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Known as Terrestrial Buddhas, the Manushi-Buddhas are "Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 206.</ref> | Known as Terrestrial Buddhas, the Manushi-Buddhas are "Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans".<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 206.</ref> | ||
== | == Dhyāni-Buddhas == | ||
Known as "Celestial Buddhas", they are "the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth,"<> | Known as "Celestial Buddhas", they are "the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth,"<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 108.</ref> known as Manushi-Buddhas. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
Revision as of 16:38, 30 May 2012
Buddha (devanāgarī: बुद्ध) is a Sanskrit word that means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one." H. P. Blavatsky defined it as follows:
Buddha (Sk.). Lit., “The Enlightened”. The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all otherselves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness.[1]
In the Theosophical view a Buddha appears regularly with each Root-Race:
Esoteric philosophy teaches us that every Root-race has its chief Buddha or Reformer, who appears also in the seven sub-races as a Bodhisattva (q.v.). Gautama Sakyamuni was the fourth, and also the fifth Buddha: the fifth, because we are the fifth root-race; the fourth, as the chief Buddha in this fourth Round.[2]
The current Buddha, Siddhârta Gautama, is said to be the fourth Buddha to appear on Earth in this Round, corresponding to the fifth Root-Race (the beginning of first Root-Race having a Planetary Spirit incarnated instead of a Buddha).
Manūṣi-Buddhas
Known as Terrestrial Buddhas, the Manushi-Buddhas are "Human Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or incarnated Dhyan Chohans".[3]
Dhyāni-Buddhas
Known as "Celestial Buddhas", they are "the eternal prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth,"[4] known as Manushi-Buddhas.
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 64-65.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 56.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 206.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 108.