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    It is not the case that If practice already embodies awakening, positing a separate bridging intervention by Buddhas introduces a false ontological gap into Buddhist soteriology.

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    • 1.Pure Land Buddhism explicitly teaches Buddha-intervention as soteriologically essential; rejecting this dismisses major Buddhist traditions as incoherent.
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    • 2.Practice and Buddha-aid need not be ontologically discontinuous; grace and effort can be complementary rather than mutually exclusive metaphysical categories.
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    • 3.Some practitioners lack capacity for self-directed practice; compassionate intervention fills this gap without ontological inconsistency.
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    • 1.Buddhahood is the full actualization of Buddha-nature; positing external intervention suggests Buddha-nature remains incomplete until external aid.
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    • 2.Ontological parsimony: if practice itself generates awakening, additional metaphysical entities (intervening Buddhas) violate explanatory economy.
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    • 3.The claim preserves practitioner agency and responsibility by locating the transformative power within practice itself, not external saviors.
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