If one get to pureland, and practice and learn to be Buddha, Boddhisattva there, then what?? Does one proceed to Nirvana, get out of six realm, or go back to earthly world and help people out? If wang sheng 往生 to pureland, and then no more coming back to worldly earth and help people out, isn't that kind of un-Mahayana?
Please enlighten me on this. I am such a newbie.
AMTF
Originally posted by Zenist69:If one get to pureland, and practice and learn to be Buddha, Boddhisattva there, then what?? Does one proceed to Nirvana, get out of six realm, or go back to earthly world and help people out? If wang sheng 往生 to pureland, and then no more coming back to worldly earth and help people out, isn't that kind of un-Mahayana?
Please enlighten me on this. I am such a newbie.
AMTF
The choice is all up to you. You can practice in Pureland till �动地�� before you come back to this earthly world or other worlds to spread the dharma.
I think I don't want to come back here if I can go to Pureland. I would rather spread the dharma and help as many people as possible in this very life.
depending on your 心�.
Vow 22
Provided I become a Buddha, the Bodhisattvas who come to be born in that country of mine are to be bound to that one birth only, then to become Buddha-elect (Ekajatipratibuddhas), with the exception of those who by their own free will remain in the stage of Bodhisattva-hood for the sake of delivering various beings, wearing the armour of vows to travel to all worlds, performing their Boddhisattva-duties and accumulating their stock of merit, who wish to serve the Buddhas of ten quarters, and convert the various beings in number like grains of sand of the River Ganges to the highest perfect knowledge, whose activities have surpassed the stage of ordinary beings, and who practise the universal virtue of Samantabhadra, otherwise may I not attain the enlightenment.
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btw, if we become Buddha already, it doesn't mean we stopped liberating sentient beings, and sit relaxing in a throne like a king and do nothing. that's incorrect and pretty hinayana thinking. Mahayana include bodhicitta.
like Buddha Shakyamuni is still helping sentient beings in other world system until Maitreya come to take over. then Buddha Shakyamuni go where? return to Dharmakaya. Dharmakaya then manifest out again.
Brahma Net Sutra states that it is Buddha Shakyamuni's 8000 times here already.
Same as Amitabha will be replace by Guan Yin, and later Guan Yin replace by Da Shi Zi. but Guan Yin was originally a Buddha.
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From the Nirmanakaya POV, Western PL, Amitabha, will also at one time parinirvana. then Avalokiteshvara will take over, and the Dharma World will not have Dharma Ending Age.
Avalokiteshvara will be called Pu Guang Gong De Shang Wang Ru Lai 普光功德山王如�(Unconditionate Light & Mountain of Great Merits Tathagata) and His land will be called Zhong Bao Pu Ji Zhuang Yen Tu 众�普集庄严世界 (Magnific Land of All Treasury & unconditionate Liberation). Later Mahasthamaprapta will take over as Shan Zhu Gong De Bao Wang Ru Lai 善�功德�王如� (Kind Dwelling Virtue Treasure King Tathagata). which will become more and more magnific.
it's exciting to see Avalokiteshvara's Pureland! :)
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