Chapter 70: Becoming a Buddha
"Congratulations to my brother for advancing to the Buddha realm, it's so good that I'm getting closer to the deity."
"Aha! Are you talking about the Buddha-figure the ultimate lineage? ””
"Well, brother, you can come to the ring of life and death to open other doors, there must be more help for you"
"Hahaha good"
The madman came out of the furnace directly with the body master on his back, stood in front of several people, and told them the general content and what happened, the madman had a Buddha body on his chest at this time, which is the mark of the Buddha-figure inheritance, everyone understands that the madman has really become a Buddha, and also knows that the madman has obtained the true inheritance, but the problem of ascension has not been solved, and it is also a thing that troubles everyone, the founder Shakyamuni was born in Lumbini, in present-day Nepal, and is a prince of the Shakya clan. There are still various theories about the year of his birth and death in Northern and Southern Buddhism, but it is generally believed that he was born between the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. As a teenager, he felt the vagaries of the world and pondered the way out of life's suffering. At the age of 29, he became a monk and practiced. After attaining enlightenment and becoming a Buddha (Buddha), he preached the truth of his enlightenment to the masses in the central Ganges Valley of India, and gained more and more followers, thus forming an order and forming Buddhism. At the age of 80, he attained Nirvana in the Detention of Naga.
After the founding of Buddhism, it evolved several times in India. The Buddhism preached by the Buddha and his direct disciples is called Root Buddhism. After the Buddha attained nirvana, his disciples practiced the basic teachings of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, and maintained the practices of his lifetime in the life of the Order. Since the Buddha had different opinions about different objects on different occasions when he was alive, his disciples had different understandings of this. About 100 years after the Buddha's death, Buddhism split into two major schools, Theravada and Popular, called the Fundamental Two Divisions. After that, there were divisions for more than 100 years, and they were successively divided into 18 or 20 divisions, which were called the branch end faction. There are different theories about the order, chronology, name, and region of the tribal split. At that time, Buddhism spread from the foothills of the Himalayas in the north to the Kisnath River (Krishna River) in the south. It is generally believed that the largest part of the Theravada direct division is the Sarvastivada Division. Theravada (represented by Sarvastivada Buddhism) and Mass Buddhism are quite different in their teachings. The main differences between the two divisions are: (1) the understanding of the Dharma (things, existence). The Ministry of Public believes that "the past and the future are not real", "the existing body can be used in name and reality", that is, all reality is born and died according to karma, the past has been extinguished, there is no substance, the future does not arise, there is no substance, and there is only a Dharma body and function in the present moment; Saying that Sarvastivada asserts that the Dharma body exists eternally, and that the past, present, and future three lifetimes are also real, that is, the so-called "eternal existence of the Dharma body" and "the reality of the three lifetimes" is called the theory of the existence of the Dharma of the Self. (2) Knowledge of the Buddha. The Mass Sect believes that Shakyamuni Buddha, who was born and died in the world, is an incarnation rather than a real body, and that the Buddha's actual body is the result of accumulating long-term practice, that he has an infinite lifespan and power, that all his words are said randomly, and that he speaks all the Dharma in one voice; Sarvastivada does not recognize Shakyamuni as an incarnation, and believes that the Buddha's words are not all sutras, nor do they speak all the Dharma in one voice. (3) Awareness of shravaka and bodhisattvas. The Ministry of Mass emphasizes the compassionate aspirations of the Bodhisattva for a wide range of sentient beings, and whispers to the Bodhisattva; Although Sarvastivada acknowledges that there is a difference between the root practices of shravaka, karma, and bodhisattvas and the path they practice, they believe that there is no difference between the liberation attained by a Buddha and shravaka and karma.
Around the time of the Gregorian calendar, the worship of stupas became popular among Buddhists, thus forming the first Mahayana order, the Bodhisattvas. Some of them practiced and preached according to the Mahayana Sutra, Vima Sutra, Myoho-renge-kyo Sutra and other scriptures that expounded Mahayana thought and practice, forming two major systems, Madhyamaka (empty sect) and Yoga (Yoga sect), and dejoratively referred to early Buddhism as Hinayana .
About 500 years after the Buddha's nirvana, the Mahayana Madhyamaka school arose. Nagarjuna, the founder of this school, expounded the ideas of emptiness, the middle way, and the two truths, and his disciple Deva continued to promote Nagarjuna's teachings, which led to the further development of Mahayana Buddhism. Later, there were also clear discernment, Buddha protection, moon names, etc., which expounded the ideas of Madhyamaka from different angles, forming the Self-Continuation School and the Ying Cheng School. At the same time, the Theravada Buddhism of Sarvastivada and Sutra continued to develop.
About 900 years after the Buddha's nirvana, the Yoga school arose. The founders of this school are Asanga and hereditary relatives. Asanga, which originally said that the Mulasarvastivada monks expounded the Mahayana teachings because they felt inadequate about the teachings of the Mulasarvastivada teachings. His younger brother was originally a scholar of all the Sarvastivada scholars, but later converted to Mahayana from Asanga, and was called "the master of the Thousand Commentators". Asanga, the worldly relatives carry forward the "Ten Thousand Laws of Wisdom" and "Three Realms Idealism" of the only knowledge, since then the inheritance mainly has Nanda, Anhui, Chenna, Dharma Protector 4, after the Dharma Protector there are also precepts, Qinguang and so on.
After the 7th century, Hindu Esoteric Buddhism became popular, and after the 8th century, it was close to Hinduism. The Pala Dynasty built a super-ordination monastery outside of Nalanda Monastery as a center for the study and propagation of Esoteric Buddhism; After the 9th century, Esoteric Buddhism became more prosperous, and successively formed Vajrayana, Birthing Vehicle, and Kalachakra Vehicle. From the 11th century, the influence of Islam gradually spread throughout the East Indies, and by the beginning of the 13th century, many important monasteries such as the Chaojie Monastery were destroyed, the monks scattered, and Buddhism disappeared from the South Asian subcontinent. From then on, the madman was really a Buddhist person, and he was also a practitioner of Buddhism.