Dharma Wheel

That's the problem isn't it? Scholarship on the councils is scattered and disjointed at best and we have differing views from different traditions. Yes, and people doing vinaya research in the generations after Schopen have spun it off more into using it as a tool to tell us something about Buddhis...

I could now find only one source for the scheme of 106 or so stages. There used to be more sources quite easily available in Internet. This one is from a Commentary of Li Tongxuan to the Gandavyuha sutra or Entry Into the Realm of Reality. Translator Thomas Cleary writes:   "In the realm of pri...

a bodhisattva is also a buddha. No. A Bodhisattva is a sentient being whose actions are completely devoted to enlightenment specifically for all beings. A Bodhisattva aspires to lead all sentient beings to enlightenment. A Bodhisattva does not have to be on the bhumi's to be a Bodhisattva. Arya Bod...

There is THE FIRST BUDDHIST COUNCIL by Teitaro Suzuki, available in https://sacred-texts.com/journals/mon/1stbudcn.htm And in Wisdom library there is interesting discussion and information, like: " Place : As regards the place of the First Council there is some dispute. According to Cullavagga,...

a bodhisattva is also a buddha. No. A Bodhisattva is a sentient being whose actions are completely devoted to enlightenment specifically for all beings. A Bodhisattva aspires to lead all sentient beings to enlightenment. A Bodhisattva does not have to be on the bhumi's to be a Bodhisattva. Arya Bod...

Some buddhist traditions of tantra say that Manjushri is also a Buddha. He is called "Father of (past) Buddhas", being the embodiment of Perfect Wisdom. Avalokiteshvara can appear also as a Buddha. Lotus sutra, in chapter 25. Universal Door of Guanyin Bodhisattva, says: "The Buddha to...

Thank you I am happy of where I stand. a bodhisattva is also a buddha. That’s simply incorrect, in Theravada or Mahayana. Insofar as Theravada referring to the Buddha in previous lives prior to Gautama, the term bodhisattva is sometimes used. I don’t think they ever use it to refer to anyone else. ...

Thanks! I watched part 1., it is quite interesting.

something is always made up of opposing factors or qualities,thus is non-essential,space cannot really be a entity or thing or it would be essential,which would mean essentiality and emptiness would both be coherent,which is absurd because emptiness is clearly the nature of things. Nirvana is also ...

I call myself a bodhisattva too. but I don't have a goal to empty the hell realms until emptied. rather ı'm just trying to be with divine (nature of divine), in Buddhism it is the good. that's all. in this way; the truth manifest itself effortless. So then not actually a bodhisattva, and not on the...

Indian buddhist scholar Vasumitra wrote in his Samaya-bhedopa-chakra: "One hundred or so years after the Buddha's death, when a king named Asoka, living in the Magadha kingdom, ruled overJambudvipa (i.e., India), the great Buddhist order for the first time split into four groups over the five p...

The bodhisattva Ksitigharba took the vow to postpone his own full awakening (enlightenment) until all of the hell realms were emptied. This has helped to inspire the Bodhisattva vow to devote one’s practice to the liberation of all beings. However, there are two different ways that this vow had bee...

1) Issues with Madhyamaka's usage of an 'infinite chain of casualty' as a concept The point of the cosmological argument is that an infinite chain of causes is impossible as this would lead to an infinite regression of causes, which is considered impossible. I have heard Buddhists say that infinite...

In Mahavastu, which is an early sutra considered to be proto-mahayana and which belongs to the Lokottaravada school of Indian Buddhism, the funeral pyre for the rupakaya of Shakyamuni Buddha cannot be ignited before Mahakashyapa has arrived to the place. Once he has come he asks the elder Katyayanan...

Bit of a long and philosophically complex set of questions here. I have a friend who is a deist and they know some arguments for why a God-like first cause of the universe exists, and I have ran into some issues with aspects of the Madhyamaka view on the subject of these arguments. It would be grea...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/Isaline-Blew_Horner_roi_low_resolution.tif/lossy-page1-270px-Isaline-Blew_Horner_roi_low_resolution.tif.jpg "On 30 March 1896 Isaline Blew Horner was born in Walthamstow in Essex, England. Horner was a first cousin once removed of the Britis...

Two excerpts from the above mentioned paper, page 6: "Seminaries thus occupy a central place in monasticism and yet still have ambiguous roles in Chinese Buddhism. Graduation from seminary is now one important route to authority within the sangha, and according to documents released by the Budd...

This seems really interesting, I have read some of it, :

BUDDHIST MONASTIC EDUCATION: SEMINARIES, ACADEMIA, AND THE STATE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA; Gildow, Douglas, Princeton University, 2016 https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/ ... 1hd76s2540

War is necessary and useful for the state religion. No war is true. (my words) I'm not sure what you want to say. The primary meaning of word true is "being in accordance with the actual state of affairs" (in Merriam-Webster dictionary). Wars actually take place. This is a truthful senten...