahood Sutra |
| | Once the Buddha was dwelling in the garden of Anathapin-dada, in the Jeta Grove near Sravasti, accompanied by one thousand monks, ten thousand Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas, and many gods of the Realm of Desire and the Realm of Form. | | | World-Honored One, if the nature of the defilements were different from the nature of the state of Buddhahood, then it could not be said that the Buddha abides in the equality of all things. | | | The World-Honored One told Manjusri, "You should explain the profound state of Buddhahood for the celestial beings and the Bodhisattvas of this assembly." |
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http://www.mandala.hr/3/stateofbuddha.html
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| | Buddhism in a Nutshell - Time Taken to Attain Enlightenment |
| | According to the theory of this school, for those people of superior root and intellect "implanted in former life", they are bestowed with the three mystic powers of the Enlightened one, besides their own intensive practice of the special expedient means of this Tantric Sect. | | | According to the Doctrine of Buddhism, in general, however, "The One is all the Six" upholds that the principle of Buddhahood and the six aspects of realizing Buddhahood are not two things but mutually integrated and complementary to each other. | | | It is because as soon as ignorance, the root cause of suffering, is eliminated, all the lesser delusions would be automatically removed, as the saying has it, "to destroy the one is to destroy all". |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/passissue/9703/sources/teach28.htm
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| | The nuns : Women can be Buddha The first and last Disciples of Shakyamuni : Both the being in the world of Bodhisattvas and hell can be in Buddhahood. | | | When we awaken the realm expounded at the ceremony of the Air, we attain power to accomplish anything. | | | The ceremony that take place in the "Emergence of Treasure Tower" chapter reveal that we too can manifest the state of Buddhahood within us. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wpb/sdmtg2004apr03.doc
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| | On Attaining Buddhahood |
| | If people chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo bringing forth their Buddha nature, then they simultaneously manifest Buddhahood in the places where they live, in accordance with the principle of the oneness of life and its environment. | | | Those who do so shall travel the straight road to Buddhahood “ Never doubt in the slightest, but keep your faith and attain enlightment in this lifetime. | | | This is a passage that we can relate to the word esho funi. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~dbertran/SGI_test/KR_oct12_2003/on_attaining_buddhahood.htm
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| | There is a phrase in the Mahaparinirvana-sutra that goes as follows: "He who desires to know the meaning of Buddhahood should survey the time and wait for the occasion to come. | | | In other places Dogen says: "Death and life are the very life of the Buddha," and "These mountains, rivers and earth are all the See of Buddhahood." In the Lotus Sutra, Dogen finds the same vein of thought: "Concerning the Lotus Sutra. | | | Accordingly, righteous practice for one day is the Seed of Buddhahood, of the righteous action of All the Buddhas."(23) |
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http://www.drury.edu/ess/Culture/japanese.htm
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| | Buddhahood in Three Dimensions |
| | In chapter 20 of the Lotus Sutra, we are introduced to a beautiful bodhisattva called Sadaparibhuta, “Never Disparaging.” The name of this bodhisattva can also be translated as “Never Despising.” This bodhisattva never underestimates living beings or doubts their capacity for buddhahood. |
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http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/issues/2004/spring/buddhahoodin3d.html
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Buddhist Bible . August 16, 2002 PBS |
| | As such it is a manifestation of Buddhahood's love and wisdom; it is Buddhahood taking form within one's own mind as a coming Buddha. | | | By intuition the mind becomes identified with Truth and attains wisdom by itself becoming Truth. | | | Sitting quietly with humble and patient mind, with earnest and disciplined mind, waiting for the clouds of karma and the defilements of mind to clear away so that the pure brightness within may shine forth, illumining the mind, revealing that self is nothing, mind-essence is everything. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week550/buddhistbible.html
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| | The Buddha - Buddhahood and Arahatship |
| | There have been Buddhas in the dim past and there will be Buddhas in the future when necessity arises and conditions are favourable. | | | It is an achievement open to anyone who earnestly strives for perfect purity and wisdom, and with inflexible will cultivates the pârami, the perfections which are the requisites of Buddhahood, and the Noble Eightfold Path. | | | Perfect Enlightenment, the discovery and realization of the Four Noble Truths (Buddhahood), is not the prerogative of a single being chosen by divine providence, nor is it a unique and unrepeatable event in human history. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/bud_lt18.htm
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| | Bodhidharma : On Lineage - Even Butcher Can Attain the Buddhahood |
| | All the Buddhas, former and later, have taught a Dharma-of-transmitting-the-mind and no other dharma. | | | without knowing a letter, Buddhahood can be attained. | | | Bodhidharma: I have told you just to see the self-nature; not about the resulting karma; although one who saw self-nature is creating karma, still, he is different from the confused ones; that is, all variety of karma would not imprison him. |
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http://www.buddhism.org/dharma/Hye-Am/bo-lineage-Butcher.html
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