westsider

what are the common philosophies among all these different "佛教"? and how much do they contradict each other?

westsider

I can't write/type chinese... copy n' paste:

原始佛教、部派佛教、大乘佛教、密乘佛教和今日的印度佛教, etc:
what 教義互相彼此承認, what 教義不互相彼此承認?

westsider

Originally posted by bengrace50 at 2005-8-17 04:19 PM:

原始佛教及部派佛教其實是小乘教派。  ...

Thank you. Sorry but I think I have pretty bad Chinese....

"認為佛是無量的，菩薩亦是無量的". What is "無量"?

"小乘人見佛只是丈六老比丘相" What does it mean?

Seems like "大乘教派" added something to "小乘教派". Why? What was their reason of doing so?

westsider

Thanks.

"法身佛是要菩薩才能見".
"當時的人根器未能接受到大乘教派的道理。所以佛就說小乘經".

1) So for 民眾, like myself, 大乘 and 小乘 are the same?

"釋迦牟尼佛" started 小乘.

2) Who/what started "大乘"?

westsider

Thanks. I'll do more reading.

Do you have the English name of "龍樹菩薩"?

westsider

http://www.acmuller.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?59.xml+id('b5927-4e58')

http://www.acmuller.net/cgi-bin/xpr-ddb.pl?5c.xml+id('b5c0f-4e58')

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddism

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westsider

Benbrace50:
小乘度己
大乘度己度人

But some Buddist told me that all they're chasing is 菩薩's "help".

So is "seeking 菩薩's help" an essential believe of Buddism?

Can one look for only 度己/度己度人, but not for 菩薩's "help"???

westsider

Originally posted by bengrace50 at 2005-8-30 12:26 AM:


你說的那未必是佛教徒，可能是拜神的世俗人。正式佛教徒如法修行，你不求佛菩薩都自然助你修行。

"拜神的世俗人" 不是 佛教徒?!  um... but they based their believe in their "佛教"...

so from the correct 佛教 point-of-view, "拜神的世俗人" are totally wrong?

And based on the correct 佛教, does "拜神" do anything good for them?

westsider

Originally posted by bengrace50 at 2005-8-30 12:35 AM:
布殊同其他教徒的分別。

I like your answer.