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Old 07-17-2011, 09:51 PM   #6
SOgLak

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c. As a short note here, (not meant to open another debate here) is that there are two prevailing views on this second part of the Mahayana Canon:
i. the traditional view by its adherents is that its origins are from the Buddha Himself as the 'continued higher teachings for the Bodhisattva Path'
ii. and the second opinion seems to suggest that they stem from affirmed realisations of Disciples and Masters on a Buddha's teaching and the term 'Buddhavacana' or word of the Buddha is not necessarily restricted to or constricted with sole reference to the prevailing dispensation of Sakyamuni Buddha, the Original Teacher and Founder in our world system but also Buddhas from other world systems, of which our world is only one.
Also not meant to open a debate, but aside from the two views mentioned, there is the fact that the Mahayana Suttas are known to be not the words or teachings of the man we know as "the Buddha".
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