REL-3340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tushita, Vimalakirti, Nikaya Buddhism
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Main ideas: due to the power of compassion, bodhisattvas who have understood the emptiness of intrinsic nature feel destitute themselves [because sentient beings] are made destitute by impermanence. More than sixty works are ascribed to him. The other siddha is the famous saraha, a monk who is said to have been expelled from the monastery for drinking alcohol. He took a young woman of the arrow-making caste as his consort and learned to make arrows himself; he is commonly depicted holding an arrow. Main ideas: "subhuti, as long as there is any distinctive feature there is falsehood, and as long as there is no distinctive feature there is no falsehood. Accordingly, it is by virtue of the featurelessness of his distinctive features that a realized one can be seen. " Whoever followed me through the sound of my voice, A realized one has the dharma for a body, But the nature of dharma being unknowable by sensory consciousness,
