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| | Tathagata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tathagata as thus-gone implies that the Buddha was a pioneer and the task of the practitioner or devotee is to follow and imitate and, ultimately, achieve what Buddha achieved. | | | Tathagata as come-from-thusness, (Japanese: Nyorai) on the other hand, implies that the Buddha came to save us and give us refuge and that what is required of the practitioner is faith and devotion. | | | These Bodhisattvas are Tathāgatas, but they are not yet able to demonstrate as Buddhas (because the wheel of Dharma is already turned), and will have to wait until a suitable time and place occurs before they can manifest as Buddhas. |
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| | The Essence of Buddhahood, Part Two |
| | Thusness defiled (the embryo of the Tathagata) is the Tathagata-garbha, and Thusness undefiled is Enlightenment (dharmakaya)." (14) | | | 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.... | | | In the Lankavatara Sutra, however, the Tathagata carefully establishes that his teachings do not in any way contravene the Buddhist doctrine of Anatman, which is the denial of the reality of a Self independent of causes and conditions. |
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| | The Bodhisattva's Confession of Moral Downfalls |
| | To Him who is the Bhagawan, the Tathagata, the Arhant, the Fully Enlightened One, to Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, I bow down. | | | To the Tathagata who is the Celestial Being of the Celestial Waters, I bow down. | | | To the Tathagata, the Glorious One who is Mindful, I bow down. |
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| | Tathagata |
| | One of the titles of Gautama Buddha, and the highest epithet, since the first and the last Buddhas were the direct immediate avatars of the One Deity. | | | Tathagata: Name used by Buddha Gautama to refer to himself, meaning "thus come." Some authors feel this is a sign of his enlightened state. | | | Tathagata: Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary on Treatise on the Treasure Vehicle of Buddhahood |
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| | MAHAYANA SUTRA OF THE THREE SUPERIOR HEAPS |
| | O All you [Tathagatas] and all the others, however many Tathagatas, the Foe Destroyers, the Completely Perfect Buddhas, the Blessed Ones there are dwelling and abiding in all the worldly realms of the ten directions, all you Buddhas, the Blessed Ones, please listen to me. | | | To the Tathagata Glorious Array Illuminating All I prostrate. | | | To the Tathagata God of Water Deities I prostrate. |
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| | Diamond Wisdom Transcendence Sutra |
| | Tathagata says, 'All forms are not forms in themselves,' also says, 'All sentient beings are not sentient beings in themselves.' Subhuti, Tathagata is one that speaks the truth, one that says the substance, one that is as spoken, one that does not lie, and one that does not change his sayings. | | | Are there sayings of Tathagata that are teachings?" Subhuti said, "According to my understanding of the meaning of what the Buddha said, there is neither a definite thing named as 'the unsurpassable right and full enlightenment', nor definite teachings that Tathagata could say. | | | What Tathagata says as adorning Buddha Land is not adorning in itself, but is named as 'adorning'. |
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| | Sukhavativyuha Sutra |
| | And that Bhagavat Amitabha, the Tathagata, holy and fully enlightened, overshadowing that mass of Sravakas and that mass of Bodhisattvas, is seen, illuminating all quarters. | | | After Simhamati, a holy and fully enlightened Tathagata arose in the world, Lokesvararaja by name, perfect in knowledge and conduct, a Sugata, knowing the world, without a superior, charioteer of men whose passions have to be tamed, teacher of gods and men, a Buddha, a Bhagavat. | | | From the place of the Tathagata Vaisaradyaprapta, sixty-nine kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati, in order to see the Tathagata Amitabha, to bow before him, to worship him, to ask questions of him, and to consult him. |
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| | The Diamond Sutra - Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra |
| | The Tathagata has explained that the worlds are not worlds: these are called 'worlds'. | | | World Honored One, the Tathagata has said that the billion realms are then not realms: these are called realms. | | | For this reason, the Tathagata says that all of the dharmas are all the buddhadharma. |
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| | Amida Nyorai (Tathagata, Buddha) - Japanese Buddhist Deity; Photo Dictionary |
| | Amida is also one of the Five Great Buddha (Tathagata) of Wisdom. | | | Amida, which means Infinite Light or Infinite Life, is one of the loftiest savior figures in Japanese Buddhism, and Amida faith is concerned primarily with the life to come (paradise). | | | In his descent from paradise to lead the faithful back to the pure land, Amida is most often flanked by two bodhisattvas, Avalokitesvara (Kannon), and Mahasthamaprapta (Seishi). |
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| | THE VAGRAKKHEDIKA OR DIAMOND-CUTTER |
| | Because, O Subhuti, when the Tathagata preached: "The qualities of Buddha, the qualities of Buddha indeed!" they were preached by him as no-qualities of Buddha. | | | Because, O Subhuti, the highest perfect knowledge of the holy and enlightened Tathagatas is produced from it; the blessed Buddhas are produced from it. | | | And, O Subhuti, what the Tathagata preaches as the Paramaparamita, that was preached also by immeasurable blessed Buddhas. |
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| | THE TATHAGATA ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS ENTERED NIRVANA |
| | Although the Tathagata has not entered Nirvana, he makes a show of entering Nirvana, for the sake of those who have to be educated. | | | But when I have spoken of other Tathagatas, beginning with the Tathagata Dipinkara, and of the Nirvana of these Tathagatas, then that has just been conjured up by me as an emission of the skill in means by which I demonstrate Dharma. | | | The Buddha, considered as a spiritual principle and not as a historical person, is called 'Tathagata.' The original meaning of the term is no longer known. |
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| | Buddha. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | B.C. The story of his life is overlaid with legend, the earliest written accounts dating 200 years after his death (see Buddhist literature). | | | He is also called the Tathagata [he who has come thus], Bhagavat [the Lord], and Sugata [well-gone]. |
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| | MN 63: Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta |
| | And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata both exists and does not exist,' there is the living of the holy life. | | | And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist' there is the living of the holy life. | | | And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata does not exist,' there is the living of the holy life. |
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| | Anthony's Journal |
| | The Tathagata speaks of forms which are not forms and of living beings who are not living beings. | | | This is why the Tathagata says that all Dharmas are Buddha's Dharmas. | | | Subhuti replied: 'Yes, yes, He can.' The Buddha said: 'Subhuti, if the Tathagata can be recognised by His thirty-two physical characteristics, a world ruler (cakravarti) would be the Tathagata.' Subhuti said to the Buddha: 'World Honoured One, as I understand your teaching, the Tathagata cannot be recognised by His thirty-two physical characteristics. |
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| | Sutra of the Merit and Virtue of the Past Vows of Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata |
| | The fourth is to be burned to death; the fifth is to drown; the sixth is to be devoured by wild beasts; the seventh is to fall from a steep cliff; the eighth is to be harmed by poison, voodoo, evil mantras, or corpse-raising ghosts; the ninth is to die from hunger and thirst. | | | If they heard the name of that Buddha, Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, in their former human existence, and they recall that Tathagata's name for the briefest moment while they are in the evil destinies, they will immediately be reborn in the human realm. | | | Because all Buddhas' karmas of body, speech, and mind are pure-World Honored One, the sun and moon could fall, wonderfully High, the king of mountains, could be toppled or shaken, but the words of the Buddhas never change. |
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| | Diamond Cutter Sutra |
| | In case anyone says that the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment, I tell you truly, Subhuti, that there is no Formula by which the Buddha attained it. | | | But you should realize that such men have not strengthened their root of merit under just one Buddha, or two Buddhas, or three, or four, or five Buddhas, but under countless Buddhas; and their merit is of every kind. | | | For if anyone says that the Tathagata sets forth a Teaching he really slanders Buddha and is unable to explain what I teach. |
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| | T367: The Smaller Pure Land Suutra |
| | Sariputra, it is from that tathagata's always emitting infinite, boundless, and wondrous lights which pervasively illuminate all the Buddha lands in the ten directions, offering those lands [a view of] that Buddha's activity without there being any obstacles. | | | In that realm is a World Honored One whose name is 'Infinite Lifespan' and 'Infinite Light'; a Tathagata, an Arhat of perfect awakening, who completely fulfills the ten epithets of the Buddhas. | | | There presently he resides with body and mind at rest, abides and upholds [that realm], and for the sentient beings expounds and propagates the Dharma which is most deep, minute, and wondrous, causing them to attain that most excellent blessing of peaceful happiness. |
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| | DN 16: Maha-parinibbana Sutta |
| | But it is not to this extent that a Tathagata is worshipped, honored, respected, venerated, or paid homage to. | | | Heavenly sandalwood powder fell from the sky, showering, strewing, and sprinkling the Tathagata's body in homage to him. | | | Heavenly coral-tree blossoms fell from the sky, showering, strewing, and sprinkling the Tathagata's body in homage to him. |
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| | Sutra on the Merits and Original Vows of Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light |
| | Ananda, all Sravakas, Pratyeka-Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas that had not attained Bhumis, cannot believe and comprehend it as truth, except Bodhisattvas that are on the verge of attaining Buddhahood. | | | Had they had the opportunity during their human lives to have briefly heard the name of Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light, then by this cause they would briefly recall the name of that Tathagata while they are now in the bad realms. | | | If they heard the epithet of World Honored One, Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light, then at the end of their lives there would be eight great Bodhisattvas who would come by supernatural powers to indicate the path to them. |
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| | The One That Has Come (S. |
| | (S. Tathagata, C. Ju-Lai, J. Nyorai) - This refers to the One That Has Come down into this world from the realm of the absolute spiritual reality (S. Tathata) to enlighten living beings and then reenters Nirvana, returning back to that absolute reality. | | | “The vehicle that comes from the path of absolute reality as-it-is and attains enlightenment (in this world) is called 'The One That Has Come' (S. Tathagata)”. | | | “In understanding according to the Dharma and teaching according to the Dharma we speak of The One That Has Come (S. Tathagata).” |
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| | The Tathagata is "Truly Gone" |
| | His given name was Siddhattha; as a wandering ascetic he went by his mother’s clan name, Gotama; he was known throughout his world as the sage of his father’s family, or Sàkyamuni; and when enlightened he became known as Buddha, the Awakened One. | | | His followers most often referred to him as Bhagavant, or “Blessed One,” but the name he almost always used for himself was Tathagata. | | | The word used here for “truly gone” is tathagatako (translated by E.M. Hare in the PTS edition as “gone for good”), and this story helps us considerably in understanding how the Buddha used the epitaph Tathagata to describe himself. |
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| | Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While major schools of Buddhism among the populace took Amitabha Tathagata, a buddha is said to be capable of taking believers to paradise after death. | | | Zen Buddhism in Japan took Sakyamuni as the principal image and taught to be a living Buddha with enlightenment by Zen meditation training. | | | The Samurai Suenaga facing Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan. |
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| | SN XLIV.6: Sariputta-Kotthita Sutta (4) |
| | "Now, friend Kotthita, when asked if the Tathagata exists after death, you say, 'That has not been declared by the Blessed One: "The Tathagata exists after death."' When asked if the Tathagata does not exist after death... | | | neither exists nor does not exist after death, you say, 'That too has not been declared by the Blessed One: "The Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist after death."' Now, what is the cause, what is the reason, why that has not been declared by the Blessed One?" | | | "That has not been declared by the Blessed One: 'The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death.'" |
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| | The Falun Emblem |
| | Beyond the level of Tathagata, there are numerous Buddhas. | | | We have found that these Senior Bodhisattvas have far surpassed the level of ordinary Buddhas, and they are even higher than a Tathagata. | | | Those who have reached beyond the level of Tathagata will have more |
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| | The Buddhist Monastic Code II: Chapter 21 |
| | The Buddha: "There are these eighteen grounds by which a speaker of not-Dhamma is to be known. | | | what was not regularly practiced by the Tathagata as 'not regularly practiced by the Tathagata'... | | | what was regularly practiced by the Tathagata as 'not regularly practiced by the Tathagata'... |
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| | The Greater Lion's Roar Sutra |
| | In the following excerpt, which epitomizes the entire scripture, I have re-inserted the repetitive passage: | | | And that is a Tathagata's power that the Tathagata has, by virtue of which he claims the herd-leader's place, roars his lion's roar in the assemblies, and sets rolling the Wheel of Brahma. | | | That too is a Tathagata's power that the Tathagata has, by virtue of which he claims the herd-leader's place, roars his lion's roar in the assemblies, and sets rolling the Wheel of Brahma. |
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