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  • Set high along the right wall, a fourth-century stucco head looks down, hair piled in a topknot indicating buddhahood, while at the back of the room a frieze from the late second to third century shows the Buddha teaching.

    At the Intersection of Opposites Lee Lawrence 2011

  • Those who are mainly interested in the transcendental siddhi of buddhahood are given all eleven initiations.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • Cilu realized that, in general, in order to achieve buddhahood in a single lifetime he would need the Mantrayana, and in particular, that he would need the clarifications of these doctrines contained in the Bodhisattva commentaries.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • Dharma-the worldly and transcendental initiations-and prophesied that they would obtain buddhahood, then he taught them the Paramadibuddha, the twelve thousand verse Kalachakra Basic Tantra.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • Furthermore, at the resultant state of buddhahood, the truly compassionate activities of a buddha can come about spontaneously without any effort only in relation to sentient beings, because they are the recipients and beneficiaries of those enlightened activities.

    Training the Mind: Verse 1 2010

  • Even though Hinayanists do not engage in their path intending to obtain Buddhahood, their path is in fact a means for ultimately leading such people to the stage of buddhahood.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • Hinayana paths do not lead directly to buddhahood, it is taught that followers of the Hinayana do in fact eventually enter the Mahayana and obtain buddhahood.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • The first seven verses of the Eight Verses for Training the Mind deal with the practices associated with cultivating the method aspect of the path such as compassion, altruism, aspiration to attain buddhahood, and so on.

    Training the Mind 2010

  • This initiation empowers the disciple to obtain perfect buddhahood in the form of Shri

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

  • Thus, the Buddha's demonstrations of the path are strictly means to lead sentient beings to buddhahood.

    Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2010

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