RELIGST 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pratyekabuddha, Lotus Sutra, Heart Sutra
18 Apr 2017
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Mahayana doctrinal developments and the spread of buddhism to east asia. The big developments, 500 bce - 0: origins (the buddha biography, jatakas, support and growth (numbers and geography, systematization and sectarianism (the canon, the councils and the 18 schools) Mahayana doctrinal developments: the lifespan of the buddha, skillful means (upaya kaysalya, the single path to enlightenment, the three bodies of the buddha, the lifespan of the buddha. And yet, o good men, since in fact i achieved buddhahood it has been incalculable, limitless hundreds of thousands of myriads of millions of nayutas of kalpas. Yet even now, though in reality i am not to pass into extinction, yet i proclaim that i am about to accept extinction. By resort to these expedient devices the thus come one teaches and converts the beings. : skillful means (upaya kaysalya) The dharma is not a thing that discursive or discriminatory reasoning reasoning can understand.
