Sunday, February 28, 2010

Lotus Sutra - Chapter Sixteen : The Life Span of Tathagata : Feb-10

In the Life Span Chapter, Shakyamuni Buddha revealed that he has in the long past attained Buddhahood and has been preaching for the people since. Due to the capacity of the people, he has deployed the expedient means for the sake of the people to understand buddhism. Another important point he revealed in this chapter is that life is eternal and there is no such thing as extinction in life.

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