Timeline for Theravada and Mahayana - The Crucial Differences
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| Oct 26, 2019 at 18:41 | comment | added | user2512 | more or less what i meant @Mishu米殊 | |
| Oct 26, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | No, not two types of "Pratyekabuddha" realizing the same "truth", it's one type but two names, like a phone called mobile also portable. It's possible a would-be Pratyekabuddha did go to the Buddha's lecture in one or many of his past lives, but at the very life he has enlightenment, there must be no Buddha nor the teaching. And the only mean he got enlightened is by contemplating the 12 Nidanas, hence his is called Pratyekabuddha (緣覺佛); because he is self-awakened without a teacher, and doesn't teach, he is also called a Solitary Buddha (獨覺佛) | |
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| Oct 25, 2019 at 0:53 | comment | added | user2512 | i'll post up a reference later / tomorrow @Mishu米殊 | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 11:24 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | I don't quite get you ... dyt? You said "some claim pratyekabuddhas can be enlightened through the buddha's teaching" this is incorrect, from Mahayana view. Pratyeka must 1) be self-awakened and not learning from any Buddha; exist only when the 2) Samyaksaṃbuddha's teaching has completely disappeared from the world. Pratyeka and Samyaksam cannot co-exist in the same time frame of the same world-system | |
| Oct 24, 2019 at 5:36 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | The impression I got is that the Theravada view of a pratyekabuddhas is -- they discovered complete enlightenment, by and for themselves (not from another Buddha) -- cannot occur during another Buddha's sasana (e.g. cannot occur now while we're still in the sasana of Gautama Buddha) -- but is not a sama-sam-Buddha though, because, they don't (or can't or won't) teach others. | |
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 20:40 | comment | added | user2512 | is this answer ok dyt @Mishu米殊 i believe that that some claim pratyekabuddhas can be enlightened through the buddha's teaching but are nevertheless "solitary buddhas", neither teach the dharma nor really learn from it | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | Mishu 米殊 | It is vehicle. Or you may like to replace with "means". Like from Heathrow (samsara/ sentient) going to Oxford Street (nirvana/ buddha), you can take the tube (sravakayana, merely a passenger), the car (bodhisattva-yana, self-driving and carrying passengers), or motorcycle (pratyekabuddha-yana, riding by and with himself) | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 15:23 | comment | added | user2512 | yeah maybe @PeterJ depends who you ask -- but vehicle is the standard translation | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | user14119 | The article states - "Yana is determined by capacity and propensity of the "precious human body" wrought by merit, not by a specific teaching or lineage..." This seems correct to me. So for me these are not 'vehicles' but levels of attainnment or degrees of ambition. I haven't come across them as 'three vehicles' but perhaps they may be seen as such. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 15:05 | comment | added | user2512 | read this if you like @PeterJ it may seem like a small point, but the difference -- between Theravada and Mahayana -- surely does lie in which vehicle or yana is being followed | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 14:57 | comment | added | user2512 | no @PeterJ i mean the three vehicles of buddhahood, arthatship, and solitary enlightenment. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 14:55 | comment | added | user14119 | Do you mean 'Three Turnings'? | |
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| Oct 23, 2019 at 12:55 | history | answered | user2512 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |