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1. Incense gāthā 2. Mahākaruṇācittadhāraṇī 3. Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya 4. Tathāgatāyuṣpramāṇaparivarta 5. Triple gem refuge 6. Homage to the 13 Buddhas I consider this my own personal "layperson's redaction" of the monastic morning service, combined with chanting I picked up while flirting wit...

Intersecting with "liberating all beings" is an interesting little Nirdeśa called the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta, or 佛説不増不減經. It is cited in the Ratnagotravibhāga. There is a paper with a translation of it by Jonathan Silk called Buddhist Cosmic Unity floating around the Internet. It...

I can agree with that. I can also see the other side's logic, even if I don't agree with it and think that the conclusion is flawed. There's more issues than that though, as I see it. By his logic voiced elsewhere that I can find in a bit, a Bodhisattva becoming a Bhūmika would be like a Śrāvaka str...

It's the link from earlier. It's poorly formatted, not being clearly integrated into my text well. I'm on my phone, so hyperlinks are a bit dodgy. Look on page 1, the fourth post from me. There's a hyperlink there. I had thought I had read you two disagreeing over it, but likely it was something els...

This idea of three gotras is provisional. To be fair, they say that the doctrine of the rousing is provisional. I believe in the rousing myself, it's in the Lotus Sūtra and the Prajñā Treatise, but there are plenty that don't. Furthermore, we are talking about Buddhahood in two different ways with ...

Not necessarily. Plenty of Buddhists don't believe in it and agree with Ven Hùifēng and believe that "Arhat = game over." For these, it is necessary that Arhats be a variety of Buddha, much like Aryabodhisattvas are a variety of Buddha and Pratyekabuddhas are a variety of Buddha. This ide...

Not necessarily. Plenty of Buddhists don't believe in it and agree with Ven Hùifēng and believe that "Arhat = game over." For these, it is necessary that Arhats be a variety of Buddha, much like Aryabodhisattvas are a variety of Buddha and Pratyekabuddhas are a variety of Buddha. If Arhats...

As you can see from here, the term isn't anything but of commentarial value. https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=677 I don't see this comment as particularly relevant. The commentaries contain much of the Dharma, and the speech of the Buddhas are not limited to a small selection of magical ...

This is incorrect. I do not expect you to be familiar with terminologies for "Arhats" from foreign sects that you've not studied though. Likely there is no such term in your tradition, so you've mistakenly stated that such a term does not exist. Oh I am familiar enough with the term as us...

Even then, Mahāyāna nonabiding nirvana can encompass the display of parnirvana. Yes, but the skandha-parinirvāṇa does not actually occur at the apparent end of life of an Āryabodhisattva. They aren't Śrāvakabuddhas. The display is just a display. Kleśa-parinirvāṇa occurs arguably far before the sta...

Delaying Buddhahood is not part of the bodhisattva path. This is something that Mahāyānikas often end up explaining exhaustively to their critics. It is Parinirvāṇa that is delayed, not Bodhi. Even then, Mahāyāna nonabiding nirvana can encompass the display of parnirvana. Yes, but the skandha-parin...

Delaying Buddhahood is not part of the bodhisattva path. This is something that Mahāyānikas often end up explaining exhaustively to their critics. It is Parinirvāṇa that is delayed, not Bodhi. Bodhisattvas who manifest as delaying Buddhahood (shepherd-like bodhisattva) are usually doing so because ...

It seems like the Daishōnin traces "sa = ṣaṭ" to the Wisdom Treatise (Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa or Dà zhìdù lùn), not directly to Tendai Daishi, interestingly enough. Incidentally, I found a mistake in my own writing. I had thought that saddharma was sa+dharma. Apparently "sat" is...

I'm pretty sure he uses a pun on "sa" and "ṣaṭ." When the prefix "sa" is in front of "dharma," it causes the D to geminate (i.e. become longer). So we get "saddharma." The "sad" in saddharma sounds like "ṣaṭ." From this wordplay, ...

What is Sa skya Paṇḍita's understanding of what "the third turning" is? The tantras or another particular class of sūtra?

On terms of the "five periods" of Tiantai, are there Tiantai sources that try to fit every single sutra then-known into these five periods? The periods, in the literature I'm familiar with, are occasionally only vaguely defined. For instance, which particular sutras constitute the "va...

Possibly. It strikes me as odd that there isn't a Mahāyāna "life of the Buddha" text, or several, that outline the supposed chronology of the sūtras to the śrāvakas and the bodhisattvas.

When, according to traditional sources, were these sūtras delivered and in what order? The Amitāyurdhyānasūtra, for instance, places itself just before Ajatasatru's war with the Vajjis, but when precisely is the sūtra taught according to traditional chronologies?

You could, for example, think that Vatican doesn't trust the scientists, how they are using their telescopes, and they want to find out what they themselves are able to see with it. This is very unlikely. There is a Vatican observatory that is owned and operated by them. They can look through the t...

"Western" aether is luminiferous. Indian "aether" is more to do with the supposed transmission of sound than light.