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and defilement instantaneously by helping one see that they are also non-dual with enlightenment itself. This contemplation is also said to collapse all temporal and spatial dualities, leading one to realize that one is already a Buddha here and now, which also contains all places and all times, all bodhisattva stages and all sentient beings.
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These are the single precepts of the Tathagata, the diamond treasure precepts. They are the precepts which are (based on) the eternally abiding Buddha-nature, the foundational source of all sentient beings, pure in itself and immobile like space. Therefore by means of these precepts one manifests and
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Good friends, when I say 'I vow to save all beings everywhere,' it is not that I will save you, but that sentient beings, each with their own natures, must save themselves. What is meant by 'saving yourselves with your own natures'? Despite heterodox views, passions, ignorance, and delusions, in your
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I constantly say to all sentient beings, “Only sever the ignorance of this triple world; this is called becoming a Buddha. That which is pure in itself is called the nature of inherent enlightenment. This indeed is the universal wisdom of all Buddhas. This is the basis for attainment by sentient
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The medieval Tendai view of original enlightenment saw it as encompassing not only all sentient beings, but all living things and all nature, even inanimate objects - all were considered to be Buddha. This also includes all our actions and thoughts, even our deluded thoughts, as expressions of our
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The main practice promoted in this text is simply to contemplate how ourselves and all other beings are identical to suchness, i.e. original enlightenment. This can be done in combination with any Buddhist practice, or any mundane activity. This practice is said to help one transcend all bad karma
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scholars Matsumoto Shirō and Hakamaya Noriaki critiqued original enlightenment as an ideology that supports the status quo, and legitimates social injustice by accepting all things as expressions of Buddha nature. These scholars went even further in their critiques, arguing that the buddha-nature
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According to Jacqueline Stone, these radical non-dual ideas "do not deny the need for practice. Rather, practice is no longer instrumentalized: it is not a means to enlightenment but inseparable from it. In the inversion of the path seen in hongaku literature, enlightenment becomes the ground of
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This doctrine holds all sentient beings are already enlightened or awakened in some way. In this view, since all beings have some kind of awakeness as their true nature, the attainment of insight is a process of discovering and recognizing what is already present, not of attaining some goal or
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as Tendai monks. The influence of hongaku thought can be seen in Dōgen's view of the “oneness of practice and attainment” (shushō ittō 修証一等), in Shinran’s idea of the “immediate achievement of birth in the Pure Land” (sokutoku ōjō 即得往生) and in also in Nichiren's teaching that all the Buddha's
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practice, rather than its end goal." Some hongaku sources state that this revolutionary view abandons the idea that enlightenment is achieved from the cause (practice) to the effect (buddhahood). Rather, hongaku thought takes us from the effect to the cause (juga kōin 従果向因).
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The teaching of original enlightenment remained a key doctrine for most Japanese Buddhist schools throughout their history, and remains influential today. Original enlightenment thought also influenced the development of other Japanese religions, like
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developing a potential. As such, people do not have to become Buddhas through religious cultivation, they just have to recognize that they already are awake, just like Buddhas. Original enlightenment thought is related to Indian Buddhist concepts like
269:(translated c. 798 by the Indian monk Prajña) also mentions the term, stating: "When the buddhas and bodhisattvas realize enlightenment, they convert the ālaya and attain the wisdom of original enlightenment" (Taisho no. 10 n0293 p0688a08). 299:. Why? Because “original enlightenment” indicates in contradistinction to the process of the actualization of enlightenment; the process of actualization of enlightenment is none other than the identity with the original enlightenment. 1425: 543:
of an originally pure mind that gives rise to the phenomenal world, some parties in the Tiantai school rejected the adoption of the idea into Tiantai. This Song era Tiantai debate was part of the so called "home mountain"
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The essence of Mind is free from thoughts . The characteristic of that free from thoughts is analogous to the sphere of empty space that pervades everywhere. The one aspect of the world of reality (
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Sueki Fumihiko, "Two Seemingly Contradictory Aspects of the Teaching of Innate Enlightenment (hongaku) in Medieval Japan", Japanese Journal of Religious Study 22 (1-2), pp. 3-16, 1995.
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negated. The other feature of medieval hongaku thought was a radical affirmation of the phenomenal world as an expression of the non-dual realm of Buddha nature.
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Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse (2004). "Original Enlightenment (Hongaku)", in Buswell, Robert E., ed. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Macmillan Reference USA; pp. 618-620.
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Stone, Jacqueline. 'From Buddha Nature to Original Enlightenment: "Contemplating Suchness" in Medieval Japan' in Mathes, Klaus-Dieter, and Casey Kemp, eds.
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What these various Chinese sources have in common is that they understand the idea of original enlightenment as the "essence" of things in the framework of
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Ziporyn, Brook. Anti-Chan Polemics in Post-Tang Tiantai. Journal of the international Association of Buddhist Studies Volume 17 • Number 1 • Summer 1994
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dwell within oneself. To seek a separate buddha apart from one’s own person is a time when one does not know that oneself is precisely suchness.
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Tamura Yoshirō (1987), Japanese culture and the Tendai concept of original enlightenment, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 14 (2-3), 203-205
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During this time, lineages of secret oral transmission of hongaku teachings (kuden) also developed within Tendai. The following passage from the
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considered under the aspect of conventional deluded consciousness and thus denotes the potential for enlightenment in unenlightened beings."
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This was expressed in popular phrases such as “the worldly passions are precisely enlightenment”, “birth and death are precisely nirvana,” "
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beings, and the basis for practice by all Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Therefore the bodhisattvas' practice on this basis (T. 8,836b29-837a4).
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explains inherent enlightenment or "Perfect Enlightenment" as the source of all phenomena (which are ultimately illusory), drawing on
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Original enlightenment is often contrasted with “acquired", "initial", "actualized" or "the inception of enlightenment” (始覺, pinyin:
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Toyo Gakuen University, A paper delivered to the International Conference on Sôn at Paekyang-sa, Kwangju, Korea, August 22, 1998.
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own physical bodies you have in yourselves the attributes of inherent enlightenment, so that with correct views you can be saved.
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The platform sutra of the sixth patriarch: the text of the Tun-huang manuscript with translation, introduction, and notes
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Good sons, all sentient beings' various illusions are born from the perfectly enlightened marvelous mind of the
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Shirato, Waka. “Inherent Enlightenment (‘Hongaku Shisō’) and Saichō’s Acceptance of the Bodhisattva Precepts.”
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Original enlightenment thought became particularly important for the tradition during the time from the late
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Original Enlightenment Thought in the Nichiren Tradition. In Lopez, Donald S. (ed.), Buddhism in Practice
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Stone, Jacqueline. “Medieval Tendai Hongaku Thought and the New Kamakura Buddhism: A Reconsideration.”
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Original enlightenment is an influential doctrine of various schools of East Asian Buddhism, including
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Swanson, Paul L.. "Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature".
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and Hirakawa Akira defended the buddha-nature teachings and original enlightenment thought.
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Yoshirō Tamura (1987). "Japanese Culture and the Tendai Concept of Original Enlightenment."
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illustrates the basic idea of original enlightenment found in these types of Tendai sources:
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innately enlightened nature. Tamura Yoshirō saw "original enlightenment thought" (本覺思想,
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The doctrine of innate enlightenment (jp: hongaku) was also very influential in the
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thought (tiyong) and thus see it as the ultimate source or basis for all phenomena.
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Exclusivity (senju) and Innate Enlightenment (hongaku shiso) in Kamakura Buddhism
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Original enlightenment was also an important and widely pervasive doctrine in
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was eventually adopted into the Tiantai school by figures like the patriarch
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Why they say Zen is not buddhism: Recent Japanese critiques of buddha nature
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In medieval China, the doctrine of original enlightenment developed in the
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Gregory, Peter N.; trans. (2005). The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment. In:
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and in the other continental Zen traditions. The Huayan-Chan scholar monk
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The moon reflected in water is a popular simile for enlightenment used by
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commentary), so his view of the teaching is based on these sources.
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presents an extensive analysis of the idea in his commentary on the
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often translated as "inherent", "innate", "intrinsic" or "original"
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The idea is further discussed in the influential commentary to the
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and the teachings found in various Mahayana sources, including the
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The Tendai view of hongaku had deep impact on the development of
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also identifies inherent enlightenment with "true suchness" (真如,
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tradition is grounded on the view of original enlightenment and
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school which further integrated Huayan ideas into Tiantai.
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Critique of Original Awakening thought in Shōshin and Dōgen
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Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism
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Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism
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Index


Dōgen
Genjōkōan
Chinese
pinyin
Japanese pronunciation
Korean pronunciation
East Asian Buddhist doctrine
awakeness
Buddha-nature
luminous mind
Awakening of Faith
Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment
Chan
Zen
Tiantai
Huayan
sudden enlightenment
Japanese Zen
Korean Buddhism
Korean Seon
Shingon
Tendai
Kamakura schools
Japanese Zen
Chinese Buddhism
Mahayana
tathagatagarbha
luminous mind
Śūraṅgama Sūtra

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