Beliefs about the Buddha in Theravada and the Buddhist Tantra

Abstract

This academic article was to present about the Lord Buddha and his achievement to the land of Buddhism procedures in the original version of Theravada Buddhism and the version of Vajrayana Buddhism evolution. In Theravada Buddhism, the Buddha was the enlightened Lord Buddha who could achieve his enlightenment by himself and establish Buddhism by himself. While Pratyekabuddha could also achieve his enlightenment but he could not establish the Buddhism. During the procedures of the enlightenment, for those who wish to be the Buddha while they were in Bodhisattva position, need to fully practice great merits in three levels, namely; the Ten Supreme Perfections, the Ten Higher Levels of the Supreme Perfections, the 10 Highest Levels of the Supreme Perfections. In the past, there were twenty-three Buddhas. The Buddha of the current Buddhist era was Gautama Buddha and the Buddha in the future would be Ariyameitaiya Buddha. All of them were  enlightened by their self-practice of merit. They had gained some magical power. While the Buddha in Tantra Buddhism Revolution in around 700 B.E., Mantrayana was revealed by Vairocana Buddha and it was disclosed by Nakarachun Buddha in the later time. In the teaching of Tantra Buddhism, Adi Buddha, who was equivalent to be the most high-ranking Hindu God, was able to turn his power of the creativity into the existence of another five Buddhas such as Vairocana etc. In the original Theravada Buddhism, good deeds and bad deeds were clearly separated, while in Tantra Buddhism it is mentioned that both good and bad merits exist within the Lord Buddha. In Bodhisattava in both kind-looking and in unkind-looking Buddha images  were changed due to the reason of the adaptation of the current Buddhist teachings and its method which has trended to adjust to the habits of the Buddhist followers to continue to spread the Buddhist.