Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 2. The lineage of teachings are discussed in this series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 1. We begin a short series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – The Thus Come One. Our invocation of the Engine of Life. By chanting the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra, we manifest directly the three bodies of Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – The Three Vehicles. Three vehicles refers to Shakyamunibuddha’s teachings evolving to the ability and capacity of his audience over his teaching life. There is in reality, only One Great Teaching. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – The Three Realms (Spheres) of Existence. A discussion illuminating the perceptions and identifications of the mind from energy into physicality and Samsara delusions of separateness. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – The Three Periods of the Dharma. A discussion illuminating the stages of enlightenment teachings leading to the Later Age and the doctrines of Nichiren. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – The Three Clarities. Early teachings for Arhats become the Mahayana of Three Illuminations of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Third Eye. The GoHonzon. The objective of our practice to open and experience our Buddha potential. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Teacher. Is the great power of our sentient mind to take our self awareness of the experience of the engine of life to clearly understand the manifestations and energies that instantiate in moment to moment flow of momentum. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…

Buddhism Reference – Tathagata. Simply put is the Potential inherent in the entire engine of the Cosmos. Tathagata is the inherent potential for the instantiation of Buddha consciousness. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Sravaka. A student or monk and a “Hearer of the Buddha’s meaning”. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Single Minded Buddha. Happiness in this Life is a Gosho written to remind us that our life condition is always under our control via our Buddha consciousness. We chant to awaken and maintain our attitude and intent with regard to our maximal life potential at all times. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/ho…

Buddhism Reference – Sovereign. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is your personal Sovereign act to Love your personal experience of the Engine of Life. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Singlemindedly Contemplate Buddha. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is to chant the Daimoku. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. Contemplate, Awaken, Open the eye of, Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Seven Jewels. From earliest teachings and throughout, and in the culminating teachings of the Lotus, Shakyamunibuddha offered traits and human skills to be purified into powers that are analogs to the characters of the Daimoku. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…

What is Consciousness? Quantum Life Field of Potential. Moment-to-moment, this field instantiates 3000 realms of potential experience for our minds to sort and choose to adopt. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm How to use this study resource : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : htt…

Buddhism Reference – Secret. A concept, teaching, or insight that requires foundational teachings and understandings in order to fully grasp or appreciate.” “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Save or Rescue. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body and ego. A term not useful to Buddhist practice. To “quote” from ShakyamuniBuddha, “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…

Buddhism Reference – Sarira. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body after death and cremation. A term not useful to Buddhist practice. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Samadhi. An ancient term used to describe and ascribe various aspects and qualities of meditative practices to focus the mind. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – SadDharmaPundarikaSutra. The Sanskrit title of the Doctrine of the Dharma of the Wonderful Lotus Blossom, in Japanese the, Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Refuge or Taking Refuge. Buddhism is about the mind. So “refuge” in Buddhist teaching is about maintaining a mind-state of Buddha, compassion, and support for the path to enlightenment. This is a refuge in mind and out thoughts of attitude and intent expressed as actions toward Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Three…

Buddhism Reference – Pure Land. A predominantly East Asian Buddhist sectarian division of schools maintaining the ancient traditions of reincarnations in misinterpretations of Buddhist teachings. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Pratyekabuddha. Self-realized in the realm of Realization but not yet capable of instructing others on the Buddha way. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Prakrit. A set of Indio-Aryan languages based on Sanskrit but varied for particular castes and subcultures of the Indian geography, spoken by ShakyamuniBuddha as the oral transmission of his teachings. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Prajnaparamita. One of the vows we take to perfect our Buddha knowledge in the pursuit of Buddha wisdom. This is the clarity of full understanding of all phenomena as it happens. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Prajna. Our mind development through Buddha awareness of the true aspect of experience and all phenomena. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhist – 6 (six) Penetrations. The purification of the Skandhas and the mind of the first 6 consciousnesses as qualities or “Marks” of the Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Parinirvana. Nirvana of extinction rather than the counterfeit or semblance nirvana as a temporary motivator for early students. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhist – Cycle of Life. The universal cosmology of potential to quiescence. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Parent. The Parenting, Teacher-ing, Sovereign-ing of Buddhism is the intimacy of all life, of all sentient beings in search of their own path to Buddha. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – 10 Mahayana Paramita. Compassion and its many forms explored as skills for the Bodhisattva Path. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

3 Kinds of Practice. Nichiren gives us advice for steadfastness in our practice in the Gosho, “Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra”. http://threefoldlotus.com/study/ThreeKindsPractice.pdf E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Paramita. The Bodhisattva building of self-behavioral skills for reason, honesty, and truth for one’s mind of awareness and as it applies to the understanding of others. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Outflows. Expelling energies using the Samsaric mind of cravings and clinging, thwarting those energies from manifesting Buddha. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Omniscience. A term used by translators to try to capture the illumination of the mind of Buddhahood. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Non-Origination. An early teaching term used often to equate ideas of emptiness, the void, self/not-self to “Destiny” or karma as immutable. Nichiren and the Lotus directly confront and destroy this idea with the invocation of the Engine of Life to alter, to influence all karma by our actions. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – No…

Buddhism Reference – Eternal. All phenomena are momentum of energy. Moment-to-moment instantiations of potential energies arising, abiding, and dissolving from and back to quiescence. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Nagarjuna. One of the most important Buddhist scholars and founder of the “Middle Way” and “Emptiness” doctrines of the Madhyamaka School. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Nagas. An ancient term from Hindu mythologies of a creature relegated to the underworlds by Brahma; these dragons or serpents are used as helpful protectors of living beings in Buddhism. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Monkey Mind. Our Samsaric Mind as it relentlessly jumps from one distraction to the next for self pleasure and emotional rewards or fears. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Middle Way - part-2. Dependent Origination is a cornerstone of the Middle Way in that it describes in language the incalculable interactions and influences of constant instantiations of potential upon each and every other from moment to moment in our experience of life. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlot…

Buddhism Reference – Middle Way. The Dharma Path between the two extremes of Self indulgence and Self mortification or Eternal self versus Annihilation. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Miao-lo. Japanese name for Zhanran, the sixth patriarch of the Tien-Tai Chinese sect of Buddhism. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Merit. Achieving the Bodhisattva Path through our interactions of thought, word, and deed. We build our life condition by our Daimoku and practice to develop our mind, the minds of others, and our dignity and respect. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…

Buddhism Reference – Mara. The influences of our imagination and minds of Samsara using craving and clinging as obstacles and distraction from our enlightenment. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Maitreya. The future Buddha. Also, the future Buddha as you and I accomplish our Bodhisattva Mahasattva practice to inspire others to the Lotus Sutra method of Self-Realization. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Mahasattva. A Great Person, a great Bodhisattva, a Bodhisattva of great accomplished practice. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – MahaPrajnaParamita. The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras written to promote personal deep insight into the teachings and method of Buddhist thought. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain

Buddhism Reference – Madhyamaka. Nagarjuna’s Middle Way of practice and the piercing perception of Sunyata. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmDi Sylvain Chamberlain