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by User 3495
Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:13 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Pure land sutras commentaries
Replies: 9
Views: 804

Re: Pure land sutras commentaries

Not sure if it is really beneficial to include a text written by a private individual who invented his own tradition/lineage (in which he is the lieage holder, of course).
by User 3495
Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:12 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: What guarantees rebirth?
Replies: 8
Views: 746

Re: What guarantees rebirth?

In Jōdo Shū it is taught that while practicing nenbutsu during one's lifetime we create a close connection with Amida and he will come to welcome us at the moment of our death to ensure we have the right state of mind for birth in the Pure Land. Practitioners do not have to achieve nenbutsu samadhi ...
by User 3495
Tue Mar 29, 2022 8:42 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Pure Land Text Reading Group (by Zoom)
Replies: 7
Views: 692

Re: Pure Land Text Reading Group (by Zoom)

What a great initiative! I'd be very interested to join but cannot make it at that time (9 hours earlier would be perfekt 😅).

I am hoping to be able to join one day! 🙏
by User 3495
Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:37 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

I don't share your assumption that there were no realized practitioners. History is biased. The surviving records are all that we have. We have very little knowledge about what was actually happening at Enryakuji through the medieval period. To assume that the records we have give us an accurate, l...
by User 3495
Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:30 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

Apart from all doctrinal intricacies, how do you interpret the lack of highly accomplished practitioners at the time hongaku homon flourished? Why did esteemed Tendai masters not claim to be living Buddhas and why did they consider themselves ordinary beings, far from what Buddha Shakyamuni exclaime...
by User 3495
Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:04 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

(...) Chih-i taught that gampon-no-mumyō can oly be eliminated after reaching the last of the 52 Stages of Bodhisattva Practice. This sounds like there is a very fundamental difference between a Buddha and an ordinary being, which cannot be easily resolved by changing one's view of reality. Ignoran...
by User 3495
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:28 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

I suspect that these lofty theories were mostly used for attracting donors (just as conducting rituals for this-wordly benefits) and in the end they do not result in more fully enlightened Buddhas but in richer temples and support from aristocratic families. I am referring to kuden which gave rise ...
by User 3495
Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:25 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

Thank you very much for your explanation! I get the ontological point of view. Since, as Buddhists, we are not only interested in philosophical concepts, what makes this approach different from more classical Buddhist thought in everyday practice and real attainments? I see that even when seeing the...
by User 3495
Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:09 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

Hongaku is basically Tathagatagarbha/Buddha Nature teachings. OP probably would get more insight on notions of awakening from looking at Zhiyi's Threefold Buddhanature teachings before looking at ichinen sanzen. I read the following article on the Threefold Buddhanature: 'T'ien-t'ai Chih-i's Concep...
by User 3495
Sun Aug 08, 2021 3:37 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

.... so far I didnt hear any opposing views from within Tendai. Where have you been looking? I mostly looked at academic texts about the subject because there are few translations of Tendai texts available in English. The mainstream seems to have accepted Hongaku Homon, and it seems like this is st...
by User 3495
Sun Aug 08, 2021 3:25 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

According to the Dictionary of Buddhism on the website nichirenlibrary.org ( https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/F/242 ), Chih-i taught that gampon-no-mumyō can oly be eliminated after reaching the last of the 52 Stages of Bodhisattva Practice. This sounds like there is a very fundamental...
by User 3495
Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:06 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

I am sorry for replying so late. I still do not really understand how Buddha Nature (the potential to become a Buddha) and already being Buddha without having to change is something completely different to me. I also do not understand how a Buddha can actually forget that he is Buddha. That sounds l...
by User 3495
Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:57 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Re: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

I read both the book and article a while ago, but I will read them again :) For me the ideas of loosing Buddhahood after experiencing it for a moment and being an enlightened Buddha but still having defilements is so very far from the teaching of the Buddha that its almost scandalous that hongaku th...
by User 3495
Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:14 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai
Replies: 68
Views: 31638

Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in Tendai

Hello, I rcently read about the concept of ichinen sanzen where in some moments Buddhahood is present in one's mind and in other times it is just there as a potentiality while other stages are dominant. I also vaguely remember there being a concept of stages with one stage being "verbal identit...
by User 3495
Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:11 pm
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Excuse the Questions of a Pure Land Newb...
Replies: 23
Views: 9324

Re: Excuse the Questions of a Pure Land Newb...

A big difference is the practice. Jodo Shu focuses on the daily and continuous recitation of the nenbutsu and in Jodo Shinshu the nenbutsu is recited occasionally during the day or even less. In Jodo Shu the most common form of the nenbutsu is "namu amida bu" while Jodo Shinshu members usu...
by User 3495
Fri Jun 25, 2021 3:42 am
Forum: Pure Land
Topic: Excuse the Questions of a Pure Land Newb...
Replies: 23
Views: 9324

Re: Excuse the Questions of a Pure Land Newb...

The book "The Promise of Amida Buddha" is a translation of many of Honen's letters. In my opinion it is even more suited for beginners on the path than the Senchakushu.
by User 3495
Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:57 am
Forum: Tendai
Topic: in the weeds here
Replies: 32
Views: 14830

Re: in the weeds here

:good:
by User 3495
Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:01 am
Forum: Nichiren Shoshu
Topic: Where can I find a Nichiren Shoshu Gohonzon online?
Replies: 6
Views: 4136

Re: Where can I find a Nichiren Shoshu Gohonzon online?

The Gohonzon is transcribed only by the High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu.
Does this mean, that the High Priest of Nichiren Shoshu is writing every new Gohonzon by hand? Or are new Gohonzons somehow copied from his written Gohonzon?
by User 3495
Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:43 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy
Replies: 22
Views: 11665

Re: The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy

Thank you for sharing this, FiveSkandhas. I have been struggling with the Tiantai/Tendai view of evil for a while now after reading the Mappo Tomyo Ki (http://web.mit.edu/stclair/www/mappo.html), which makes the point that in the age of mappo we have to see monks who don't keep the precepts as natio...
by User 3495
Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:33 pm
Forum: Tendai
Topic: The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy
Replies: 22
Views: 11665

Re: The Paradox of Evil in Tiantai Buddhist Philosophy

This is the article FiveSkandhas is referring to

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