Yanas are not Buddhist sects | Vividness
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Yanas are not Buddhist sects | Vividness
The different yanas contradict each other profoundly. They are not superficially and arbitrarily different. Their fundamental principles are different. They have different concepts of truth, and especially of ultimate truth. For Mahayana, emptiness is the ultimate truth and ultimate goal. It is a shock to be told that in Vajrayana, emptiness is mer... See more
Yana shock | Vividness
five dharmas: appearance, name, projection, correct knowledge, and suchness; the three modes of reality: imagined, dependent, and perfected; the eight forms of consciousness: one
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Unlike Hinayana Buddhists, who see nirvana as the final goal of practice, Mahayana Buddhists see it as a higher form of delusion still involving the dualities of subject and object, existence and nonexistence.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
Buddhism is pragmatic. It is a religion of methods , not of Truth. The methods are ways of approaching enlightenment.