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    Vast numbers of celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas presen... — Carmelics
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    Vast numbers of celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas presently exist who have already reached attainment.

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    • 1.Buddhahood is the supreme fulfillment available to all sentient beings since the beginningless past.
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    • 2.Many sentient beings have had sufficient time and opportunity to reach buddhahood across beginningless existence.
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    • 1.Beginningless time does not entail that any finite sequence of causes has had sufficient opportunity to reach completion.
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    • 2.An infinite regress of prior conditions can perpetually defer attainment without ever actualizing it, as Kant's antinomies of pure reason demonstrate.
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    • 1.Madhyamaka philosophy, particularly Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā, holds that ultimately no substantial, independently existing 'buddhas' can be posited as really present.
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    • 2.If celestial buddhas lack inherent existence from the perspective of ultimate truth, the claim that vast numbers 'presently exist' conflates conventional designation with ontological presence.
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    The Mahayana tradition, however, recognized the attainment of buddhahood itself—not merely deliverance from afflicting passions and samsaric existence—as the genuine goal of religious practice and proclaimed it, along with the engagement with beings in samsara that it implied, as the supreme fulfillment for all sentient beings since the beginningless past. It is natural, therefore, that Mahayana Buddhists recognize the present existence of vast numbers of celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas who h
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