Can there be "one day becoming a fully-awakened Buddha" after Parinibbana?
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The Buddha declare to venerable Sâriputra in the Lotus Sutra that he will become a Buddha one day as it read below, but Sariputta has achieved Parinibbana. Can there be becoming a fully-awakened Buddha one day after Parinibbana?
> ...Again, Sâriputra, at a future period, after innumerable,
> inconceivable, immeasurable Æons, when thou shalt have learnt the true
> law of hundred thousand myriads of kotis of Tathâgatas, showed
> devotion in various ways, and achieved the present Bodhisattva-course,
> thou shalt become in the world a Tathâgata, &c., named Padmaprabha,
> endowed with science and conduct, a Sugata, a knower of the world, an
> unsurpassed tamer of men, a master of gods and men, a Lord Buddha.
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Jan 22, 2017, 12:12 PM
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