Buddha

The Basis for Valid Cognition of Not-Yet-Happenings (Continued)  We have been talking about the basis for an imputation phenomenon and the basis for a negation phenomenon in terms of the not-yet-happening of a karmic result of a karmic action. The mental continuum is the...

The 64 Good Qualities of a Buddha There are two types of good qualities enjoyed by all of the Buddhas. These are the 32 good qualities that come from partings and the 32 good qualities that ripen. That makes 64 good qualities mentioned here. These 32 qualities that are...

Examples of the physical, verbal and mental faculties of a Buddha that spontaneously exert an enlightening influence.

A list of the 12 enlightening deeds of the 1,000 supreme Nirmanakaya Buddhas who will come to our universe during this fortunate eon.

There are three divisions of Buddha’s enlightening speech, differentiated according to the dominating condition of their origin.

The explanations of the 80 exemplary features and their causes is according to Haribhadra’s “Clarifying the Meaning: A Commentary on (Maitreya’s) ‘Filigree of Realizations.’”

Only the omniscient awareness of a Buddha can cognize all the causal factors that affect which specific “presently-happening result” arises from a karmic tendency.

What does it mean that a Buddha does not mentally label anything with categories, but a Buddha does designate?

The different views among the Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the difference between arhats’ and Buddhas’ understanding of the lack of an impossible “soul” of persons and phenomena.

The Mahayana and Theravada presentation of the points on which the Buddha remained silent, since to answer them would only create confusion in the minds of questioners.