In Therawada We have 21,000 suttra. 42,000 Abhi Dhamma 21,000 Winaya. Toral 84,000 Dhamma Sections. The Basic Enlightenment of Therawada is Sothapanna then secondly Sakurdagami thirdly Anagami Finaly Arahath so there are four stages of Enlightenment. As a therewada buddhist I like your teachings and try to get something from Mahayana also thanks
🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏 Namo Sakyamuni Buddha 🙏 Namo Bhaisajya guru Buddha I take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha May all being be happy sadhu sadhu sadhu
Buddha’s teaching is , prefect & complete ..to understand & experience in this life -show the way how to live happily & peacefully without fear without any prayer of external forces, (respect visible /non visible being )Which any Religious Label, is not important, we clearly understand that we here to Love + Compassion towards the whole universe of all beings &to observes the Precepts, we are owner of Karma ( where we go after this life is depends on how we conduct in this life , here & now)🙏😃
Oh, it's OK that there are so many Buddhist schools. Every religion divides up into countless numbers of sects and schools. In Christianity there is Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism.
Thank you for the very well explanation.i would love to know more about mahayana teachings.im a Buddhist living in srilanka so as you have mentioned we have never heard about Amitabha buddha.as gautama buddha teachings there were 28 buddhas in this SAKWALA.the last one will be maithree which will become buddha in future.but as you said gautama buddha also mentioned other buddhas in universe too.so Amitabha buddha is from another planet?expecting you kind answer.would love to learn more.thanks.
Hello you can start by watching all my videos on Pure Land Buddhism 101 this is a good video about Amitabha Buddha ua-cam.com/video/8HMOVa54hFQ/v-deo.html 🙏Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏
In Mahayana Buddhism, how many Buddhas can be born in one age/epoch/aeon? I mean, this is the age of Historical Buddha Siddhartha Gotama! In Mahayana, are there more Buddhas besides Siddhartha?
There are 52 stages of enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism, so different concept from enlightenment in Theravada Buddhism See my video ua-cam.com/video/o8A7Vc0Mv9s/v-deo.html
Jiawen can I please ask you a question. So basically I’m Thai and Thai people usually practice Theravada BUDDHISM and I usually have to practice it with my family. Can I be both Theravada and a pure land Buddhist?
Namo Amitabha Buddha. What is the name Sutra/Book behind you? I also very thankful to you. because you explore many information and real stories about Pure Land Buddhism. Amituofo
So there's a full volume of the Avatamsaka Sutra in Chinese and also a big book on top (the purple one) which has all the five main Pure Land Sutras in Chinese 🙂🙏Amituofo
Sister, very well explained. However, the definition of an Arahat is one who has finished his/her training. Would you not the Buddha in this category? Svaha.
Hello in Mahayana Buddhism we say even this Arhat stage is not to be attached but should keep going on the Bodhisattva path and help others to be liberated and reach final Buddhahood (so different definition of what Buddha means between these different lineages). I will do a video about this to explain the different degrees of enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism 🙂🙏Amituofo
Buddhist philosophers in Sri Lanka Over time, it is difficult to find out how many philosophers have appeared on this earth among the dust of history. Due to the lack of systematic, academic Buddhist education in Sri Lanka, the average Buddhist daughter and son only knows the 'recipe of lies' taught by the Dharma school and the 'outdated' Buddhism given by the school. Because of this, a very ugly and impolite attitude that has stuck in the minds of many people is that there are no Buddhist philosophers in our country, only those who have been imported from India or Europe. So this post is about our Buddhist philosophers. 1. Upali Maharahta It is not known how many philosophers there were in the past, but the first one we find in written evidence is Upali Thero who worked in Anuradhapura in the first half of the 1st century. His ideologies have not yet been properly collected and reconciled. But how much they affected the Sangha society in Sri Lanka can be seen from the 5th century Buddhaghosa monk brought to Sri Lanka. One of the main responsibilities assigned to Buddhaghosa monk was to destroy the opinions of Arhant Upali. In other words, the monk authority of the Mahavihara has acted to use a monk imported from India to demolish the opinions presented by one of our own in our country. Reverend Upali was the historical figure who ruled on the 'Kulasanghatta' disciplinary charge which led to the separation of the Mahavihara and the Abhayagiri. The 500 people who came out of the Mahavihara that day did so because they respected Reverend Upali's views. There is not much information about Reverend Upali. He went to Mihinthalam, which was a great forest area at that time, and stayed there. 2. Monk Aryadeva He is the great philosopher of nihilism who brought entire India to its knees. The Mahavihara monks of our country were kind enough not to record a single word about him because he abandoned Theravada in Sri Lanka. If the Tibetan books had not indicated that he was from Ceylon and belonged to the Sinhalese royal family, we would have lost the right to his pride. Through nihilism, he introduced the Buddhist ritual tradition to the world. Even today, the whole world reads his works with great love. Chathushataka Shastra is the most important work among his works. He was in the late 1st century AD. 3. Reverend Ananda Monk Ananda was the poet who lived in Abhayagiri at the same time as Monk Aryadeva. Instead of describing the three things of Sheela, Samadhi and Pragna in a traditional way, he explored the knowledge of the Sinhalese that existed in Sri Lanka at that time and explained it in a brand new way. That work was called 'Vimutthimagga'. Vimutthimagga had a great impact on Sri Lanka. Because of this, the Mahavihara monks brought Buddhaghosa Theru and assigned them as the first duty to write a book against Vimutthimaggaya according to the Theravada tradition, dealing with the three points of Sheela, Samadhi and Prajna. It was 'Visuddhimaggaya'. Then he accepted the Visuddhimagga written by Indian monks and proceeded to destroy the Vimutthimagga written by our monks. Fortunately for us, Reverend Pahian took it to China and wrote it down in Chinese, and now it has been translated from Chinese to English. To know the true Sinhala knowledge of the past, it must be read. 4. Rev. Anuruddha Not much should be said about Anuruddha monk who lived in the 11th century. Everyone who has read the Abhidharmartha Sangha knows him well. As he followed the Theravada tradition, he was not lost in the pages of history. Then a long silence. No information about philosophers. Because the Mahavihara stood powerfully.
5. The monk of Vettave Monk Vettewe, whose name is not well known, was the first post-modernist to appear in Sri Lanka. He who lived in the Kotte era broke the existing literary norms and showed them. Changed the definitions. The result was that the village had to leave the country. In the Kotte era, Reverend Rahula has a special place in the framework of traditional criticism. The real revolutionary is Vetteve Thero. Now we find the modern phase. A large number of characters are found in the modern period and I will write down a few people who made a revolution. 6. Monk Buddhadatta of Polvatte He is the only scholar in recent times who has read the commentaries of the Theravada (commentaries written by ancient Yatis) up to Tika (commentaries written for easy reading of the aforementioned commentaries) Tippani (commentaries written by explaining the deep points of the commentaries arranged for easy reading). He was also the first scholar to point out various shortcomings of Theravada and criticize them. Most of the information I presented earlier was found in his works. 7. Monk Sri Prajnarama of Yakkadu He single-handedly attacked the literary ideologies in Peradeniya and Colombo at that time and was the wise man who clearly pointed out the shortcomings of the tradition as well as the correct parts. He showed the world the erudition of the Sinhalese of the past by revealing a number of previously unknown information about the Hela language. He was the pilot of modern monk politics who pointed out that monks should come forward in the face of social problems. 8. Monk Gnanasiha of Heinpitagedara Monk Gnanasiha was the first to say that the Paticchasamuppada commentary of the Theravadas was wrong. He pointed out that the Theravadas' interpretation of Chitta, Mana and Vijnana is wrong. 9. Reverend Rahula Walpola He is the one who has presented the most controversial views recently. Some of the opinions presented by him are as follows. Do not dry food in front of the Buddha statue. Feed those who have no food. Taking PARISHKARA (gifts for collecting merits) as sermons is like taking a price for sermons. Instead of leading people to religious pilgrimages, people should be led to intellectual conversations as much as possible. The fact that the Sanskrit 'Abhidhammasamuchchaya' was translated into French and given a description in French is a fact that is respected by everyone in the world even today. Philosophically, one of the main points of he's ideas is that Paticchasamuppadaya is a causal constant and it covers man's spontaneity, i.e. his ability to do whatever he wants. 10. Kulatissa Nanda Jayathilaka A direct disciple of Wittgenstein, Mr. Jayatilaka was a philosopher who brought Sri Lankan Buddhism to the world. He explained that Theravada is one, early Buddhism is another. Dissecting the opinion of Reverend Rahula, he pointed out that man's freedom of action is not blocked due to paticchasamuppada. In short, he was the one who rightly showed that Buddhism can be studied without commentaries. But he did not say that the commentary should be rejected. 11. David Jinadasa Kalupahana He was the one who convinced the world that Theravada should be studied without separating Buddhism from Mahayana. Having studied the Tripitaka in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese, he gave new interpretations to all the traditional concepts. Apart from Sri Lanka, Buddhism is practiced in every country in the world today, with Kalupahana as the starting point. It seems that characters such as Jayathilake and Kalupahana are coming out of Sri Lankan school education. Although a few of their names should be added to this list, their influence did not significantly contribute to changing the course of Buddhism.
Anatta is a central doctrine of Buddhism. It marks one of the major differences between Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. According to the anatta doctrine of Original Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman".Buddhism, from its earliest days, has denied the existence of the "self, soul" in its core philosophical and ontological texts. In its soteriological themes, Buddhism has defined nirvana as that blissful state when a person, amongst other things, realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
There's no eternal egoistic self, but if one studies later about the emptiness, the wisdom of Shunyata and in Mahayana sutras Buddha often talks about the eternal self-nature/Buddha nature. It's just As It Is. All language used by the Buddha is a way of convenience one must not attached to mere words. The doctrine of emptiness is also not contradicted to Anatta doctrine and the self is referring to different things in each of these. IT Simply Is. As it is.
In Therawada We have 21,000 suttra. 42,000 Abhi Dhamma 21,000 Winaya. Toral 84,000 Dhamma Sections. The Basic Enlightenment of Therawada is Sothapanna then secondly Sakurdagami thirdly Anagami Finaly Arahath so there are four stages of Enlightenment. As a therewada buddhist I like your teachings and try to get something from Mahayana also thanks
Theravada Buddhism is very correct really correct .👍✌️
Thank you for your teaching and sharing of Amitabha Buddha.
Thank you for this excellent explanation! Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Buddhaya 🙏
🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏 Namo Sakyamuni Buddha 🙏 Namo Bhaisajya guru Buddha
I take refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
May all being be happy sadhu sadhu sadhu
Thanks again for this video. A good summary I think. Namo Amitoufo 🙏🙏🙏
Buddha’s teaching is , prefect & complete ..to understand & experience in this life -show the way how to live happily & peacefully without fear without any prayer of external forces, (respect visible /non visible being )Which any Religious Label, is not important, we clearly understand that we here to Love + Compassion towards the whole universe of all beings &to observes the Precepts, we are owner of Karma ( where we go after this life is depends on how we conduct in this life , here & now)🙏😃
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Amituofo
Amidaphat Amitabha Buddha
Amidaphat
Oh, it's OK that there are so many Buddhist schools. Every religion divides up into countless numbers of sects and schools. In Christianity there is Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism.
christainity is blind faith
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Thank you. It was very well done and helpful.
nam mo a di da phat! Thank you very much!
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Amituofo.
Amidaphat
Thank you for the very well explanation.i would love to know more about mahayana teachings.im a Buddhist living in srilanka so as you have mentioned we have never heard about Amitabha buddha.as gautama buddha teachings there were 28 buddhas in this SAKWALA.the last one will be maithree which will become buddha in future.but as you said gautama buddha also mentioned other buddhas in universe too.so Amitabha buddha is from another planet?expecting you kind answer.would love to learn more.thanks.
Hello you can start by watching all my videos on Pure Land Buddhism 101 this is a good video about Amitabha Buddha ua-cam.com/video/8HMOVa54hFQ/v-deo.html
🙏Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Mahayana and Theravada cannot be compare because. Mahayana is yana but Theravada is just 1 volume out of 18 to 21 volume of sarbayana.
In Mahayana Buddhism, how many Buddhas can be born in one age/epoch/aeon? I mean, this is the age of Historical Buddha Siddhartha Gotama! In Mahayana, are there more Buddhas besides Siddhartha?
sri lankan practice theravada buddhism namo buddaya
Namo Amituofo 🙏
Is ENLIGHTENMENT & NIRWANA same?
There are 52 stages of enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism, so different concept from enlightenment in Theravada Buddhism
See my video
ua-cam.com/video/o8A7Vc0Mv9s/v-deo.html
@@PureLandBuddhism Thank you 🙏
Jiawen can I please ask you a question. So basically I’m Thai and Thai people usually practice Theravada BUDDHISM and I usually have to practice it with my family. Can I be both Theravada and a pure land Buddhist?
Hello yes you can, no conflicts :) Amituofo 🙏
Thank you so much! Amituofo
@@PureLandBuddhism Hahahaha! Why do you give more importance to the imaginary Buddha rather than to the Historical Gotama Buddha?
Namo Amitabha Buddha. What is the name Sutra/Book behind you?
I also very thankful to you. because you explore many information and real stories about Pure Land Buddhism. Amituofo
So there's a full volume of the Avatamsaka Sutra in Chinese and also a big book on top (the purple one) which has all the five main Pure Land Sutras in Chinese 🙂🙏Amituofo
Sister, very well explained. However, the definition of an Arahat is one who has finished his/her training. Would you not the Buddha in this category? Svaha.
Hello in Mahayana Buddhism we say even this Arhat stage is not to be attached but should keep going on the Bodhisattva path and help others to be liberated and reach final Buddhahood (so different definition of what Buddha means between these different lineages). I will do a video about this to explain the different degrees of enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism 🙂🙏Amituofo
Buddhist philosophers in Sri Lanka
Over time, it is difficult to find out how many philosophers have appeared on this earth among the dust of history. Due to the lack of systematic, academic Buddhist education in Sri Lanka, the average Buddhist daughter and son only knows the 'recipe of lies' taught by the Dharma school and the 'outdated' Buddhism given by the school. Because of this, a very ugly and impolite attitude that has stuck in the minds of many people is that there are no Buddhist philosophers in our country, only those who have been imported from India or Europe. So this post is about our Buddhist philosophers.
1. Upali Maharahta
It is not known how many philosophers there were in the past, but the first one we find in written evidence is Upali Thero who worked in Anuradhapura in the first half of the 1st century. His ideologies have not yet been properly collected and reconciled. But how much they affected the Sangha society in Sri Lanka can be seen from the 5th century Buddhaghosa monk brought to Sri Lanka. One of the main responsibilities assigned to Buddhaghosa monk was to destroy the opinions of Arhant Upali. In other words, the monk authority of the Mahavihara has acted to use a monk imported from India to demolish the opinions presented by one of our own in our country.
Reverend Upali was the historical figure who ruled on the 'Kulasanghatta' disciplinary charge which led to the separation of the Mahavihara and the Abhayagiri. The 500 people who came out of the Mahavihara that day did so because they respected Reverend Upali's views. There is not much information about Reverend Upali. He went to Mihinthalam, which was a great forest area at that time, and stayed there.
2. Monk Aryadeva
He is the great philosopher of nihilism who brought entire India to its knees. The Mahavihara monks of our country were kind enough not to record a single word about him because he abandoned Theravada in Sri Lanka. If the Tibetan books had not indicated that he was from Ceylon and belonged to the Sinhalese royal family, we would have lost the right to his pride. Through nihilism, he introduced the Buddhist ritual tradition to the world. Even today, the whole world reads his works with great love. Chathushataka Shastra is the most important work among his works. He was in the late 1st century AD.
3. Reverend Ananda
Monk Ananda was the poet who lived in Abhayagiri at the same time as Monk Aryadeva. Instead of describing the three things of Sheela, Samadhi and Pragna in a traditional way, he explored the knowledge of the Sinhalese that existed in Sri Lanka at that time and explained it in a brand new way. That work was called 'Vimutthimagga'. Vimutthimagga had a great impact on Sri Lanka. Because of this, the Mahavihara monks brought Buddhaghosa Theru and assigned them as the first duty to write a book against Vimutthimaggaya according to the Theravada tradition, dealing with the three points of Sheela, Samadhi and Prajna. It was 'Visuddhimaggaya'. Then he accepted the Visuddhimagga written by Indian monks and proceeded to destroy the Vimutthimagga written by our monks. Fortunately for us, Reverend Pahian took it to China and wrote it down in Chinese, and now it has been translated from Chinese to English. To know the true Sinhala knowledge of the past, it must be read.
4. Rev. Anuruddha
Not much should be said about Anuruddha monk who lived in the 11th century. Everyone who has read the Abhidharmartha Sangha knows him well. As he followed the Theravada tradition, he was not lost in the pages of history.
Then a long silence. No information about philosophers. Because the Mahavihara stood powerfully.
5. The monk of Vettave
Monk Vettewe, whose name is not well known, was the first post-modernist to appear in Sri Lanka. He who lived in the Kotte era broke the existing literary norms and showed them. Changed the definitions. The result was that the village had to leave the country. In the Kotte era, Reverend Rahula has a special place in the framework of traditional criticism. The real revolutionary is Vetteve Thero.
Now we find the modern phase. A large number of characters are found in the modern period and I will write down a few people who made a revolution.
6. Monk Buddhadatta of Polvatte
He is the only scholar in recent times who has read the commentaries of the Theravada (commentaries written by ancient Yatis) up to Tika (commentaries written for easy reading of the aforementioned commentaries) Tippani (commentaries written by explaining the deep points of the commentaries arranged for easy reading). He was also the first scholar to point out various shortcomings of Theravada and criticize them. Most of the information I presented earlier was found in his works.
7. Monk Sri Prajnarama of Yakkadu
He single-handedly attacked the literary ideologies in Peradeniya and Colombo at that time and was the wise man who clearly pointed out the shortcomings of the tradition as well as the correct parts. He showed the world the erudition of the Sinhalese of the past by revealing a number of previously unknown information about the Hela language. He was the pilot of modern monk politics who pointed out that monks should come forward in the face of social problems.
8. Monk Gnanasiha of Heinpitagedara
Monk Gnanasiha was the first to say that the Paticchasamuppada commentary of the Theravadas was wrong. He pointed out that the Theravadas' interpretation of Chitta, Mana and Vijnana is wrong.
9. Reverend Rahula Walpola
He is the one who has presented the most controversial views recently. Some of the opinions presented by him are as follows. Do not dry food in front of the Buddha statue. Feed those who have no food. Taking PARISHKARA (gifts for collecting merits) as sermons is like taking a price for sermons. Instead of leading people to religious pilgrimages, people should be led to intellectual conversations as much as possible.
The fact that the Sanskrit 'Abhidhammasamuchchaya' was translated into French and given a description in French is a fact that is respected by everyone in the world even today. Philosophically, one of the main points of he's ideas is that Paticchasamuppadaya is a causal constant and it covers man's spontaneity, i.e. his ability to do whatever he wants.
10. Kulatissa Nanda Jayathilaka
A direct disciple of Wittgenstein, Mr. Jayatilaka was a philosopher who brought Sri Lankan Buddhism to the world. He explained that Theravada is one, early Buddhism is another. Dissecting the opinion of Reverend Rahula, he pointed out that man's freedom of action is not blocked due to paticchasamuppada. In short, he was the one who rightly showed that Buddhism can be studied without commentaries. But he did not say that the commentary should be rejected.
11. David Jinadasa Kalupahana
He was the one who convinced the world that Theravada should be studied without separating Buddhism from Mahayana. Having studied the Tripitaka in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese, he gave new interpretations to all the traditional concepts. Apart from Sri Lanka, Buddhism is practiced in every country in the world today, with Kalupahana as the starting point. It seems that characters such as Jayathilake and Kalupahana are coming out of Sri Lankan school education.
Although a few of their names should be added to this list, their influence did not significantly contribute to changing the course of Buddhism.
Anatta is a central doctrine of Buddhism. It marks one of the major differences between Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. According to the anatta doctrine of Original Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman".Buddhism, from its earliest days, has denied the existence of the "self, soul" in its core philosophical and ontological texts. In its soteriological themes, Buddhism has defined nirvana as that blissful state when a person, amongst other things, realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
There's no eternal egoistic self, but if one studies later about the emptiness, the wisdom of Shunyata and in Mahayana sutras Buddha often talks about the eternal self-nature/Buddha nature. It's just As It Is. All language used by the Buddha is a way of convenience one must not attached to mere words. The doctrine of emptiness is also not contradicted to Anatta doctrine and the self is referring to different things in each of these. IT Simply Is. As it is.
Mam are you from japan
Chinese Amituofo 🙏
Amituofo
Is ENLIGHTENMENT & NIRWANA same?
Amituofo, you can refer to this video: ua-cam.com/video/o8A7Vc0Mv9s/v-deo.html