Concept

Original enlightenment

Overview

East Asian Buddhist doctrine

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He points out that, until recent times, the religion of Japan was Buddhism, to the practical exclusion of every other. There had been, in very ancient times, a native religion called Shinto, and it had lingered on obscurely. But it is only during the last forty years or so that Shinto has been erected into a State religion, and has been reconstructed so as to suit modern requirements.[48] It is, of course…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
States what Original enlightenment is.
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Now the image was set up rather more than three hundred years after the Nirvâna of Buddha, which may be referred to the reign of king P'ing of the Chow dynasty. According to this account we may say that the diffusion of our great doctrines in the East began from the setting up of this image. If it had not been through that Maitreya, the great spiritual master who is to be the successor of the Sâkya, who could have…
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Original enlightenment; the term itself is not named.
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They dedicate their lives to the study of reason, and maintain that he who knows reason in its source will possess universal science, remedies for every ill and all virtue; he will also have obtained a supernatural power of being able to fly to heaven and of not dying.[13]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Original enlightenment; the term itself is not named.
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Philosophers who discussed Original enlightenment

Wonhyo

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Place in the tradition

Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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