My answer is totally different from your answer
4) Amitabha used to be human
called Dharmakara and
He attained Buddhahood 10 mahakalpas ago. He's already
a Buddha before Gautama.
My highlighted one is definitely wrong .Whoever get four stages
of enligtenments of nibbana, he never comes back to suffering life
of any 31 abodes (heaven, pureland,hell,animal,human life). If he
is already a buddha before Gautama, he is not in pureland.He is
definitely in Nibbana.
He's able to teached the
four Arahant stages of enlightenments
Amitabha is in pureland .This means he is waiting the time to
become buddha in the future. Before Amitabha become Buddha, how can
he teach four stages of enlightenments? If Amitabha know the four
stages of enlightenments, he already become Buddha.If Amitabha
becomes Buddha, he is not staying in pureland.definitely in
Nibbana.
All the answers should be relevant in Dhamma.
One day, When Gautama Buddha and his group of
Sangha(monks) arrive to mountain called Waebula (ancient name),
Buddha told his group of
Sangha(monks) about history of Waebula mountain.Before Gautama
Buddha becomes buddha, at the moment of previous Cathapha Buddha ,
the people near the mountain takes 3 days to walk from the bottom
of mountain to top of mountain.When Gautama becomes Buddha , the
people near the mountain takes 4 days to walk from the bottom of mountain to top of
mountain.Buddha said the mountain becomes piled up with the
decomposed bones and ashes of dead tree, dead animals and dead
human.The climate also modified the surface of
earth.
1) The duration time between previous Cathapha Buddha and
Gautama Buddha is you have to wait for the level of earth ground
will pile up to which you take 1=(4-3) day to walk from earth
ground level at Cathapha's time to earth ground level at
Gautamma 's time.It cannot be counted by years.
2)Let say the best chance to meet the Amitabha Buddha, When the
Amitabha become Buddha , you are in pureland or in heaven.While you
stay in pureland or heaven, you change your mind to meet Amitabha
Buddha, because I like to enjoy the pleasure of all the sensible
things and I don't want to listen his Dhamma to go Nibbana.
Between the time Gautama Buddha and Cathapha Buddha, you can
commit very bad evil Karma.Gautama Buddha Dhamma are left for 5000
years. 2560 years already passed through and has been over. Now
(5000-2560) =2440 years still left for the present and future
people to practice his Dhamma. After 2440 years will be over in the
future,what will happen in the world? Nobody can teach you how to
go to Nibbana.Hence most people will go through the wrong
Dhamma.Almost all people will go to hell after they die.
3) You have to die with amount of your decomposed bones and
ashes piled up becomes mountain between present Gautama 's time and
next Amitabha Buddha.The amount of bones and ashes are counted in
human life only. You have to go through animal, hell, etc.Can't
imagine this amount of suffering.
Because of very frighening suffering in cycles of counterless
lifes in the coming future, Theravada Buddhism rejected the
wrong path to go heaven or pureland.Some of the famous Sayadaw (
Arahat monk) from myanmar want to go nibbha in present life
and don't want to go through very frighening suffering in
cycles of countless lifes in the coming future.They already have
practised and meditated in the forest and already proofed to people
with their Dhamma teaching and evidence of their body
relics.
Sorry, what you wrote may be according to pali canon, but not
according to Mahayana canon. In mahayana, All Buddha have the
triple bodies. They are the embodiment of truth, embodiment of
nirvanic bliss and the manifestation bodies. the manifestation
bodies still re-enter the 31 realms to deliver sentient beings.
manifestation bodies can be in any form like human, animals, devas,
arahants, bodhisattvas etcs.
i don't think nirvana is
about extinction/annihilation. extinction of
passion/3 poisons yes. Buddha or Pali use fire to explain
nirvana. like fire, it's somewhere out there, yet when conditions
are right, it'll still appear. Pureland also have this nature.
So Amitabha achieved Buddhahood ten (maha)kalpas ago is
definitely Correct as stated in Amitabha Sutra.
"Moreover, Shariputra, since
Amitabha realized Buddhahood, ten kalpas have
passed. --Amitabha Sutra
what "appear" in Pureland is just
the manifestation body. embodiment of nirvanic bliss is
Amitayus.
Moreover in the Lotus Sutra Chapter16. even Gautama is still
dwelling "here". we cannot see Him is because of our defiled
mind.
So they enter the Buddha
Way.
And throughout these limitless eons,
In order to save living beings,
I expediently manifest Nirvana.
But in truth I do not pass into quiescence.
I remain here, always speaking the Dharma.
I always stay right here,
And using the power of spiritual penetrations,
I cause inverted living beings,
Although near me, not to see me.
The multitudes see me as passing into quiescence.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060519131953/www.buddhistdoor.com/resources/sutras/lotus/sources/lotus16.htm
Noted that to enjoy the pleasure of all the sensible things in
Pureland, won't lead one to Pureland...period! it'll only lead to
heaven, not pureland/nirvana. pls don't mix pureland with heaven.
it's misinterpretation.
Also if ordinary people are to sit beside Buddha, what ordinary
people see is samsara, but what Buddha see is "Pureland". When the
mind is pure, the land is pure. Buddha achieve Enlightenment at the
age of 35, and during 35 to parinirvana, He's dwelling in Puremind,
Pureland.
Pureland is non-conceptual, Equality, Serene, neither form nor
formless, and neither suffering nor pleasant. why it's called
"Land" of "Ultimate Bliss"?
Further, good sons, there are
three kinds of sensation: first, painful sensation; second,
pleasant sensation; third, sensation that is neither painful nor
pleasant. It is said that what is neither painful nor pleasant is
in fact painful. Although nirvana/(Pureland) is neither
painful nor pleasant, it is called great pleasure. Because
it is great pleasure, it is called great nirvana.
--- MahaNirvana Sutra
It'll be best to leave the external label of "Nibanna or
Pureland" aside and really see it's content.
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