01:840:112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Padmasambhava, Impermanence, Mahayana
8 Jan 2017
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Tibetan buddhism is also known as vajrayana - diamond vehicle , thunderbolt vehicle . Buddhahood - the attainment of buddhahood - same as nirvana - means to attain what the. The goal of tibetan buddhism is to obtain buddhahood in one lifetime. Offers a shortcut to obtain buddhahood easily in one lifetime, although many have to go through many lifetimes to reach it. Rebirth can happen through 6 possibilities of rebirth. 6 worlds where one can end up: heaven, titan world, animal world, hell (hot hell and cold hell, hungry ghosts, human world. Meditation on death is encouraged: inevitability of death, one never knows the time of death, should always be prepared, practices of tibetan buddhism help people at the time of death. Meditation on death will help lose the fear of death. Three times of death meditation: contemplation of the impermanence of everything, meditation of the decomposition of a corpse - dead body is reduced to bare bones.
