What is Mahayana Buddhism? What is Mahayana Buddhism?

In the time of the Buddha, there was no distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana teachings, and the Dharma was the same, but because the object of the Dharma was different, the content and realm of the Dharma were also different.

The Buddha said to the audience with shallow roots, the fundamental principle of being a human being, holding the five precepts, and cultivating the ten virtues, which is called the human heavenly vehicle; For people with a strong sense of misanthropy, it is said that the method of liberation from birth and death is called Hinayana of shravaka; For the listeners who have deep roots and a compassionate desire to reincarnate, it is the Bodhisattva Mahayana.

In fact, there are five vehicles of Buddhism: the human vehicle, the celestial vehicle, the shravaka vehicle, the enlightenment vehicle, and the bodhisattva vehicle. Cultivating the five precepts and ten virtues of the upper grade, the five precepts and ten virtues of the middle grade, the comprehensive five precepts and ten virtues, called the way of heaven; Shravaka is liberated from birth and death by listening to the Dharma and practicing, and Dujue is liberated from life and death without listening to the Dharma without being conscious, and the comprehensive sound and hearing is called the path of liberation; The bodhisattva path is a method that seeks the path of liberation without giving up human nature, so the bodhisattva path of Mahayana is a synthesis of the path of liberation and the path of human nature.

Those who only practice the five precepts and ten virtues in the way of human heaven are still ordinary people. Those who have attained liberation and are no longer subject to birth and death are saints, because they only care about their own liberation by the Dharma, and do not want to turn back to save other sentient beings, so they are called Hinayana people. The Bodhisattva seeks the supreme Buddha path and liberates himself from birth and death, and descends to transform immeasurable sentient beings from the sea of life and death, so it is called Mahayana.

In terms of the distribution of Buddhism, it is generally said that the Sanskrit Buddhism of the Northern Transmission is Mahayana Buddhism, which is centered on China and extends to Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. Pali Buddhism in the South Theravada Buddhism, centered in Ceylon and spread to Thailand, Burma, and other countries.

The statement of Mahayana Buddhism is actually inaccurate, strictly speaking, Mahayana Buddhism should actually be called Mahayana Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism is not long after Shakyamuni was not alive, some people according to the high-level principle that Shakyamuni said, that Buddhism is universal to all sentient beings, founded Mahayana Buddhism, this Mahayana Buddhism, about the Han Dynasty introduced to our China, since then it has been mainly inherited in the Han Dynasty, almost become the state religion of our China. This kind of Mahayana Buddhism, in fact, has been improved Buddhism, he and the Buddhism of the time of Sakyamuni has been different, because he has changed from the costume to the entire state of enlightenment and cultivation, primitive Buddhism only worships Shakyamuni Buddha as an ancestor, but Mahayana Buddhism wants to worship multiple Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and has become a belief in many Buddhas, while primitive Buddhism is only for Sakyamuni. Mahayana Buddhism is mainly relative to Hinayana Buddhism, in Southeast Asia, that the Dharma taught by Shakyamuni Buddha is for ordinary people to hear, for their own liberation, the achievement of the body of an arhat, this way of practice, we Han people call Hinayana Buddhism, of course, Southeast Asian Buddhism does not have such a statement, and will not admit that they practice Hinayana Buddhism, and they think that they inherited the original practice of the Shakyamuni era, and this is indeed the case, they are cultivated according to the cultivation methods of the Shakyamuni era, and there is not much change, This is different from Mahayana Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism is a great teaching. Awaken and clear, enlightened and empty, all beings have no self, I am all living beings and their enlightenment, what is Buddha, what is Dharma, what is Dharma. Awakening enlightenment, what is the enlightenment of the Dharma, what is the Dharma, this is not illegal, what is the extra-legal is not illegal, and there is no Amitabha Buddha Sutra, awakening and enlightenment.

Mahayana Buddhism: A classification of Buddhism.

"Mahayana is not profound, just like a big cart, carrying more food, medicine, quilts, clothes, shoes, socks, to the place where it is needed, and distributing it for free, this is called Mahayana. "Avalokiteshvara.

First of all, it doesn't matter what Mahayana and Hinayana are, Buddhism is one family. However, due to the different routes of transmission, they are divided into northern, southern, and Tibetan transmissions.

Theravada Buddhism is also called Theravada Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism insists on inheriting and preserving the original teachings of the Buddha, and does not advocate too much play and change in the teachings of the Buddha, so some people call it "fundamental Buddhism" or "primitive Buddhism" to distinguish it from the Buddhism that developed in the later period. Theravada Buddhism is different from the "Mahayana Buddhism" or "Northern Buddhism" that is currently spread in East Asian countries and regions such as China, Korea, and Japan.

According to Theravada Buddhism, the Buddha is not an ever-changing, responsive deity, nor is he an omnipresent and omnipotent savior. The Buddha was an enlightened person of wisdom and virtue, a teacher who taught the way to get rid of afflictions.

Everyone has their own understanding of the Dharma, but even if the understanding is wrong, it is difficult to correct their own views. The word "Dharma" is the center of the question, so it is necessary to have a deep understanding of it before we can have a correct understanding of "Mahayana Buddhism". For those who have not experienced the study of Buddhism, the so-called "Mahayana Buddhism" is the practice of doing things that benefit all sentient beings without climbing the fate without climbing the mind of selflessness and all for the sake of others, and finally attaining full enlightenment.

I hope that through this Q&A, you will be able to connect with the Dharma, because the Dharma does solve all the obstacles in our lives!

Amitabha.

Mahayana is the bodhisattva vehicle, and the name of the Mahayana is because its mind is generally generous to sentient beings, and yana means car, because the practice of this method can carry sentient beings from the pain of birth and death to the other side of nirvana.

The greatest characteristic of Mahayana is self-interest and altruism.

There is a book that says that Hinayana Buddhism is the same as the dress and precepts of Shakyamuni Buddha at that time, and Mahayana is because he feels that Hinayana cultivation is low, and he has reached the liberation of arhats. Mahayana hopes to universalize sentient beings and reach the bodhisattva realm and the Buddha realm. So he added a lot of precepts and scriptures in order to cultivate higher.

That is, Buddhism in China. In some parts of Southeast Asia, Hinayana is still used.

Your answer is as follows: Mahayana Dharma is Mahayana and Dharma:

Mahayana: It is said to dwell in Mahayana; In order to extinguish the self-testimony; Not taught by the teacher, just make a wish; It is easy to practice.

Dharma: The teachings of the Buddha, including the various teachings and the Buddhist truths expressed in the teachings. The volume of the Treatise on Enlightenment presents six synonyms for 'Dharma', which are called the Six Names of Dharma, namely:

1) Be good at saying and tell the truth. (2) Retribution, so that people can reap the fruits in this world. (3) At all times, do not wait for the stars to be auspicious and evil, but to cultivate at any time.

4) Be able to educate sentient beings to Bodhi with righteous deeds. (5) To taste, one should realize oneself. (6) The wise know themselves, and the wise can believe and understand.

Buddhism is also the teaching of Buddhism to guide sentient beings, that is, the method of coming out of the world; In this regard, the law of the land established by the kings of the world to rule over the people is called the 'royal law'. In the history of Buddhism in India and in China and Japan, the relationship between Buddhism and the royal Dharma varies from time to time and from place to place. There are those who use the king's law to resist the Dharma, and even destroy the Dharma, such as the famous three martial arts and one sect in the history of our country. In addition, the Dharma obtained by the Buddha, that is, the principle of dependent origination and the truth of the Dharma realm, etc.; and the Dharma known to the Buddha, that is, all the Dharma; and the various merits of the Buddha (the eighteen non-common laws), all of which are called Dharma.

Therefore, in a broad sense, the word 'Dharma' encompasses a very wide range of things, including the nature of all dharmas, all the subtle and good words of the world, and even other true and correct things. However, in a narrow sense, the Dharma generally refers to the teachings of the Buddha. [Miscellaneous Aham, Book II.]

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There is no specific method called Mahayana.

Whether it is Mahayana or not depends on the individual's motivation.

If a person practices the Mahayana Dharma, but is selfish and has no determination to benefit sentient beings, then no matter what Dharma he practices, he can only be classified as Hinayana Dharma.

Again, if a person practices the Hinayana Dharma, but his motivation is like the Jizo Bodhisattva, "all sentient beings have attained bodhi." Hell is not empty, and he will not become a Buddha", then he is considered Mahayana.

China's Han area is basically Mahayana, and there are many Hinayana in Thailand and Southeast Asia; Mahayana is to cross others, to cross oneself, and to cross sentient beings. Hinayana (in fact, the original name of the people is not called Hinayana) is OK just by crossing yourself.

1.Mahayana believes that people have Buddha nature, and that they can become Buddhas when they cultivate to a certain state, and that Buddhas should cross others and themselves and sentient beingsHinayana believes that people are human beings, and no matter how much they cultivate, they can't become Buddhas, and at most they can liberate themselves and become an arhat, and it is not easy to become an arhat, and people are not capable of crossing sentient beings at all, so they can only try to cross themselves.

3.There is one in the answer: delicious beef, it is inappropriate to classify selfishness and selfishness as Hinayana rudely, as long as the heart is good, Mahayana and Hinayana are only different theoretical starting points, and not crossing him is not equal to selfishness.

I know the big division. I am a sophomore in high school.

1. Buddhism is popularly called: Xiaocheng Buddhism and Dacheng Buddhism.

2 Generally, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Myanmar belong to Xiaocheng Buddhism, and Xiaocheng Buddhism is generally considered to be the original Buddhism that is relatively close to Shakyamuni.

3 Dacheng Buddhism is generally cultivated on the basis of Xiaocheng Buddhism, Han Buddhism belongs to Dacheng Buddhism, only Theravada Buddhism in Yunnan is Xiaocheng Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism belongs to Tantra.

4 In the final sense, there is no distinction between large and small successes, and the small and large achievements here are distinguished according to different schools and different books and methods of practice.

5 Both Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism are Dacheng Dharmas. The Dharma of Lesser Enlightenment specifically refers to the primitive Dharma, the attainment of the realm of arhats, and the attainment of Buddhahood. Dacheng Buddhism first saves oneself, and then saves others, all sentient beings, bodhisattvas.

In principle, Dacheng Buddhism is higher than Xiaocheng, because it has the ability to save others, but this is all the ultimate realm, as for what state that the monk has reached, it is his own cultivation.