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Anutpada
Anutpāda ( sa, अनुत्पाद) is a Buddhist concept for the absence of an origin. In Mahayana Buddhism, "anutpāda" is often symbolized by the letter A. Etymology "Anutpāda" means "having no origin", "not coming into existence", "not taking effect", "non-production". * "An" also means "not", or "non" * "Utpāda" means "genesis", "coming forth", "birth" Usage in Buddhist tradition The Buddhist tradition uses the term "anutpāda" for the absence of an origin or sunyata (voidness). ''Anutpāda'' means that ''dharmas'', the constituting elements of reality, do not come into existence. Atiśa: Chandrakirti, in his ''Yuktisastikavrrti'', states: According to Nakamura in his study of Advaita Vedanta, the Buddhist '' paramārtha'', "highest truth", is identified with ''anutpāda'' The term ''paramārtha'' is a synonym for tattva, tathata, sunyata, animitta, bhutakoti and dharmadhatu. One who understands sunyata, anutpada and dependent arising, has realized the ultim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bankei Yōtaku
was a Japanese Rinzai Zen master, and the abbot of the Ryōmon-ji and Nyohō-ji. He is best known for his talks on the '' Unborn'' as he called it. Biography Early years Bankei Yōtaku was born in 1622, in Harima Province to a samurai turned medicine man named Suga Dosetsu. His boyhood name was Muchi. Bankei's mother bore the last name of Noguchi, and little more is known of her, other than that the society of the time extolled her as 'Maya who begot three Buddhas,' - Maya being the mother of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni. Bankei had four brothers and four sisters. His eldest brother, Masayasu, was a skilled physician and his second eldest brother was a practitioner of the Pure Land school of Buddhism. Hence Bankei's mother was likened to Maya, Masayasu to Yakushi - the Buddha of healing, his second eldest brother to the Buddha Amida, and Bankei himself to Shakyamuni Buddha. Bankei was a rebellious and mischievous child, though he showed remarkable intelligence. When Bankei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahayana
''Mahāyāna'' (; "Great Vehicle") is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices. Mahāyāna Buddhism developed in India (c. 1st century BCE onwards) and is considered one of the three main existing branches of Buddhism (the other being ''Theravāda'' and Vajrayana).Harvey (2013), p. 189. Mahāyāna accepts the main scriptures and teachings of early Buddhism but also recognizes various doctrines and texts that are not accepted by Theravada Buddhism as original. These include the Mahāyāna Sūtras and their emphasis on the ''bodhisattva'' path and ''Prajñāpāramitā''. ''Vajrayāna'' or Mantra traditions are a subset of Mahāyāna, which make use of numerous tantric methods considered to be faster and more powerful at achieving Buddhahood by Vajrayānists. "Mahāyāna" also refers to the path of the bodhisattva striving to become a fully awakened Buddha (''samyaksaṃbuddha'') for the benefit of all sentient beings, and is thus als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A In Buddhism
Letter A in Siddham script The phoneme A (अ) is an important symbol and seed mantra in Mahayana Buddhism as well as in Vajrayana Buddhism.Robert E. Buswell and Donald S. Lopez (2014). ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', pp. 1, 24. Published by Princeton University Press In Mahayana A is the first vowel of the Sanskrit alphabet. Mahayana Buddhism invested the phoneme with mystical significance, associated with the doctrine of emptiness. In Sanskrit, when a is used as a prefix, it negates the meaning of a word. Thus, for example, ''svabhāva'', “with essence,” can be changed to ''asvabhāva'', “without essence.” The letter also came to signify the Mahayana teaching of Prajñāpāramitā (the Perfection of Wisdom). One of the Prajñāpāramitā sutras is the short ''The Perfection of Wisdom Mother in One Syllable'' (''ekākṣarīmātāprajñāpāramitā''). The sutra opens and closes like a regular Prajñāpār ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
