var q buddhaindailylifepdffreeIn Buddhism, buddhahood Sanskrit buddhatva, Pali buddhatta or buddhabhva is the condition or rank of a buddha awakened one. The goal of Mahayanas bodhisattva. How to Enjoy Life. Enjoying life is often thought to be a mindset, the result of reflection, action and gratitude. And while most of us lack sufficient free time to. Books published by The Divine Life Society are being made available for free on the Internet in PDF and HTML formats. Religious belief relies, to varying levels, on faith, acceptance of dogma and doctrine without expectation of experiential verification that what is being taught has. Buddhahood Wikipedia. In Buddhism, buddhahood Sanskrit buddhatva, Pali buddhatta or buddhabhva is the condition or rank of a buddha awakened one. 1The goal of Mahayanas bodhisattva path is Samyaksambuddhahood, so that one may benefit all sentient beings by teaching them the path of cessation of dukkha. 2 Mahayana theory contrasts this with the goal of the Hinayana path, where the goal is individual arhatship. 2Explanation of the term BuddhaeditIn Theravada. Buddhism, Buddha refers to one who has become awakened through their own efforts and insight, without a teacher to point out the dharma Sanskrit Pali dhamma right way of living. A samyaksambuddha teaches the dharma to others after his awakening. A pratyekabuddha also reaches Nirvana through his own efforts, but does not teach the dharma to others. An arhat needs to follow the teaching of a Buddha to attain Nirvana, but can also preach the dharma after attaining Nirvana. 3 In one instance the term buddha is also used in Theravada to refer to all who attain Nirvana, using the term Svakabuddha to designate an arhat, someone who depends on the teachings of a Buddha to attain Nirvana. 4 In this broader sense it is equivalent to the arhat. Buddhahood is the state of an enlightened being, who having found the path of cessation of suffering,5 is in the state of No more Learning. 678There is a broad spectrum of opinion on the universality and method of attainment of Buddhahood, depending on Gautama Buddhas teachings that a school of Buddhism emphasizes. The level to which this manifestation requires ascetic practices varies from none at all to an absolute requirement, dependent on doctrine. Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the bodhisattva ideal instead of the Arhat. The Tathagatagarba and Buddha nature doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism consider Buddhahood to be a universal and innate property of absolute wisdom. This wisdom is revealed in a persons current lifetime through Buddhist practice, without any specific relinquishment of pleasures or earthly desires. Buddhists do not consider Gautama to have been the only Buddha. The Pli Canon refers to many previous ones see list of the named Buddhas, while the Mahayana tradition additionally has many Buddhas of celestial origin see Amitbha or Vairocana as examples, for lists of many thousands of Buddha names see Taish Tripiaka numbers 4. Nature of the BuddhaeditThe various Buddhist schools hold some varying interpretations on the nature of Buddha see below. Spiritual realizationseditAll Buddhist traditions hold that a Buddha is fully awakened and has completely purified his mind of the three poisons of craving, aversion and ignorance. A Buddha is no longer bound by sasra, and has ended the suffering which unawakened people experience in life. Most schools of Buddhism have also held that the Buddha was omniscient. However, the early texts contain explicit repudiations of making this claim of the Buddha. 91. Ten characteristics of a BuddhaeditSome Buddhists meditate on or contemplate the Buddha as having ten characteristics Ch. Jp. These characteristics are frequently mentioned in the Pli Canon as well as Mahayana teachings, and are chanted daily in many Buddhist monasteries Thus gone, thus come Skt tathgataWorthy one Skt arhatPerfectly self enlightened Skt samyak sabuddhaPerfected in knowledge and conduct Skt vidy caraa sapanna Well gone Skt sugataKnower of the world Skt lokavidaUnsurpassed Skt anuttaraLeader of persons to be tamed Skt purua damya srathiTeacher of the gods and humans Skt sta deva manuyaThe Blessed One or fortunate one Skt bhagavat1. The tenth epithet is sometimes listed as The World Honored Enlightened One Skt. Buddha Lokanatha or The Blessed Enlightened One Skt. Buddha Bhagavan. 1. Buddha as a supreme humaneditIn the Pli Canon, Gautama Buddha is known as being a teacher of the gods and humans, superior to both the gods and humans in the sense of having nirvana or the greatest bliss, whereas the devas, or gods, are still subject to anger, fear and sorrow. citation neededIn the Madhupindika Sutta MN 1. Buddha is described in powerful terms as the Lord of the Dhamma Pali Dhammasami, skt. Dharma Swami and the bestower of immortality Pali Amatassadata. Similarly, in the Anuradha Sutta SN 4. Buddha is described asthe Tathagatathe supreme man, the superlative man, attainer of the superlative attainment. Buddha is asked about what happens to the Tathagatha after death of the physical body. Buddha replies,And so, Anuradhawhen you cant pin down the Tathagata as a truth or reality even in the present lifeis it proper for you to declare, Friends, the Tathagatathe supreme man, the superlative man, attainer of the superlative attainmentbeing described, is described otherwise than with these four positions The Tathagata exists after death, does not exist after death, both does does not exist after death, neither exists nor does not exist after death In the Vakkali Sutta SN 2. Buddha identifies himself with the Dhamma 1. O Vakkali, whoever sees the Dhamma, sees me the BuddhaAnother reference from the Aggaa Sutta of the Digha Nikaya, says to his disciple Vasettha O Vasettha The Word of Dhammakaya is indeed the name of the Tathagata. Shravasti Dhammika, a Theravada monk, writes In the centuries after his final Nibbna it sometimes got to the stage that the legends and myths obscured the very real human being behind them and the Buddha came to be looked upon as a god. Actually, the Buddha was a human being, not a mere human being as is sometimes said but a special class of human called a complete person mahparisa. Such complete persons are born no different from others and indeed they physically remain quite ordinary. 1. Sangharakshita also states that The first thing we have to understand and this is very important is that the Buddha is a human being. But a special kind of human being, in fact the highest kind, so far as we know. 1. Buddha as just a humaneditWhen asked whether he was a deva or a human, he replied that he had eliminated the deep rooted unconscious traits that would make him either one, and should instead be called a Buddha one who had grown up in the world but had now gone beyond it, as a lotus grows from the water but blossoms above it, unsoiled. 1. Andrew Skilton writes that the Buddha was never historically regarded by Buddhist traditions as being merely human 1. It is important to stress that, despite modern Theravada teachings to the contrary often a sop to skeptical Western pupils, he was never seen as being merely human. For instance, he is often described as having the thirty two major and eighty minor marks or signs of a mahpurua, superman the Buddha himself denied that he was either a man or a god and in the Mahparinibbna Sutta he states that he could live for an aeon were he asked to do so. However, Thch Nht Hnh, a Vietnamese. Buddhist monk in the Zen tradition, states that Buddha was not a god. He was a human being like you and me, and he suffered just as we do. 2. Jack Maguire writes that Buddha is inspirational based on his humanness.