唯識一乘에 의한 迴向菩提聲聞의 考察 ‒ 種性差別論과 관련하여 ‒

Abstract

This article is to examine the meaning of “Enlightenment-Transferring Śravāka” and the process of attaining Buddhahood through the “One Vehicle” of Yogācāra Buddhism. In Vijñāptimātra, the true meaning of the “One Vehicle” is to make sentient beings realize the nature of Mahāyāna and achieve Buddhahood. The Yogācāra School regards this to be the process for the Śravāka to attain Buddhahood. In this process, the Yogācāra School focused on the Bodhisattva path which says sentient beings should focus only on practice rather than focus on the identity of the nature of the principle achieved. Once the Bodhisattva path is applied to the Three Vehicles, each vehicle is supposed to have its own gotra. The Three Vehicles advance to the stage of the Mahāyānan nirvana because of the inherent “non-defiled seed,” the true meaning of the One Vehicle. Finally, the reason the Yogācāra School expounds the principle of the One Vehicle is not to say whether the One Vehicle and the Three Vehicles are real or provisional, but to reveal the path of a Mahāyāna Bodhisattva which shows the real way of accomplishing Buddhahood through the case of the Enlightenment-Transferring Śravāka. What we have to focus on here is that a Enlightenment-Transferring Śravāka is in a part of being matured. The subject to mature is Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. Namely, we know that sentient beings must make the journey to attain Buddhahood before becoming Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.