Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism ①
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2022
- Introduction to Buddhism Series 2-①
Professor Aaron Proffitt will lay the foundation for exploring Buddhist ideas and practices.
In this episode, you will learn about Mahayana Buddhism.
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TLDR: Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the belief that all beings are already on the path to awakening and have the capacity to transcend suffering.
1. 00:00 📚 Mahayana Buddhism will be covered broadly in this makeup class, with the option to email for further discussion or reading recommendations.
2. 01:44 🕉 Mahayana Buddhism focuses on the bodhisattva path, diverse cosmology, and the belief that all beings are already on the path to awakening.
2.1 The Buddhist world is divided into Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism, with the former focusing on individual awakening and the latter on the bodhisattva path.
2.2 Mahayana Buddhism encompasses a diverse cosmology and expands upon the idea that the real Buddha is the dharma, represented in East and Central Asia.
2.3 In Mahayana Buddhism, the path to awakening is diverse, with the belief that all beings are already on the path, and the cosmology includes limitless worlds and beings, as well as three bodies in buddhalogy.
3. 05:21 📚 Mahayana Buddhism teaches that enlightenment can appear in various forms, such as meeting Buddha in physical form or having visionary experiences of enlightened reality.
4. 06:54 📚 Mahayana Buddhism emerged as a radical break from traditional Buddhism, focusing on inclusivity and liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth.
4.1 The academic study of Buddhism in European languages originated under colonialism, with scholars seeking to control people on the other side of the world, and there are old and new theories about the development of Mahayana Buddhism.
4.2 Mahayana Buddhism was a radical break from traditional Buddhism, with a focus on democratic movement, protestantism, and the production of texts by meditators.
4.3 The Mahayana tradition emerged gradually within mainstream Buddhist communities and is characterized by the idea of inclusivity and the goal of liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth.
5. 10:09 🕉 Nirvana is accessible through practicing teachings, ultimate reality may manifest as buddhas, bodhisattvas, or gods, all beings possess buddha nature and have the capacity to transcend suffering.
5.1 Nirvana is not separate from ordinary reality, but rather accessible through practicing the teachings, and the ultimate reality may manifest as buddhas, bodhisattvas, or gods, all of which can help us awaken.
5.2 Mahayana Buddhism explores the tension between bodhisattvas as cosmic beings and as aspects of our own minds, with diversity and spiritual sci-fi elements in its sutras.
5.3 All beings possess buddha nature and have the inherent capacity to transcend suffering, with some mahayana texts emphasizing universalism and others emphasizing exclusivity.
6. 13:11 📚 Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the power of its texts and practices in aiding awakening, with intertextuality in sutras painting a big picture of the path to enlightenment.
6.1 Mahayana traditions emphasize the greatness of their texts and practices, which are often self-promotional and self-referential, and are said to possess great power and aid in awakening, with some texts being the product of visions and borrowing and blending together.
6.2 The sutras in Mahayana Buddhism have intertextuality and when read together, they paint a big picture of the path to awakening.
7. 15:42 📚 Buddhas in Mahayana Buddhism reveal the eternal truth of dharma, teach the nature of suffering, use skillful means to help beings, and guide them out of samsara.
7.1 The lecture discusses the meaning of buddhas, bodhisattvas, and gods in Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing the role of buddhas in revealing the eternal truth of dharma.
7.2 A buddha teaches the true nature of suffering, uses skillful means to teach beings, helps beings overcome bad karma, and guides beings out of samsara.
8. 17:59 🧘 Buddha is not separate from you, but is inside of you, and some traditions suggest that you are already buddha and just need to wake up to that truth.
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Great academic overview, thanks!
Mahayana Buddhism teaches the same universe as the real one, too. The three thousand worlds (三千世界) have a hierarchical structure, the same as the real universe with its galaxies, galaxy clusters, and bubble structures. The space of the universe is infinite, and time flows from the infinite past to the future. In the dust-like world (十方微塵世界) where the law of causality (因果応報) rules, there are countless Buddha lands (十方浄土). This indicates the existence of countless terrestrial planets. The real person, the Buddha, visited a world in the west, that is, the world of stars the sun sets, and he spoke about it himself because he wanted to talk about his wonderful experience. (無問自説) In Esoteric Buddhism (密教), the personification of the universe, Vairocana Buddha (大日如来), teaches the flowering of Buddha nature through compassion and wisdom. We are born in the universe, so we are part of Vairocana and are Buddhas in born. (即身成仏)
The Avatamsaka Sutra (華厳経) preaches the truth of the universe, that one is many and many is one (一即多・多即一), that the universe exists in dust or the pores of the skin, and the fractal multiverse. The time may come when we can attain the state of Buddha of sāgara-mudrā-samādhi (海印三昧) in a laboratory. In this infinite universe, the Eternal Buddha (久遠仏) of the Lotus Sutra (法華経) shows the existence of an infinite cycle of life together monotheism. God creates man, man attains enlightenment and becomes Buddha, the wisdom of Buddha fully realizes the essence of life, and when Buddha uses his wisdom to synthesize DNA and man appears, the Buddha becomes a God. God, man, and Buddha are syncretized, and this continues to rotate through compassion. From the above, I think Buddhism is a teaching of the path to awakening which came from the sky. (梵天勧請)
If the world's, Buddhas and sentient beings are limitless how then is it ever possible that
they would all eventually attain nirvana?
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