In Mahayana Buddhism the icchantika (一闡提) is an incorrigible unbeliever who lacks faith in Buddhism and has no prospect of attaining enlightenment. According...

discusses the idea of the icchantikas, a class of sentient beings who "have little or no chance of liberation." The icchantika idea is discussed in various...

reborn in Sukhavati]. Ajatashatru Avijjā Buddhist views on sin Devadatta Icchantika Karma in Buddhism Merit (Buddhism) Moha (Buddhism) Pratitya-samutpada...

and evil are always nondual and mutually possessed. The most depraved icchantika is endowed the Buddha realm, while the Buddha is still latently endowed...

monastic community for defending the idea that incorrigible persons (icchantika) do indeed have Buddha-nature (fo-hsing). Maura O'Halloran also gives...

doctrine, the eternality of the Buddha, and the soteriological fate of the icchantikas and so forth. It has been suggested by Waddell that the site of the death...

because they lacked any wholesome seeds The fifth class of beings, the icchantika, were described in various Mahayana sutras as being incapable of achieving...

much faster way to enlightenment. Even the most depraved of beings, the icchantikas, can attain awakening through the simplest esoteric method: recitation...

Humanistic Buddhism Christmas Humphreys Hungry ghost Huot Tat Hwaom Hyecho Icchantika I Ching (monk) Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand Iddhi...

that states that there is a certain class of very deluded beings called icchantikas who can never become Buddhas. The Xuanzang school also maintained the...

term used in Mahayana doctrine to refer to the early Buddhist schools Icchantika Inka International Buddhist College Jambudvipa — lit., "rose-apple island...

discussed in the sutra include Buddhist vegetarianism, the theory of icchantikas, the wrong views of non-buddhists (tirthikas, especially Samkhya), a...

kimon 寒山詩闡提記聞 (1746) ("Notes on the Lectures on Cold Mountain's Poems at Icchantika Cave") that largely ignores the biographical reading most commonly found...

behavioural negativities) in every single being, even the worst - the icchantika.[citation needed] Although attempts are made in the Buddhist sutras to...

of tathāgatagarbha, and concern with the worst sinners, including the icchantika. The sutra is most insistent that the Tathāgatagarbha and the self (Ātman)...

(青园寺) from 419. Daosheng controversially ascribed Buddha-nature to the icchantikas, based on his reading on a short version of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra...

in five "families" corresponding to the three vehicles, undefined and icchantikas (deluded hedonists). The Ratnagotravibhāga focuses on the family lineage...

Pure Land, though in some cases, such as the Hossō school taught that icchantikas (people who committed the Five Grave Acts) could not obtain rebirth ever...