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	Tathagata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These Bodhisattvas are Tathāgatas, but they are not yet able to demonstrate as Buddhas (because the wheel of Dharma is already turned), and will have to wait until a suitable time and place occurs before they can manifest as Buddhas.
		Tathagata as thus-gone implies that the Buddha was a pioneer and the task of the practitioner or devotee is to follow and imitate and, ultimately, achieve what Buddha achieved.
		Tathagata as come-from-thusness, (Japanese: Nyorai) on the other hand, implies that the Buddha came to save us and give us refuge and that what is required of the practitioner is faith and devotion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tathagata (421 words)

	The Bodhisattva's Confession of Moral Downfalls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the Tathagata who is the Leader of the Warriors, I bow down.
		To the Tathagata who is the Celestial Being of the Celestial Waters, I bow down.
		To the Tathagata who is the Son of the Desireless One, I bow down.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Gulf/5598/3heaps.html (845 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: The Lotus Sutra: The True Nature of the Buddha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the conviction that the Tathagata is always at hand they would not exert their vigor for the purpose of escaping from the triple world, and they would not conceive of the Tathagata as hard to obtain.
		Hence the Tathagata, in his skill in means,.has uttered to those beings the saying that ''Rarely O monks, do Tathagatas appear in the world." Because during many hundreds of thousands of Nayutas of Kotis of aeons those beings may have the sight of a Tathagata, or they may not.
		And that is a discourse on Dharma by the Tathagata himself..
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/lotus0.html (410 words)

	Tathagata
		Tathagata is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Tathagata: Name used by Buddha Gautama to refer to himself, meaning "thus come." Some authors feel this is a sign of his enlightened state.
		Tathagata: Literally, "thus gone," an honorary title used by Buddha in reference to himself, perhaps indicating that he has "gone before" others on the path of enlightenment.
	www.experiencefestival.com /tathagata (949 words)

	The Essence of Buddhahood, Part Two
		Thusness defiled (the embryo of the Tathagata) is the Tathagata-garbha, and Thusness undefiled is Enlightenment (dharmakaya)." (14)
		According to the Tathagata, phenomenal activity is a representation of one's own mind that underscores the deceptive nature of all one's perceptions and judgments.
		In the Lankavatara Sutra, however, the Tathagata carefully establishes that his teachings do not in any way contravene the Buddhist doctrine of Anatman, which is the denial of the reality of a Self independent of causes and conditions.
	www.borobudur.tv /lanka_02.htm (4216 words)

	The Diamond Sutra - Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra
		Subhuti, as you have said, the tathagata is skillfully mindful of the bodhisattvas, and skillful in entrusting to the bodhisattvas.
		The Tathagata has said that the perfect form of his body is not a perfect form of body.
		The Tathagata has said that the appearance of a single conglomeration is not the appearance of a single conglomeration.
	www.reluctant-messenger.com /diamond_sutra.htm (5572 words)

	MAHAYANA SUTRA OF THE THREE SUPERIOR HEAPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the Tathagata Meaningful to Behold I prostrate.
		O All you [Tathagatas] and all the others, however many Tathagatas, the Foe Destroyers, the Completely Perfect Buddhas, the Blessed Ones there are dwelling and abiding in all the worldly realms of the ten directions, all you Buddhas, the Blessed Ones, please listen to me.
		In this life and in all my lives since beginningless time, in all my places of rebirth while wandering in samsara, I have done negative actions, have ordered them to be done, and have rejoiced in their being done.
	thor.prohosting.com /~eslovick/3heaps.html (591 words)

	Diamond Wisdom Transcendence Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Are there sayings of Tathagata that are teachings?" Subhuti said, "According to my understanding of the meaning of what the Buddha said, there is neither a definite thing named as 'the unsurpassable right and full enlightenment', nor definite teachings that Tathagata could say.
		Tathagata says, 'All forms are not forms in themselves,' also says, 'All sentient beings are not sentient beings in themselves.' Subhuti, Tathagata is one that speaks the truth, one that says the substance, one that is as spoken, one that does not lie, and one that does not change his sayings.
		Tathagata says it for those that have raised aspiration toward the Mahayana, and for those that have raised aspiration toward the most superior vehicle.
	www.yogichen.org /efiles/b052.html (3835 words)

	diamond.html
		Subhuti, the Tathagata teaches likewise that the perfection of Patience is not the perfection of Patience: such is merely a name.
		No, World-honored One, the Tathagata cannot be perceived by His perfectly-formed body, because the Tathagata teaches that a perfectly-formed body is not really such; it is merely called "a perfectly formed body".
		Also, World-honored One, when the Tathagata speaks of galaxies of worlds these are not worlds; for if reality could be predicted of a world it would be a self-existent cosmos and the Tathagata teaches that there is really no such thing.
	web.mit.edu /stclair/www/diamond.html (4617 words)

	Sukhavativyuha Sutra
		But if the Tathagatas should describe them fully, even in a length of life that should last for a hundred thousand nayutas of kotis of kalpas, yet the end of the virtues of those good people would not be reached, and yet there would be no failure of the self-confidence of the Tathagata.
		And that Bhagavat Amitabha, the Tathagata, holy and fully enlightened, overshadowing that mass of Sravakas and that mass of Bodhisattvas, is seen, illuminating all quarters.
		From the place of the Tathagata Vaisaradyaprapta, sixty-nine kotis of Bodhisattvas will be born in the world Sukhavati, in order to see the Tathagata Amitabha, to bow before him, to worship him, to ask questions of him, and to consult him.
	web.mit.edu /stclair/www/larger.html (10699 words)

	DN 16: Maha-parinibbana Sutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Tathagata, worthy and rightly self-awakened, is worthy of a burial mound.
		It is for this reason that a Tathagata, worthy and rightly self-awakened, is worthy of a burial mound.
		Don't say that: 'this little town, this dusty town, this branch township.' In the past, Ananda, a king named Mahasudassana was a wheel-turning monarch, a righteous king ruling righteously, who was a conqueror of the four directions, a stabilizer of his country, endowed with the seven treasures.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /canon/sutta/digha/dn-16-tb0.html (7668 words)

	THE TATHAGATA ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS ENTERED NIRVANA
		But when I have spoken of other Tathagatas, beginning with the Tathagata Dipinkara, and of the Nirvana of these Tathagatas, then that has just been conjured up by me as an emission of the skill in means by which I demonstrate Dharma.
		And whatever the Tathagata says to educate beings, and whatever the Tathagata utters,-whether he appears as himself or as another whether under his own authority or another,-all these discourses o Dharma are taught as factually true by the Tath-agata, and there I no false speech in them on the part of the Tathagata.
		In the conviction that the Tathagata is always at hand they would not exert their vigour for the purpose of escaping from the triple world, and they would not conceive of the Tathagata as hard to obtain.
	alexm.here.ru /mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/029.html (616 words)

	20 June 2004: About the Diamond-Cutter Sutra (3)
		If there were, the Tathagata would hold (the concept of) an ego, a personality, a being and a life.
		Because the Tathagata has neither whence (to come) nor whither (to go); therefore he is called the Tathagata.
		Because (when) the Tathagata speaks of the view of an ego, a personality, a being and a life, it is not really, (but) is (expediently) called the view of an ego, a personality a being and a life’.
	www.bdcublessings.net.au /radio334.html (2838 words)

	The Diamond Sutra, sections 26-33
		Subhuti then said to Buddha: World-honored One, as I understand the meaning of Buddha's words, the Tathagata may not be perceived by the thirty-two marks.
		The Tathagata's attainment was not by reason of His perfect form.
		Also, World-honored One, when the Tathagata speaks of galaxies of worlds, these are not worlds; for if reality could be predicated of a world it would be a self-existent cosmos and the Tathagata teaches that there is really no such thing.
	community.palouse.net /lotus/diamond26-33.htm (667 words)

	The Diamond Cutter (Vajrachchedika) Revision 1.2
		Yet the very discourse the Tathagata has taught as 'the perfection of wisdom' is exactly the teaching which is not the perfection of wisdom.
		The Tathagata has neither whence nor whither, and therefore he is called the supremely enlightened one'.
		The Tathagata has taught that perception of a dharma is no perception, even though it is called 'perception of a dharma'.
	www.io.com /~snewton/zen/diamond.html (3090 words)

	MN 63: Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata does not exist,' there is the living of the holy life.
		And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata both exists and does not exist,' there is the living of the holy life.
		And it's not the case that when there is the view, 'After death a Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist' there is the living of the holy life.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /canon/sutta/majjhima/mn-063-tb0.html (1119 words)

	Amida Nyorai (Tathagata, Buddha) - Japanese Buddhist Deity; Photo Dictionary
		In his descent from paradise to lead the faithful back to the pure land, Amida is most often flanked by two bodhisattvas, Avalokitesvara (Kannon), and Mahasthamaprapta (Seishi).
		Amida, which means Infinite Light or Infinite Life, is one of the loftiest savior figures in Japanese Buddhism, and Amida faith is concerned primarily with the life to come (paradise).
		Amida is also one of the Five Great Buddha (Tathagata) of Wisdom.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/amida.shtml (2013 words)

	The Tathagata is "Truly Gone"
		The word used here for “truly gone” is tathagatako (translated by E.M. Hare in the PTS edition as “gone for good”), and this story helps us considerably in understanding how the Buddha used the epitaph Tathagata to describe himself.
		His given name was Siddhattha; as a wandering ascetic he went by his mother’s clan name, Gotama; he was known throughout his world as the sage of his father’s family, or Sàkyamuni; and when enlightened he became known as Buddha, the Awakened One.
		His followers most often referred to him as Bhagavant, or “Blessed One,” but the name he almost always used for himself was Tathagata.
	www.dharma.org /ij/archives/1996b/ss_gone.htm (635 words)

	The Greater Lion's Roar Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And that is a Tathagata's power that the Tathagata has, by virtue of which he claims the herd-leader's place, roars his lion's roar in the assemblies, and sets rolling the Wheel of Brahma.
		That too is a Tathagata's power that the Tathagata has, by virtue of which he claims the herd-leader's place, roars his lion's roar in the assemblies, and sets rolling the Wheel of Brahma.
		(7) "Again, the Tathagata understands as it actually is the defilement, the cleansing and the emergence in regard to the jhanas, liberations, concentrations and attainments.
	home1.gte.net /res6zeam/doctrine/lion.html (858 words)

	THE VAGRAKKHEDIKA OR DIAMOND-CUTTER
		Because, O Subhuti, the highest perfect knowledge of the holy and enlightened Tathagatas is produced from it; the blessed Buddhas are produced from it.
		Bliagavat said: 'What do you think, O Subhuti, is a holy and fully enlightened Tathagata to be seen (known) by the thirty-two signs of a hero?' Subhuti said: 'No indeed, O Bhagavat; a holy and fully enlightened Tathagata is not to be seen (known) by the thirty-two signs of a hero.
		And what was preached by the Tathagata as the sphere of a million millions of worlds, that was preached by the Tathagata as no-sphere of worlds; and therefore it is called the sphere of a million millions of worlds.
	fraktali.849pm.com /text/archive/bud/maha/diamond.htm (4885 words)

	Anthony's Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Tathagata speaks of forms which are not forms and of living beings who are not living beings.
		Subhuti replied: 'Yes, yes, He can.' The Buddha said: 'Subhuti, if the Tathagata can be recognised by His thirty-two physical characteristics, a world ruler (cakravarti) would be the Tathagata.' Subhuti said to the Buddha: 'World Honoured One, as I understand your teaching, the Tathagata cannot be recognised by His thirty-two physical characteristics.
		The Tathagata speaks of agglomerations which are not, but are (expediently) called, agglomerations.' 'Subhuti, that which is called an agglomeration cannot be spoken of, but the vulgar man has longing for and attachment to this thing.
	www.livejournal.com /~kyrieinstereo (5401 words)

	Sutra of the Merit and Virtue of the Past Vows of Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If they heard the name of that Buddha, Medicine Master Vaidurya Light Tathagata, in their former human existence, and they recall that Tathagata's name for the briefest moment while they are in the evil destinies, they will immediately be reborn in the human realm.
		Due to these good roots and the power of that Tathagata's past vows, the country will be safe and peaceful, the winds and rains will be timely, the crops will ripen, and all sentient beings will be blissful and free of disease.
		The fourth is to be burned to death; the fifth is to drown; the sixth is to be devoured by wild beasts; the seventh is to fall from a steep cliff; the eighth is to be harmed by poison, voodoo, evil mantras, or corpse-raising ghosts; the ninth is to die from hunger and thirst.
	www.buddhistdoor.com /resources/sutras/medicine_sutra.htm (5144 words)

	The Buddhist Monastic Code II: Chapter 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		what was not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathagata as 'not spoken, not mentioned by the Tathagata'...
		what was not regularly practiced by the Tathagata as 'not regularly practiced by the Tathagata'...
		what was not formulated by the Tathagata as 'not formulated by the Tathagata'...
	www.accesstoinsight.org /lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc2/ch21.html (2062 words)

	T367: The Smaller Pure Land Suutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There presently he resides with body and mind at rest, abides and upholds [that realm], and for the sentient beings expounds and propagates the Dharma which is most deep, minute, and wondrous, causing them to attain that most excellent blessing of peaceful happiness.
		Sariputra, it is from that tathagata and the sentient beings lifespan spanning infinitely countless kalpas.
		Sariputra, it is from that tathagata's always emitting infinite, boundless, and wondrous lights which pervasively illuminate all the Buddha lands in the ten directions, offering those lands [a view of] that Buddha's activity without there being any obstacles.
	villa.lakes.com /cdpatton/Dharma/Canon/T0367-e.html (3904 words)

	Sutra on the Merits and Original Vows of Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Had they had the opportunity during their human lives to have briefly heard the name of Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light, then by this cause they would briefly recall the name of that Tathagata while they are now in the bad realms.
		If they heard the epithet of World Honored One, Tathagata Medicine Guru with Lapis Lazuli Light, then at the end of their lives there would be eight great Bodhisattvas who would come by supernatural powers to indicate the path to them.
		Due to this root of goodness and the power of the original vows of that Tathagata, right then their country would be rendered peaceful and secure, rains and winds would arrive in season, grains and crops would mature, all sentient beings are free from illnesses and joyful.
	www.yogichen.org /efiles/e039.html (4730 words)

	Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zen Buddhism in Japan took Sakyamuni as the principal image and taught to be a living Buddha with enlightenment by Zen meditation training.
		While major schools of Buddhism among the populace took Amitabha Tathagata, a buddha is said to be capable of taking believers to paradise after death.
		The Samurai Suenaga facing Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samurai (7034 words)

	The One That Has Come (S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(S. Tathagata, C. Ju-Lai, J. Nyorai) - This refers to the One That Has Come down into this world from the realm of the absolute spiritual reality (S. Tathata) to enlighten living beings and then reenters Nirvana, returning back to that absolute reality.
		The name ‘The One That Has Come’ (S. Tathagata) has a great deal of meaning - we will now clarify the idea of the two Tathagatas and the three Tathagatas - this will make other illustrations easier to understand.
		If we only discussed the vehicle, there would be no absolute truth to be known.
	www.tientai.net /teachings/dharma/buddha/tathagata.htm (621 words)

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