Icchantika
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Description
According to some Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, the icchantika is the most base and spiritually deluded of all types of being. The term implies being given over to total hedonism and greed.[2]
In the
The two shortest versions of the
Other scriptures (such as the
Buswell notes: "With the prominent exception of the Faxian-School [...], East Asian Buddhists rejected the icchantica-doctrine in favor of the notion that all beings, even the denizens of hell, retained the capacity to attain enlightenment."[4]
See also
- Tao Sheng
- Abomination (Bible)
Notes
- ^ Including icchantikas themselves, though it is more hidden from their consciousness than in other individuals due to the massive accretions of sinfulness and delusion which conceal it from their sight.
References
- ISBN 978-4-88872-025-0– via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Hodge, Stephen (2006). "On the Eschatology of the Mahaparinirvana Sutra and Related Matters" (PDF). lecture delivered at the University of London, SOAS. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 14, 2013.
- ^ a b Liu , Ming-Wood (1984). 'The Problem of the Icchantika in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 7 (1), 71-72
- ISBN 0028657187.
Further reading
- Karashima, Seishi (2007). Who were the Icchantikas?, Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 10, 61-80
- Lai, Whalen (1982). Sinitic speculations on buddha-nature: The Nirvaana school (420-589), Philosophy East and West 32:2, p. 135-149
- Yamamoto, Kosho (tr.), Page, Tony (ed), (1999–2000). The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra in 12 volumes. London: Nirvana Publications.