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The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
Now we have to observe the condition of the country when Zen ...

Scripture Is No More Than Waste Paper
Zen is not based on any particular sutra, either of Mahaya...

Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He i...

How To Worship Buddha
The author of Vimalakirtti-nirdeca-sutra well explains our at...

The Disciples Under The Sixth Patriarch
Some time after this the Sixth Patriarch settled himself down...

The Introduction Of The So-to School Of Zen
This school was started by Tsing-Yuen (Sei-gen), an emine...

Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
The doctrine of Transience was the first entrance gate of Hin...

The First Step In The Mental Training
Some of the old Zen masters are said to have attained to supr...

All The Worlds In Ten Directions Are Buddha's Holy Land
We are to resume this problem in the following chapter. Suff...

Buddha The Universal Life
Zen conceives Buddha as a Being, who moves, stirs, inspires, ...

Enlightenment Implies An Insight Into The Nature Of Self
We cannot pass over, however, this weighty problem without sa...

A Sutra Equal In Size To The Whole World
The holy writ that Zen masters admire is not one of parchment...

The Irrationality Of The Belief Of Immortality
Occidental minds believe in a mysterious entity under the nam...

Enlightenment Is Beyond Description And Analysis
In the foregoing chapters we have had several occasions to re...

Epicureanism And Life
There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mir...

Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
The glorious sun of Buddha-nature shines in the zenith of Enl...

Enlightened Consciousness
In addition to these considerations, which mainly depend on i...

The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Tao Sin transmitted the Law to Hung Jan (Ko-nin), who being e...

The Second And The Third Patriarchs
After the death of the First Patriarch, in A.D. 528, Hwui Ko ...

Nature Favours Nothing In Particular
There is another point of view of life, which gave the presen...

The Ancient Buddhist Pantheon

The ancient Buddhist pantheon was full of deities or Buddhas,
3,000 in number, or rather countless, and also of
Bodhisattvas no less than Buddhas. Nowadays, however, in every
church of Mahayanism one Buddha or another together with some
Bodhisattvas reigns supreme as the sole object of worship, while
other supernatural beings sink in oblivion. These Enlightened
Beings, regardless of their positions in the pantheon, were generally
regarded as persons who in their past lives cultivated virtues,
underwent austerities, and various sorts of penance, and at length
attained to a complete Enlightenment, by virtue of which they secured
not only peace and eternal bliss, but acquired divers supernatural
powers, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, all-knowledge, and what
not. Therefore, it is natural that some Mahayanists came to
believe that, if they should go through the same course of discipline
and study, they could attain to the same Enlightenment and Bliss, or
the same Buddhahood, while other Mahayanists came to believe
in the doctrine that the believer is saved and led up to the eternal
state of bliss, without undergoing these hard disciplines, by the
power of a Buddha known as having boundless mercy and fathomless
wisdom whom he invokes.

Trikalpa-trisahasra-buddhanrama-sutra gives the names of
3,000 Buddhas, and Buddhabhisita-buddhanama-sutra enumerates Buddhas
and Bodhisattvas 11,093 in number. See Nanjo's Catalogue, Nos. 404,
405, 406, 407.

Those who believe in the doctrine of Holy Path. See 'A
History of the Twelve Japanese Buddhist Sects,' pp. 109-111.

Those who believe in the doctrine of the Pure Land.

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