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Mahayana is the teachings of the Buddha. Why would you have extreme difficulties over Pure Land being classified as Mahayana.
It should be classified Mahayana because the Buddha's teachings are Mahayana.
Comment by hau4300 at 04/02/2025 at 03:16 UTC*
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I have no difficulty understanding the Diamond Sutra at all. It is natural and easy to me. And Mahayana is supposed to be teaching or give guidance about attaining the wisdom of understanding reality. I found the Amitayurdhyana Sutra unnecessary because it does not teach us anything about "wisdom" and reality. In fact, I found it contradicting the basic principle of not to contemplate reality using our human senses and perceptions. All the descriptions about the so-called contemplation of the things in the so-called pure land of bliss are based on human perceptions, like the sounds and the colors of different objects. BTW, separating and classifying the totality of our reality into "individual" objects as if we can actually "differentiate" these so-called objects of contemplation is against Buddha's teaching. The only reason why we "think" the totality of reality can be "separated" and "divided" into separable "objects" is because of "discriminating mind" aka "vikalpa".