中 文

 

Extracted from the website of Buddhist Vajrayana Charity Funds Association and translated (人天乘) into English:

Human and Deva Vehicles

‘Five Vehicles’: A Vehicle is a transportation. (Remark: Vehicle means to carry people across the sea of suffering to reach the shore of enlightenment.) There are Five Vehicles.
 
  Classification Method Achievement
1 Human Vehicle Five Precepts Human Realm
2 Deva Vehicle Ten Wholesomeness (Ten Good Deeds) Heaven Above
3 Sravaka Vehicle (Sound Hearer) Four Noble Truths Four Fruits of Sravaka
4 Pratyeka-Buddha Vehicle
(Those enlightened to conditions)
Twelve Nidanas (twelve links doctrine of Buddhism ) Pratyeka Buddha
5 Bodhisattva Vehicle (Mahayana) Six Paramitas Buddhahood

 

 

 

button