Way to Buddhahood
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Way to Buddhahood
Ven. Huifeng has an excellent outline of this book and all of the verses Ven. Master Yin Shun wrote:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid= ... UyMDc3YjEw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The book and outline owe something to the lamrim tradition, but I was wondering if the ancient Chinese tradition had any sort of native 'stages of the path' teachings?
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid= ... UyMDc3YjEw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The book and outline owe something to the lamrim tradition, but I was wondering if the ancient Chinese tradition had any sort of native 'stages of the path' teachings?
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
Re: Way to Buddhahood
It's called the "panjiao" 判教, classification of doctrines. Different schools had different versions of course.
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Thanks Astus. Although I am interested in stages of practice, not so much "classification of doctrines". Any influential examples before 900CE; any translated into English?Astus wrote:It's called the "panjiao" 判教, classification of doctrines. Different schools had different versions of course.
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The Tiantai system lays out stages fairly clearly. One of the major meditation texts by Master Zhiyi is called the "Explanation of the Graduated Dharma of the Perfection of Meditation" 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門. That's 6th cty. Very, very influential.Will wrote:Thanks Astus. Although I am interested in stages of practice, not so much "classification of doctrines". Any influential examples before 900CE; any translated into English?Astus wrote:It's called the "panjiao" 判教, classification of doctrines. Different schools had different versions of course.
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Oh, and of course, thanks for this link to the file on my blog.Will wrote:Ven. Huifeng has an excellent outline of this book and all of the verses Ven. Master Yin Shun wrote:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid= ... UyMDc3YjEw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The book and outline owe something to the lamrim tradition, but I was wondering if the ancient Chinese tradition had any sort of native 'stages of the path' teachings?
The blog itself can be found here: http://prajnacara.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thanks Venerable. Just to see what would happen I put the Chinese title into Google translate and did not find it understandable. Is there any online (free or not) classical Chinese translation program that does at least give one the gist - in English?Huifeng wrote:The Tiantai system lays out stages fairly clearly. One of the major meditation texts by Master Zhiyi is called the "Explanation of the Graduated Dharma of the Perfection of Meditation" 釋禪波羅蜜次第法門. That's 6th cty. Very, very influential.Will wrote:Thanks Astus. Although I am interested in stages of practice, not so much "classification of doctrines". Any influential examples before 900CE; any translated into English?Astus wrote:It's called the "panjiao" 判教, classification of doctrines. Different schools had different versions of course.
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Guys, is there any difference between words Buddhaship and Buddhahood? Or it's the same?
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These are newly created English terms, but yes they would be identical.Dharma Atma wrote:Guys, is there any difference between words Buddhaship and Buddhahood? Or it's the same?
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There is Dushun's meditation manual, translated by T. Cleary in Entry into the Inconceivable. It uses stages of meditation practice in line with the classification of doctrines. Actually, the classification itself can be understood as what follows what, just as in lamrim.Will wrote:Thanks Astus. Although I am interested in stages of practice, not so much "classification of doctrines". Any influential examples before 900CE; any translated into English?
It's easy to tell the difference.Dharma Atma wrote:Guys, is there any difference between words Buddhaship and Buddhahood? Or it's the same?
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Re: Way to Buddhahood
Huseng wrote:yes they would be identical
Astus wrote:It's easy to tell the difference
Thank you for the answers, but I have to say that they don't answer the question.
Intuitively I tend to agree with Huseng... But I don't know for sure.
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They are identical, but 'buddhaship' is not found in any modern dictionaries I have checked. It was used by HC Warren in his translation of the Jataka Tales. He wrote, for example, "the attainment of buddhaship" - meaning 'buddhahood'.Dharma Atma wrote:Guys, is there any difference between words Buddhaship and Buddhahood? Or it's the same?
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Hi Will,Will wrote: Thanks Venerable. Just to see what would happen I put the Chinese title into Google translate and did not find it understandable. Is there any online (free or not) classical Chinese translation program that does at least give one the gist - in English?
That's probably because most of the name is a phonetic transliteration, not a translation of the meaning.
As for such online translation programs... if you can find <DDB Access>, that should give something slightly better.
But for titles, just use a good Chinese-English Buddhist dictionary.
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I recall in a class last year which studied this book and an elderly man (known for his provocation) took the book and tossed it on the table space in front of him...
Narrow minded..... if everyone followed what he stated, there goes the economy and finance.... unrealistic... out of touch with reality....
I merely smiled...
Narrow minded..... if everyone followed what he stated, there goes the economy and finance.... unrealistic... out of touch with reality....
I merely smiled...
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Am presently preparing class notes for the coming semester, and found some very nice resources for the study of "The Way to Buddhahood". The first is "The Way to Buddhahood, Teaching Materials Compilation" (《成佛之道》教材彙編) by Ven. Qingde (釋清德), which has other materials mainly from Ven. Yin Shun for the whole of the original book, verse by verse. Another is Ven. Hou Guan's (釋厚觀) lectures that he gave at Fu Yen Vihara (福嚴精舍) a few years ago. Again, the whole book verse by verse, with more materials for each part, though here most of the materials are primary sources from sutra and sastra. Sorry, this is all in Chinese, but thought I'd share nonetheless!
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Hmm... Thank you. I'll think about itWill wrote:They are identical, but 'buddhaship' is not found in any modern dictionaries I have checked. It was used by HC Warren in his translation of the Jataka Tales. He wrote, for example, "the attainment of buddhaship" - meaning 'buddhahood'.
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