Talk:Buddha

Transmigration into One
I'm trying to build up enough data for an independant article on this ability, but I can't seem to find decent background information. I've done a fair bit of research, but all I keep finding are inconsistencies which I fear is all I'll get without a better understanding of the religion Vairocana stems from. From what I've researched thus far, I've reached a few walls.

Transmigration is pretty much reincarnation, which does appear to exist in certain sects of Buddhism, but not all of them. With the original Guatama Buddha teaching that no such thing as reincarnation existed. After that it gets a lot more complicated than I care to explain, but simply put, the transmigration part is confusing.

The "Into One" part I've generally taken at face value, reincarnation into one, as in a singular whole of some kind. I haven't found anything in my research that speaks towards a sort of collective consciousness or universal whole, but I have found two other things that may be the root of it.

"The Shingon Buddhist monk, Dohan, regarded the two great Buddhas, Amida and Vairocana, as one and the same Dharmakaya Buddha and as the true nature at the core of all beings and phenomena." This extract implies that Dharmakaya, an entity that is essentially one and the same as Vairocana is the root of all things. Which could be the "One" referenced.

The second and more likely interpretation in my opinion given the subject matter, is the concept of Śūnyatā, which is generally translated as "Emptyness". Essentially it's the root of the idea that nothing is permanent, that everyone is essentially destined to cease existing with the exception of enlightened beings like Vairocana. Given that this is an attack that is an instant game over attack, reducing everything to nothing more or less, I think this is a likely interpretation.

If anyone can give me a better idea on the Buddhist concepts, or even the literal japanese translations of the Kanji or something, just more data to help me make sense of this I would greatly appreciate it and it goes towards improving the wiki if I can get the relevant information. Hawkeye2701 (talk) 00:11, July 14, 2012 (UTC)