How Enlighten Was Buddha

[ratikala]

Please provide the reference.

there are so many refferences on this subject that it would be impossible to list and it is better that they are read in context .


theravada text .....
According to the Sutta Pitaka, the "ten moral courses of conduct" will disappear and people will follow the ten amoral concepts of theft, violence, murder, lying, evil speaking, adultery, abusive and idle talk, covetousness and ill will, wanton greed, and perverted lust resulting in skyrocketing poverty and the end of the worldly laws of true dharma.

mahayana text ....
The Mahāsaṃnipāta Sutra The meaning in English is the Sutra of the Great Assembly. The sutra was translated into Chinese by Dharmakṣema, beginning in the year 414. The sutra enumerates on the notion of the decline of the Dharma, or decline of the Buddha's teachings, dividing this into three eras, subdivided by 5 five-hundred periods of time:

• The Age of True Dharma
  • The period in which people's minds are fixed on and devoted to liberation/enlightenment
  • The period devoted to meditation
• The Age of Semblance Dharma
  • The period of devotion to reading and intoning [sutras]
  • The period of devotion to erecting stupa and temples
• The Age of Dharma Decline
  • The period where the true Dharma disappears and "devotion to strive and division"

The sutra also discusses the arising of the aspiration for Enlightenment, similar to the Dasabhumika Sutra and the Lotus Sutra.

quoted from dear wickipidia many links for you to follow here

you will find reference to the decline in dharma or the decline in the practitioners ability to understand and practice dharma in many texts througout all schools .

 

[Gjallarhorn]

The only problem is I can't seem to find a copy of the Sutra of the Great Assembly online to quote from...rather annoying.

 

[paarsurrey]

there are so many refferences on this subject that it would be impossible to list and it is better that they are read in context .


theravada text .....
According to the Sutta Pitaka, the "ten moral courses of conduct" will disappear and people will follow the ten amoral concepts of theft, violence, murder, lying, evil speaking, adultery, abusive and idle talk, covetousness and ill will, wanton greed, and perverted lust resulting in skyrocketing poverty and the end of the worldly laws of true dharma.

mahayana text ....
The Mahāsaṃnipāta Sutra The meaning in English is the Sutra of the Great Assembly. The sutra was translated into Chinese by Dharmakṣema, beginning in the year 414. The sutra enumerates on the notion of the decline of the Dharma, or decline of the Buddha's teachings, dividing this into three eras, subdivided by 5 five-hundred periods of time:

• The Age of True Dharma
  • The period in which people's minds are fixed on and devoted to liberation/enlightenment
  • The period devoted to meditation
• The Age of Semblance Dharma
  • The period of devotion to reading and intoning [sutras]
  • The period of devotion to erecting stupa and temples
• The Age of Dharma Decline
  • The period where the true Dharma disappears and "devotion to strive and division"

The sutra also discusses the arising of the aspiration for Enlightenment, similar to the Dasabhumika Sutra and the Lotus Sutra.

quoted from dear wickipidia many links for you to follow here

you will find reference to the decline in dharma or the decline in the practitioners ability to understand and practice dharma in many texts througout all schools .

I am very thankful to you.
Regards

 

[paarsurrey]

I understand that Buddha prophesied for a Bagwa Metteyya some 500 years after him to refresh his true teachings.

Any references for that.

I am a student of Buddha

 

[Gjallarhorn]

25. 'And in the time of the people with eighty thousand-year life-span,
there will arise in the world a Blessed Lord,
an Arahant fully-enlightened Buddha named Metteyya,
endowed with wisdom and conduct,
a Well-Farer, Knower of the worlds,
an incomparable Trainer of men to be tamed,
Teacher of gods and humans,
enlightened and blessed,
just as I am now.

He will thoroughly know by his own super-knowledge,
and proclaim, this universe with its devas and maras and Brahmas, its ascetics and Brahmins,
and this generation with its princes and people, just as I do now.
He will teach the Dhamma,
lovely in the beginning,
lovely in its middle, in the spirit and in the letter,
and proclaim, just as I do now, the holy life in its fullness and purity.
He will be attended by a company of thousands of monks,
just as I am attended by a company of hundreds.

BasicBuddhism.org | Chapter 10 The Lion's Roar on the Turning of the Wheel (Cakkavatti-Sihanada Sutta)

 

[paarsurrey]

'And in the time of the people with eighty thousand-year life-span,
there will arise in the world a Blessed Lord,
an Arahant fully-enlightened Buddha named Metteyya,

This might be another one; Bagwa Metteyya was to come some 500 years after him as I understand.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

This might be another one; Bagwa Metteyya was to come some 500 years after him as I understand.

I always thought he was supposed to come after 2500 years or so.


Not really important though, as everyone has the potential to become a Buddha at this very moment. No need to wait for a teacher to learn.

 

[paarsurrey]

I always thought he was supposed to come after 2500 years or so.

Your source for understanding that he will come 2500 years after Buddha? Please.

Thanks

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Your source for understanding that he will come 2500 years after Buddha? Please.

Thanks

I'll link a source (if there even is one) later. I just recall something about him coming in the age of Dharma decline, which is the fifth of the 500 year segments, making it roughly 2000 to 2500 years after Buddha.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

I'll link a source (if there even is one) later. I just recall something about him coming in the age of Dharma decline, which is the fifth of the 500 year segments, making it roughly 2000 to 2500 years after Buddha.

Or her.

She can appear as a Buddha.

 

[idav]

Or her.

She can appear as a Buddha.

A woman Buddha? Is this some sort of joke?

 

[paarsurrey]

I'll link a source (if there even is one) later. I just recall something about him coming in the age of Dharma decline, which is the fifth of the 500 year segments, making it roughly 2000 to 2500 years after Buddha.

Didn't teachings of Buddha decline 500 years after him? Were these as fresh as with Buddha himself?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Or her.

She can appear as a Buddha.

Don't blame me! Blame the people who wrote the scriptures!
Personally, I welcome our female Buddha overlord.

Didn't teachings of Buddha decline 500 years after him? Were these as fresh as with Buddha himself?

Declined yes, but Maitreya isn't supposed to show up until all knowledge of the original teachings had vanished...

DharmaFlower.Net - Buddhas - Maitreya

Well, there's another prophecy.

Buddha Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, also known as the Laughing Buddha, is the one to follow up the historical Buddha Sakyamuni. He waits in the Tusita heaven for the moment he is to appear on earth as the Buddha of the fifth world cycle.

The Lord replied: 'At that time, the ocean will lose much of its water, and there will be much less of it than now. In consequence a world-ruler will have no difficulties in passing across it. India, this island of Jambu, will be quite flat everywhere, it will measure ten thousand leagues, and all men will have the privilege of living on it. It will have innumerable inhabitants, who will commit no crimes or evil deeds, but will take pleasure in doing good. The soil will then be free from thorns, even, and covered with a fresh green growth of grass; when one jumps on it, it gives way, and becomes soft like the leaves of the cotton tree. It has a delicious scent, and tasty rice grows on it, without any work. Rich silken, and other fabrics of various colours shoot forth from the trees. The trees will bear
leaves, flowers and fruits simultaneously; they are as high as the voice can reach and they last for eight myriads of years. Human beings are then without any blemishes, moral offences are unknown among them, and they are full of zest and joy. Their bodies are very large and their skin has a fine hue. Their strength is quite extraordinary. Three kinds of illness only are known -- people must relieve their bowels, they must eat, they must get old. Only when five hundred years old do the women marry.



The city of Ketumati will at that time be the capital. In it will reside the world-ruler, Shankha by name, who will rule over the earth up to the confines of the ocean; and he will make the Dharma prevail. He will be a great hero, raised to his station by the force of hundreds of meritorious deeds. His spiritual advisor will be a Brahmin, Subrahmana by name, a very learned man, well versed in the four Vedas, and steeped in all the lore of the Brahmins. And that Brahmin will have a wife, called Brahmavati, beautiful, attractive, handsome, and renowned.



Maitreya, the best of men, will then leave the Tu****a heavens, and go for his last rebirth into the womb of that woman.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

A woman Buddha? Is this some sort of joke?

LOL too cute.

 

[ratikala]

I understand that Buddha prophesied for a Bagwa Metteyya some 500 years after him to refresh his true teachings.

Any references for that.
I am a student of Buddha

I am only aware that the refference refers to 2500 years ,

The Mahāsaṃnipāta Sutra The meaning in English is the Sutra of the Great Assembly. The sutra was translated into Chinese by Dharmakṣema, beginning in the year 414. The sutra enumerates on the notion of the decline of the Dharma, or decline of the Buddha's teachings, dividing this into three eras, subdivided by 5 five-hundred periods of time:

• The Age of True Dharma
  • The period in which people's minds are fixed on and devoted to liberation/enlightenment
  • The period devoted to meditation
• The Age of Semblance Dharma
  • The period of devotion to reading and intoning [sutras]
  • The period of devotion to erecting stupa and temples
• The Age of Dharma Decline
  • The period where the true Dharma disappears and "devotion to strive and division"

three eras subdevided by 500 year periods of time ......here you see five sub divisions , timesed by 500 years each equals 2500 years

 

[ratikala]

The only problem is I can't seem to find a copy of the Sutra of the Great Assembly online to quote from...rather annoying.

try looking it up as Mahāsaṃnipāta Sutra , I think I found it on line ?