…was not, however, the Buddhism that gradually unfolded the great arts, the great cultures, the great mystics and idealists of the Mahayana system. Man gradually came to realize that somehow the great spiritual truths had to be brought within the range of…

…which bring forth all things. These may also have their parallels and their equivalences In this pattern of the earth, in the Mahayana system, each of the planets, the logos of the groups, becomes the Buddha of the northern system. Each of the planets is…

…responsibility which he has properly and reasonably accepted, and which, having accepted, he is under duty to fulfill. This Mahayana innovation gave the Eastern world a tremendous step forward, making possible more progress, more development on a physical level…

…selfish project in a great many cases. It must be attained at the expense of something or someone. Eastern philosophy, particularly Mahayana, indicates that growth is a personal thing, but it is the kind of a personal thing which is properly administered.…

…we study it, that the ship of Osiris is actually the great ship of the doctrine of Eastern Buddhism, particularly of the Mahayana, or the great vehicle. It is also the Navis, or great ship of Christendom, Because the early cathedrals were fashioned in the…

…immediately. In Buddhism, there were two great schools called the large vehicle and the small vehicle. The large vehicle was the Mahayana and the small vehicle was the Hinayana. In the Hirayana system, the end of the Buddhist discipline was the perfection…

…is really the foundation of the whole Buddhist spirit. On the opposite polarity to this doctrine, There gradually rose the Mahayana school, or the school of the Bodhisattva doctrine. Now a Bodhisattva was conceived as a being also, but entirely different…

…friars. Now the difference between the monk and the friar was almost the same as the difference between the Hinayana and the Mahayana saints. The monk was very likely to retire into the houses of his order, and there to remain Perhaps his principal…

…experience of growth can only be experienced through suffering and on to the great growth that leads to enlightenment. In the Mahayana, however, the possibility of one person serving another development of the concept of reality as a state of bhakti, or…

…to pause and wonder whether there has not been a little borrowing or exchanging between certain religious beliefs. We know that Mahayana actually arose as a powerful religion or religious motion or concept prior to the beginning of the Christian era. We…

…the different departments of experience and life, and gives us a vital and important understanding. Now in your northern or Mahayana system of Buddhism, five of the celestial Buddhas are recognized. Two are concealed. In the human sensory gamut, five senses…

…he is subjected to karma but when this type of duty is at an end he is no longer subject to karma. In the Mahayana system of Buddhism, as taught in China, Japan, and most parts of Asia, the individual who finally attains the complete release from the…

…completely accomplish in this world. So the being stands there on the border of existence. And then according to the Buddhist Mahayana doctrine there is a pause. Because the last emotion that the individual has when everything else has gone and ceased, when…

…virtues by never testing them. But as time went on, about 100 BC approximately, in Buddhism there was a new movement called the Mahayana or the great vehicle and this was represented by a new attitude toward life in which those who sought to develop a…

…gaining the internal strength to dedicate thought, emotion and effort to constructive purposes the Hinayana sought salvation for itself. The Mahayana sought the salvation of all that lives. Therefore, Mahayana became the great heart doctrine of Asia. It was a…

…effort to constructive purposes the Hinayana sought salvation for itself. The Mahayana sought the salvation of all that lives. Therefore, Mahayana became the great heart doctrine of Asia. It was a doctrine of compassion, of forgiveness, of living quietly in…

…go out and attain illumination and let the rest of the world suffer. To meet this particular mystery of action, the Mahayana school developed what was called the doctrine of the Bodhisattvas. The Bodhisattvas were persons who gradually, over a number of…

…go on to eternal rest or to go back and labor in the world for the common good. Those who did this in the Buddhist Mahayana system were considered the greatest of all They came back to the world, took back or took on the illusion of life, but lived…

…magnificent moral ethical structure. with no limitations or restrictions that are obviously difficult. For the Eastern systems, I like Mahayana Buddhism because it represents probably one of the most completely idealistic systems that we have. It is free from…

…the secret of a good many things these Pijiwara princes in creating their rituals based upon the sacred text of the Mahayana scriptures developed a wonderful, unworldly pattern, the purpose of which was to lift the human consciousness out of the everyday…

…had its great revival in the first century AD, and that in some way or method, there was a connection between the Mahayana school of Buddhistic mysticism and the rising school of Christianity in the Near East. The physical contact was possible, there is…

…but the certainties we do not have. More recent studies, however, are inclined to push back the date of the rise of the Mahayana sect to probably the first century B.C. If such is the case, then we have an entirely different story, but we cannot be…

…but we cannot be dogmatic on this subject now. In any event, Nagarjuna found in the Iron Tower the secret books of Mahayana. It was from this structure, therefore, that a great Buddhist mysticism arose, known as the Northern School or the School of High…

…were taught and continue to be taught until the recent Russian invasion. So we have in this system one phase of our Mahayana and the fact that certainly initiation into Lamaism in Tibet was for centuries a most profound and elaborate ritual divided into…

…almost as long as the entire Bible from memory. Great study and studentship in these specialized areas. The rise of Mahayana brought with it a kind of Eastern Gnosticism. There was a wonderful multiplication of hierarchy. The invisible worlds began to…

…profound, and emotionally mature metaphysics. with the advent of the Pure Land Doctrine or the Northern School As soon as Mahayana arose, the entire course of Buddhist history changed. And while there are still groups clinging strongly to the old way,…

…there are still groups clinging strongly to the old way, most of the progress in Buddhism has been the result of the Mahayana group operating in China, Korea, and Japan. They have represented the spearhead of the modernism of religion in Asia. About the…

…that we have for Jewish transcendentalism. Kabbalism is to the old orthodox Jewish belief almost in the same relationship as Mahayana Buddhism to primitive Buddhism in India. or the theological Taoism to the primitive absolutism of Lao Tzu. In each instance,…

…So being life and light constitute the basic triad of the Kabbalah. Being life and light constitute the basic triad of Mahayana Buddhism. There is no essential difference. There is only such difference as would be inevitably the result of translation from…

…him. This, incidentally, is a very deep mystical tradition, and it finds itself, of course, well stated in the northern of Mahayana school of Buddhism, where the Bodhisattva renounces the nirvana and takes the oath of the great sacrifice in which he affirms…

…is a 6th and 7th sense contained within that gets it out. Also in the Bodhisattva doctrine of Norman Buddhism, the Mahayana system, there are five Yadavuddhas, but there are two others hidden. For in the ancient system, there were always five revealed…

…have been attributed to Sankarachaya. And these reformations resulted in the complete shift of Buddhism and the rise of the Mahayana or great vehicle. And the principal leaders of that great vehicle movements were contemporaries of Jesus and lived 600 years…

…broad schools if we study the sutras or the sacred books of Buddhism certainly those prior to the last great reformation under Mahayana we find that Buddha is a strict moralist we find that he refuses under any condition to explore the abstractions of…

…the Christian era, there was a great resurgence of mysticism in Asia. And this revival centered largely around what we term today Mahayana Buddhism. By this revival the entire doctrine of Buddha was opened up from within itself as though a great bird of…

…tree of the Kama'a. It is also the great tree of the Vedic mystery. And we have of the same concept arising in Mahayana Buddhism and the scriptures which have to do with the establishment of the Buddha in all of the great directions of space. The…

…very closely toward the Indian concept of yoga that they were sensing the same light principle that is also to be found in Mahayana Buddhism the world of the radiance of truth the world of the eternal light in which all things live and move and have…

…very closely toward the indian concept of yoga that they were sensing the same light principle that is also to be found in Mahayana Buddhism the world of the radiance of truth the world of the eternal light in which all things live and move and have…

…it is also one of the essential elements in the great Kabbalistic system. Also at this time, we must remember that Mahayana Buddhism was rising in India, perhaps had already risen. And this conveys another important element, which perhaps had been generally…

…affected the religions of the West especially through the Christology of Saint Paul so it is quite possible that Mahayana Buddhism which had this tremendous emphasis upon the immediacy of spiritual authority That it was not something infinitely remote,…

…in some measure, to bestow its consolation upon the suffering heart and the broken pride and the tortured soul. This Mahayana Buddhism accomplished in connection with classical Buddhism, which was the rather austere doctrine that Gautama gave the world. This…

…be a small, helpless victim. But the bet has been long touched by the grandeur of a concept, a concept of the Mahayana concept. According to the Tibetan, there are certain things we have to always remember. That all these disasters that arise, arise…

…in the last 50 years. But the old prejudices linger on, and it is sometimes extremely difficult to uproot them. In the Mahayana system, the most important of all of the Sutras of Buddha was the so-called Last Revelations. This is supposed to have occurred…

…say, and the southern Buddhists insist, that all this was a sustaining of the teachings of Buddha. But if you study the Mahayana scriptures carefully, and there are others that came later besides the one of the great law. The other features, of course,…

…his own purpose. There was something in the old Hinayana that was selfish, man badly dashing after peace. And in the Mahayana, it seemed at least to many northern nations that perhaps were more genuinely optimistic, then southern India, it occurred to them…

…I will accept that at the moment as being enough. And this, of course, is exactly how the great concept of Mahayana Buddhism came into existence. Because the paradise of Amitabha suspended between the outer illusion and the absolute perfection is this…

…the all-beautiful, the all-wonderful, and the all-good. And in order to signify this wonderful, incredible state of things, the Mahayana Buddhist, from which the Zen derived most of its teachings, picture against the mysterious background of the cosmic shades…

…be filled with unspeakable joy. There is no radiant heaven world in old Buddhism such as we have in other religions, although Mahayana, to a measure, filled this interval with a blessed region. But in the original teachings of Buddha, there was no promise…

…But most persons are not willing to make such sacrifices. So the physical problem has to be solved as it is in Mahayana Buddhism, not by going into the desert and meditating and praying, but facing each day with an increasing degree of internal…

…no longer requires that we be understood, only that we understand. This is the beginning of the Bodhisattva doctrine of the Mahayana Buddhist. The Bodhisattva is simply the individual who via the illusion has reached the point where the world is no longer…

…very essence of illumination. I think this also leads indirectly perhaps to the same end that you have in the Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Mahayana inserted between the mortal state of mind and the infinite of the Mahaparamavana, the mysterious western…

…illumination. I think this also leads indirectly perhaps to the same end that you have in the Mahayana Buddhist teaching. Mahayana inserted between the mortal state of mind and the infinite of the Mahaparamavana, the mysterious western paradise of Amitabha.…

…this book is that it is by far the most evidential in the matter of indicating H. P. Blavatsky's knowledge of Mahayana Buddhism. In this particular little volume, she clearly indicates not only her familiarity with this particular school of Buddhist thought,…

…came into Tibet is also somewhat of a mystery. But for all practical purposes, I think we must say that it was the Mahayana, or large vehicle, the same system that was to reach across to the China, Korea, and Japan. The Tibetan Buddhist certainly enjoyed…

…out of this later rose the other system of thinking to which Martin Blavatsky was most predicted, and that was Mahayana Buddhism. We know definitely that Buddha himself had available to him these great universal concepts of Hinduism. Because he possessed…

…cosmology of the secret doctrine arising from the universe. Mass of common sense arising out of the visions of the first great Mahayana saint. Now there is only one point here that I think is somewhat valuable to us. But Maudgalyayana did not stop writing…

…one of the wise men who visited him from the east to the crib in Bethlehem. But this, by the way, means that Mahayana and all others entered, as far as revelation is concerned, the entire universe. The great saviors and patriarchs, and in the descent of…

…as far as revelation is concerned, the entire universe. The great saviors and patriarchs, and in the descent of the great Mahayana system, the sage and founder of the Zen Dharma, was the 29th. This great system kept right on producing these teachers,…

…Velasquez did gain a great insight. She admits herself to your question that at Tashi Mountain she had been the books of Mahayana. That he also must have received some instruction from those acquainted with him, of course. And that the letters of the…

…to the teachers that were peculiarly known, indicate that they also are in some instances almost quenched from the great Mahayana Sutras. Then we have the foundation and perhaps the premises upon which the secret doctrine is based. Premises which had…

…In India, particularly, The motion began there, but it moved almost immediately to China. We find the rise of the concept of the Mahayana, or the great vehicle, the ship of salvation. We refer to certain parts of a church as the nave. And this, of…

…of salvation. We refer to certain parts of a church as the nave. And this, of course, actually means the ship. The Mahayana refers to Buddhism as the ship of the doctrine, and in early Christian religious art, the Christian faith is frequently represented…

…and the individual could be saved in two ways, either by doing good or by repenting evil. This became a basic element in Mahayana Buddhism. And within 200 years, the deity Kuan Yin, the Buddhist equivalent to the concept of Mary, or the Holy Virgin, had…

…been attributed to Samkara Chaya, and these reformations resulted in the complete shift of Buddhism and the rise of the Mahayana or great vehicles. and the principal leaders of that great vehicle movements were contemporaries of Jesus, and lived 600 years…

…mind but of the heart to find out what was wrong and how it can be corrected actually also in worldly things the Mahayana school of Buddhism did not advocate a monastic life for everybody the only individual who should take on a monastic life in…

…or the Great Doctrine. And the Great Doctrine is the teaching of the large path that leads to salvation. It is called the Mahayana School and is separated from the Southern School which is called the Hinayana and is firmly set in Siam or Thailand and…

…to them the life of truth is a monastic existence a concept that also dominated Europe for many hundreds of years The Mahayana, however, the large vehicle, says no. This is not the real answer. The real answer is not that the individual shall perform…

…all is simply based upon the mistaken point of view that for that individual wealth is all when it is not the case what the Mahayana school teaches the individual to do is to stay with his job do the things that he knows he should be doing serve his…

…back because the mistake that would draw us back no longer exists. When this state happens, the Bodhisattvas, according to the Mahayana schools, leave one mistake they purposely leave one shortcoming so that they can come back and serve after this one…

…both of these things happening in the first century AD are not merely coincidental that a very large part of Mahayana Buddhism has been inspired, influenced, directed, and conditioned by contact with Christian principles. So we have another interesting point…

…everything, including self. As a result of this change of perspective, the second school, which became the northern school, the Mahayana, became tremendously important in the growth of Asiatic peoples. One of the simplest examples of this point is the…

…that the Buddhist commandments are rather different from ours but have the same basic ethical implications. But in modern Mahayana Buddhism, does not feel that the great achievement is through renunciation. The Southern Buddhist makes renunciation very strong.…

…moved southward in Asia and has its great centers in Thailand and in Lanka and these areas. The other system, the Mahayana, went northward into Tibet and China and finally into Japan and Korea. In this school, cosmogony is introduced. from the Hindu…

…and finally into Japan and Korea. In this school, cosmogony is introduced. from the Hindu and the days of creation for the Mahayana school are measured much in the same way that Christianity measures creation from the book of Genesis it was the background…