Master Bhagavan Zhi-Ji Vimalakirti, He is not only your great Master, but actually a great Master for all of Buddhism. He was born in China and came to the Southern part of the World and takes Buddhism to all parts of the world. We very much appreciate His work. We are different traditions, but we are brothers. One family with different brothers, and our Master is like a great brother. We call this great brother our Tantrayana brother. And I am called the Theravada brother. Another we call Mahayana brother, and then also have a Vajrayana brother, and then we have another brother called Zen. These five brothers have different sons, for example Vajrayana has Kagyupa, Karmapa, Ningmapa, Gerupa, they are the sons of Vajrayana. Even the Theravada brother has two sons. They are called Dharmaute (長老部) and Mahamikaya (大眾部) . Vajrayana and Mahayana even have different sons, even Taiwan you can see 佛光山、千佛山. The same for Korean Zen, Japanese Zen and Vietnamese Zen. About Tantrayana I do not know much.
薄伽梵 智及維摩詰 師尊,祂不僅是你們的偉大的大師,也是所有佛教的偉大的大師。 祂在中國出生,然後來到世界的南面, 再將佛教傳到世界不同的地方。我們非常欣賞(感激)祂的工作。 我們是不同的傳統,但我們都是兄弟。一個有不同兄弟的家庭,而 師尊就像我們的大哥哥。我們把這位大哥哥, 稱為我們的怛荼羅的兄弟。而我就稱為上座部的兄弟。 另一個我們稱為大乘的兄弟,我們亦有一個金剛乘的兄弟, 然後又有一個兄弟稱為禪。這五個兄弟有不同的兒子, 例如金剛乘有噶舉巴、寧瑪巴、格魯巴,他們是金剛乘的兒子。 就是上座部兄弟也有兩個兒子。他們是稱為長老部和大眾部。 金剛乘和大乘甚至有不同的兒子,你在台灣可以看見有佛光山、 千佛山。韓國的禪宗也是一樣,有日本禪和越南的禪。 對怛荼羅佛教,我則知道不多。 |