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    For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, the B... — Carmelics
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    For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, the Buddhas must actively work to bridge the gap between dharma and beings' ignorance

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    • 1.There is a breach between ordinary human awareness and enlightened wisdom-compassion
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    • 2.Human understanding is distorted by self-attachment and ignorance
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    • 3.Beings cannot on their own apprehend the Buddha's vow
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    • 1.Śāntideva and the Yogācāra tradition hold that buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha) is already immanent within all sentient beings.
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    • 2.If awakening potential is intrinsic to beings, no external bridging act by Buddhas is logically necessary for dharma comprehension.
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    • 3.The claim conflates soteriological difficulty with metaphysical impossibility, treating practical obstacles as constitutive barriers.
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    • 1.Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō argues that practice and enlightenment are non-dual, meaning beings' engagement with dharma is itself the Buddha's activity.
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    • 2.If practice already embodies awakening, positing a separate bridging intervention by Buddhas introduces a false ontological gap into Buddhist soteriology.
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    For Pure Land teaching to be authentically grasped, a shift or transfo...83%Authentic grasp of the teaching requires overcoming the distortions of...78%There is a breach between ordinary human awareness and enlightened wis...76%Hōnen's Pure Land thought asserts a breach between ordinary human awar...74%

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    Issues of hermeneutics are central to the Japanese Pure Land tradition because of the breach it asserts between the ordinary awareness of beings and the enlightened wisdom-compassion of the Buddha, which is the source and ultimate content of the teaching. This is not, of course, a problem limited to the Pure Land tradition, but has engaged Buddhist tradition from the time of Sakyamuni. Nevertheless, communicating its teaching raises special difficulties for Hōnen’s Pure Land thought because of i
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