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...
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Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (section Icchantikas)
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...
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reborn in Sukhavati]. Ajatashatru Avijjā Buddhist views on sin Devadatta Icchantika Karma in Buddhism Merit (Buddhism) Moha (Buddhism) Pratitya-samutpada...
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and evil are always nondual and mutually possessed. The most depraved icchantika is endowed the Buddha realm, while the Buddha is still latently endowed...
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monastic community for defending the idea that incorrigible persons (icchantika) do indeed have Buddha-nature (fo-hsing). Maura O'Halloran also gives...
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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...
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because they lacked any wholesome seeds The fifth class of beings, the icchantika, were described in various Mahayana sutras as being incapable of achieving...
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much faster way to enlightenment. Even the most depraved of beings, the icchantikas, can attain awakening through the simplest esoteric method: recitation...
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Humanistic Buddhism Christmas Humphreys Hungry ghost Huot Tat Hwaom Hyecho Icchantika I Ching (monk) Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand Iddhi...
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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...
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term used in Mahayana doctrine to refer to the early Buddhist schools Icchantika Inka International Buddhist College Jambudvipa — lit., "rose-apple island...
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discussed in the sutra include Buddhist vegetarianism, the theory of icchantikas, the wrong views of non-buddhists (tirthikas, especially Samkhya), a...
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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...
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behavioural negativities) in every single being, even the worst - the icchantika.[citation needed] Although attempts are made in the Buddhist sutras to...
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of tathāgatagarbha, and concern with the worst sinners, including the icchantika. The sutra is most insistent that the Tathāgatagarbha and the self (Ātman)...
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(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...
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in five "families" corresponding to the three vehicles, undefined and icchantikas (deluded hedonists). The Ratnagotravibhāga focuses on the family lineage...
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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...
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