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The idea of an eternal Buddha is a notion popularly associated with the Mahayana scripture, the Lotus Sutra, and isalso found in other Mahayana sutras.

Lotus Sutra and Mahaparinirvana SutraThe Lotus Sutra portrays the Buddha as indicating that he became awakened countless, immeasurable, inconceivablemyriads of trillions of aeons ("kalpas") ago and that his lifetime is "forever existing and immortal". From the humanperspective, it seems as though the Buddha has always existed. The sutra itself, however, does not directly employthe phrase "eternal Buddha"; yet similar notions are found in other Mahayana scriptures, notably theMahaparinirvana Sutra, which presents the Buddha as the ultimately real, eternal ("nitya"/ "vata"), unchanging,blissful, pure Self (Atman) who, as the Dharmakaya, knows of no beginning or end.

The Chinese scholar Zhiyi [ ] (538597) viewed Shakyamuni Buddha of Ch 16 of the Lotus Sutra as aunification of the Three Buddha Bodies. That is, Shakyamuni of Ch 16 possesses all Three Bodies. Other sutras aretaught from the standpoint of a single Buddha Body, but Ch 16 onwards is taught from a unification of the Three.[2]

Commenting on the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Dr. Guang Xing writes:'One of the main themes of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra is that the Buddha is eternal, a theme very muchin contrast with the Hinayana idea that the Buddha departed for ever after his final nirvana. The Mahayanists assertthe eternity of the Buddha in two ways in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. They state that the Buddha is the dharmakaya,and hence eternal. Next, they re-interpret the liberation of the Buddha as mahaparinirvana possessing four attributes:eternity, happiness, self and purity. In other words, according to the Mahayanists, the fact that the Buddha abides inthe mahaparinirvana means not that he has departed for ever, but that he perpetually abides in intrinsic quiescence.The Buddha abiding in intrinsic quiescence is none other than the dharmakaya ... This dharmakaya is the realBuddha. It is on this doctrinal foundation that the Mahaparinirvana Sutra declares:"the dharmakaya has [theattributes of] eternity (nitya), happiness (sukha), self (atman) and purity (subha) and is perpetually free from birth,old age, sickness, death and all other sufferings ... It exists eternally without change ..."'[3]

The All-Creating King Tantra additionally contains a panentheistic vision of Samantabhadra Buddha as the eternal,primordial Buddha, the Awakened Mind of bodhi, who declares: "From the primordial, I am the Buddhas of the threetimes [i.e. past, present and future]."

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Nichiren BuddhismThe Nichiren Shu, Rissho Kosei Kai and Kempon Hokke schools of Nichiren Buddhism revere Shakyamuni ofChapter 16 of the Lotus Sutra as the Eternal Buddha. Shakyamuni of Ch 16 is regarded as a Unification of the ThreeBodies, as taught by Tiantai.[4] This Saha World is regarded as the True Pure Land, because Shakyamuni revealed inthe Lotus Sutra that it is His domain, and He remains in the world to preach.[5] Other Buddhas, such as Amida of thePure Land (J. Nembutsu) School, and Mahavairochana of the True Word (J. Shingon) School are seen as provisionalmanifestations of the Original Buddha Shakyamuni.[6]

Shin BuddhismIn Shin Buddhism, Amida Buddha is viewed as the eternal Buddha who manifested as Shakyamuni in India and whois the personification of Nirvana itself. The Shin Buddhist priest, John Paraskevopoulos, in his monograph on ShinBuddhism, writes:'In Shin Buddhism, Nirvana or Ultimate Reality (also known as the "Dharma-Body" or Dharmakaya in the originalSanskrit) has assumed a more concrete form as (a) the Buddha of Infinite Light (Amitabha) and Infinite Life(Amitayus) and (b) the "Pure Land" or "Land of Utmost Bliss" (Sukhavati), the realm over which this Buddha is saidto preside.... Amida is the Eternal Buddha who is said to have taken form as Shakyamuni and his teachings in orderto become known to us in ways we can readily comprehend.'[7]

John Paraskevopoulos elucidates the notion of Nirvana, of which Amida is an embodiment, in the following terms:'... [Nirvana's] more positive connotation is that of a higher state of being, the dispelling of illusion and thecorresponding joy of liberation. An early Buddhist scripture describes Nirvana as: ...the far shore, the subtle, the verydifficult to see, the undisintegrating, the unmanifest, the peaceful, the deathless, the sublime, the auspicious, thesecure, the destruction of craving, the wonderful, the amazing, the unailing, the unafflicted, dispassion, purity,freedom, the island, the shelter, the asylum, the refuge... (Samyutta Nikaya).[8]

This Nirvana is seen as eternal and of one nature, indeed as the essence of all things. According to Paraskevopoulos:'In Mahayana Buddhism it is taught that there is fundamentally one reality which, in its highest and purestdimension, is experienced as Nirvana. It is also known, as we have seen, as the Dharma-Body (considered as theultimate form of Being) or "Suchness" (Tathata in Sanskrit) when viewed as the essence of all things ... "TheDharma-Body is eternity, bliss, true self and purity. It is forever free of all birth, ageing, sickness and death"(Nirvana Sutra).[9]

To attain this Self, however, it is needful to transcend the 'small self' and its pettiness with the help of an 'external'agency, Amida Buddha. This is the view promulgated by the Jodo Shinshu founding Buddhist master, ShinranShonin. John Paraskevopoulos comments on this:'Shinran's great insight was that we cannot conquer the self by the self. Some kind of external agency is required: (a)to help us to shed light on our ego as it really is in all its petty and baneful guises; and (b) to enable us to subdue thesmall 'self' with a view to realising the Great Self by awakening to Amida's light.'[10]

When that Great Self of Amida's light is realised, Shin Buddhism is able to see the Infinite which transcends thecare-worn mundane. John Paraskevopoulos concludes his monograph on Shin Buddhism thus:'It is time we discarded the tired view of Buddhism as a dry and forensic rationalism, lacking in warmth and devotion... By hearing the call of Amida Buddha we become awakened to true reality and its unfathomable working ... to livea life that dances jubilantly in the resplendent light of the Infinite.'[11]

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ShingonShingon Buddhism sees Vairochana Buddha as the personification of the Dharmakaya, and hence as the EternalBuddha.

Notes[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Template:Mah%C4%81y%C4%81na_Buddhism& action=edit[2][2] Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, "Three Bodies"[3] Dr. Guang Xing, The Concept of the Buddha, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2005, p. 89[4][4] Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, "Three Bodies"[5][5] Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, Soka Gakkai, 'Pure Land'[6][6] Nichiren Daishonin, Rissho Ankoku Ron (Eng. On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land), 1260 CE[7] John Paraskevopoulos, Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism, Sophia Perennis Publications, California, 2009, pp. 16 - 17[8][8] John Paraskevopoulos, Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism, California, 2009, p. 21[9] Paraskevopoulos, Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism, California, 2009, p. 22[10] John Paraskevopoulos, The Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism, California, 2009, p. 43[11] John Paraskevopoulos, The Call of the Infinite: The Way of Shin Buddhism, California, 2009, p. 81

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