Buddhakarakadhamma : Transitional process for Buddhahood

Abstract

     All living beings undergo endless cycles of samsara or the plane’s existence of snare in various realms and forms of life, due to ignorance (Avidyā) and lust (Taṇhā) continuously driven to the cycle of rebirth and death. It's hard to count the previous lives. This saṃsāra has appearing at the beginning and the end unable to know. The Lord Buddha declared his resolution to liberation for a supreme of Noble Truth, achieved to escape from the snare of the cycle of birth and rebirth and having the freedom that is Nirvana. Consequently, he has destroyed the reincarnation cycle and leads to the process of becoming a Buddhahood which is called “Buddhakarakadhamma”, which means the Dharma that makes someone become the Buddha. There are three elements of Buddhakarakadhamma: (1) the accumulation of ten pārami (perfections) in the past life (2) the full wisdom in the present life (3) the reach of Paticcasamuppada (Paṭiccasamuppāda). Therefore, the Buddhakarakadharma is the most significant part of Paticcasamuppada, which is very helpful for Bodhimakanyan (perfect knowledge or wisdom of a Buddha) and the Bodhiphonyan (transcendental nature of the Buddha's spiritual attainment), it is called Asavakkhayarñäna: (knowledge of the exhaustion of all mental intoxicants). There are three dharma are two internal factors: (1) Ten pārami in the past life (2) wisdom in the present life, and only one external factor, known as Paticcasamuppada (Paṭiccasamuppāda). The transitional process for Bodhisattva to be Buddhahood will be completed when these three elements are complete.