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Tripitaka Summary

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The story of the Buddha 's personal life is the story of someone who attained full enlightenment through hard work and unwavering dedication. His first awareness that life actually consists of much suffering becomes so after witnessing the processes of birth, ageing, sickness and death. Shakyamuni’s search for supreme enlightenment is to help others to alleviate sufferings. His method is via teaching and converting people.
Most of his teachings have been collected together through a process of almost exclusively oral transmission. They are accounts of the Buddha’s teachings mainly recalled from his disciples by recitation and chanting. These disciples include those such as Ananda [阿難] foremost in memory, Mahakasyapa [摩訶迦葉] and many others. …show more content…

In Chinese culture this is notable as Tang Dynasty Monk Xuanzang whose pilgrimage to India to study and collect Buddhist scriptures for Tang Emporers. Xuanzang’s efforts were colourfully depicted in the fairy tale styled novel Journey to the West. Owing to the popularity of this novel in Chinese folklore the term Tripitaka is often erroneously understood to be the name of Xuanzang. One might recall the screen version of Journey to the West in the 1979 popular TV series …show more content…

He is said to attend the Ceremony in the Air to bear witness to the truth of Shakyamuni 's teachings according to the Lotus Sutra. He and Shakyamuni Buddha are the only ones who are mirror-imaged on the Gohonzon. He lives in the world of Treasure Purity in an eastern part of the universe and is the concrete form of all the buddhas of past ages (Frederic L 1995). While still engaged in bodhisattva practice, he pledged that, even after he had entered nirvana, he would appear, in the Treasure Tower, and attest to the validity of the Lotus Sutra wherever anyone might teach it. Sure enough, this vow he made at his parinirvana enables him to be present within the Treasure Tower speaking and astonishing all those present apart from Shakyamuni.
In the Lotus Sutra chapter 11, Shakyamuni assembles all the Buddhas from throughout the universe. He then opens the Treasure Tower and at Taho 's invitation seats himself at this Buddha 's side. This is the so called one of the three assemblies in two places. (LS

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