대승 大般涅槃經의 수행관.

Abstract

The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra has been known to symbolize the final departure of the Buddha. Indeed, this text seem to be better understood, if we regard it as a text which shows and explains how we attain nirvāṇa through various practical methods. The underlined messages of the Mahāparinirvāṇasūṇtra could be equalitarianism in which there is no difference between human beings including the Buddha. Within the Mahāyāna framework, it can be explained through the theory of the Buddha nature in which every human being is equipped with the it. The aim of this paper is to strengthen people's pursuit of being in the way towards nirvāṇa where there is no more sufferings and unsatisfactoriness. From the practical point of view, following the Buddhist monastic code(vinaya) could be one of the most important things which should be noted at first. Without obeying it, there is neither the development of cultivating meditation nor the realization of the limitless wisdom. Through practicing it, human beings can recover their own Buddha nature which has long been ignored or unnoticed from the mind. The love and compassion of the Buddha can be achieved through the practice of the fourfold limitless mind. It explains the way towards the awakening through giving the fourfold limitless mind among every living being around. In theory, one should practice it with the assurance that the fourfold limitless mind is the same as the mind of Tathāgata and as nirvāṇa. The key to actualize the pure land seems to be based on the realization of the Buddha nature within everyone's mind. In this respect the practical theory of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra could be the actualization of the pure land where everyone is awakened through realising the Buddha nature within their mind.