Identify a short passage from the Bhagavad Gita excerpt that represents Hindu thought and explain what this passage means.

Analyze why early followers of Buddhism did not believe images of Buddha should be displayed, yet later Buddhists in China and Japan constructed huge sculptures of the Buddha and bodhisattvas.

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Analyze why early followers of Buddhism did not believe images of Buddha should be displayed, yet later Buddhists in China and Japan constructed huge sculptures of the Buddha and bodhisattvas.

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Analyze why early followers of Buddhism did not believe images of Buddha should be displayed, yet later Buddhists in China and Japan constructed huge sculptures of the Buddha and bodhisattvas.

The true Buddha is formless. The dharmakaya is that aspect of the Buddha which has eternal and unchanging existence. If you ask where the absolute Buddha is, he is nowhere else but there -- in the absolute nature of the Mind! The absolute state of rig pa is where the Buddha is fully accomplished as primordial wisdom and empty space.

But most people can't relate to this so later on people started creating images of the sambhogakaya on which to meditate. The word "sambhoga" means reward. When a highly advanced Bodhisattva cultivates religious practises, which are likened to seeds, they bear fruit (have their reward) in his attainment of Buddha-hood. In sambhogakaya form, the Buddha appears, in all his glory, surrounded by hundreds of attendant Devas and Bodhisattvas, and dwelling in his Pure Land. Two examples of sambhogakaya Buddhas are Amitabha, who lives in his Pure Land, Sukhavati, and the Buddha Aksobhya, who lives in his Pure Land Abhirati.

The form the Buddha assumes, for a while, in order to teach sentient beings is "Nirmana" meaning phantom or ghost, a form that is an illusion, temporary and without absolute substance. A form that he assumes in order to resemble those persons he is preaching to. This is the form of the historic Buddha, the Buddha Sakyamuni. The real form of the historic Buddha Sakyamuni, who was born in North India, who attained Enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, and who died at the age of eighty, is actually that of the dharmakaya.
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