That is not a correct reading of what he
stated
He is stating the Bleach is what first inspired him. This was followed by HxH and Evengelion. He singles out Evangelion as being
steeped in mythology (it is heavily kabalistic) and says that he wanted to do the same, but with Buddhism.
Actually it is and you just proved my point.
Evangelion is “based on Kabbalistic thought” not that the framework of the series centers around. In fact the creator of Evangelion
said that it was a misconception that the series was based on Kabbalistic thought.
So this just proved my point that they’re talking about “
inspirations” here, like they say, rather than the framework of the series like you’re claiming.
Yes, and I disagree heavily with this for information already contextualized in the blog. It's not just "Buddhism existed" it is buddhism existing in a world that shares similar
ontological underpinnings, a world where characters call buddhist scriptures "
textbooks to the soul", etc.
The scan doesn’t prove the claim you’re making. It’s only saying that Tengen has access to Sunyat barriers and the translator note clarified that Sunyata is Buddhist concept of emptiness which all things are made out of. Not that all things in JJK are made out of Sunyata like in Buddhism.
There is no statement that all things are made out of Sunyata in JJK, the author note is simply clarifying what Sunyata means in Buddhism. So no there is no evidence they share the same ontological underpinnings. Simply sharing the name “Sunyata” doesn’t equate to ontologically being the same as one another.
If you want that, you need a statement in the series saying what the translator note says, but the fact that you’re pointing to that scan is particularly strong evidence that you’re extrapolating things here since the translator’s note isn’t part of the series meaning no ontological underpinnings are being shared in the scan you provided.
You keep claiming it doesn't mean they are linked but not providing why that is the case. Tengen quite literally spread
jujutsu and Buddhism side by side and said teachings kicked off the
golden age of Jujutsu. You have to explain why those things would be separate when the text is indicating they are not.
Because it’s not wiki standards to do that and because it’s an extreme extrapolation to do so, something I repeatedly explained and clarified multiple times now with staff supporting that notion. The burden of proof is on you to show they’re 1:1 identically matched, which requires far more evidence to do so. That’s the explanation, that’s the why that’s the case.
This is incorrect. I already stated to you earlier that Nirvana is a state of being.
And that state of being is not clarified to be “one with the whole universe” in the series of JJK, you’re only extrapolating that from Buddhism.
Tengen states their
will dissolved into nothingness and this is backed up by the initial description of
Tengen in the HI arc. Tengen achieving Buddahood by reaching enlightenment which involves dissolvement of the ego and attachment, is tit for tat the concept of nirvana. There is no other way to put this, especially when we know how deep the Buddhist influence goes.
While it obviously don't scale to IRL buddhism Nirvana, it does stand as the concept existing in the JJK verse as a state of oneness that allows one to be
"one with the heavens and Earth" outlining physical and metaphysical aspects of existence. So no I am not extrapolating from the usage of words, these concepts are directly present in the manga proper.
“One with the heavens and the earth” you’re equating to “being one with the whole universe” which is an extrapolation of the usage of the words in Buddhist religion. “Heaven and earth” doesn’t outline physical and metaphysical planes without further clarification. That’s the extrapolation part, that’s the assumption part you’re taking off of a quote alone.
If you “can’t scale to IRL Buddhism” then you can’t use this as a basis to scale in general. You can’t cherry-pick what you’d like to accept to be applicable to JJK regarding Buddhist concepts but also like to ignore as there being differences between the two. You can’t make the claim that Tengen became one with the universe off the basis of “heaven and earth” because then you’re trying to scale to IRL Buddhism. Saying Tengen is “one with the universe” off of a heaven and earth statement is trying to shake to IRL Buddhism.
Incorrect, there are several pieces of evidence that support the idea of Samsara.
- The scene we just saw with Gojo expressly highlights Gege incorporating buddhist reincarnation into the manga with his talk of heading north or south after death.
- Angels religion expressly discuss forced incarnation being an a front to her creed's laws, which we know is a Buddhist sect.
- The cycle of reincarnation is not only limited to humans coming back as curses, but reincarnation in the forms of humans, curses being reincarnated as curses, etc.
- The mechanic by which people are reborn as curses is through holding onto emotions and attachments based on things they experienced in life. This is legitimately the mechanism for Samsara and Karma.
- Kenjaku references the karmic aspect of binding vows when telling Mahito that breaking a vow with another person could result in him turning into a caterpillar.
- The fact that Sukuna, Tengen, [2] and Kenjaku all have ways for extending their consciousness through taking control of or directly incarnating their consciousness into others, these 3 being progenitor's of Jujutsu knowledge in the world.
- Sukuna's body being preserved over 1,000 years through the usage of Sokushinbutsu ritual
- Prison Realm making explicit reference of Buddhist afterlife realms
None of this goes against the idea I presented because your claim was “Tengen can’t be the earth because it’s trapped in samsara.” That was the statement you made and that statement doesn’t exist in the series and the quotes you’re presenting now doesn’t show that. Kenjaku sayinng karmic punishments exist in a binding vow=/=“earth being trapped in samsara.”
Being “trapped in samsara” has one meaning in Buddhism and no meaning in JJK because JJK has made no mention of “earth being caught in samsara” and to use that as a reason for why Tengen can’t be fused with the earth, has no basis found in the series.
That's not the only evidence for reincarnation being a thing in the verse.
That’s not what was being argued, please reread what I said because your claim was that the reason Tengen can’t have merged with the earth was because it was “caught in samsara” but this explanation doesn’t exist in the manga, therefore it doesn’t prove the claim you’re making.
I don't when the evidence provided already tells me that Tengen achieved an enlightenment which cause dissolution of the self and caused him to become one with the universe. That's a pretty explicit means by which Tengen accomplished his feat, and to ignore the coinciding ontological buddhist underpinnings in addition, would just be ignoring evidence Imo.
There is no “one with the universe” that is again an extrapolation of the claims being made. You’re extrapolating the words “heaven and earth” to mean “one with the physical and metaphysical plane” despite no clarification on that or concrete statement made about that in the series. Not once is it mentioned or explained like that, you’re coming to this conclusion off the lines “heaven and earth” and taking ideas from Buddhism to place into JJK.
We're not gonna agree on this because I explicitly worked backwards from what concepts were already found in the series. You keep saying none of these concepts are found in the series but my evidence and blog both prove those things are foundational to the verses ontology. Which is why I've been asking you to respond to that.
People have responded and explained time and time and time again why this is not the case, the most recent post above explains why this is not the case. The evidence in your blog has many issues presented with it and the evidence you present doesn’t support the claims you make.
I mean, the author took inspiration, elements from Buddhism sure i get it, and all the "similar case" like the cycle of rebirth is just authors took some elements from Buddhism, then add to his to his story, cool, that mean he took elements from the myth then incorporated into his work, but again that isn't mean the verse is 1:1 with the actual one, no offend but what you do is literally extrapolating that: hey this verse have some element from Buddhism and the author said he took inspiration from it, so it should be the same as real life Buddhism. Then process to give the verse's abilities hax that they not even show in verse. Sure we, or at least i understand there are Buddhist element in the verse, we don't deny that, if those abilities show the same feat as the real life myth, we don't mind agreeing and giving hax. The problem is from what i read the thread, they don't, you give them the hax simply because it have term or name from Buddhism, and like i have said before, no one gonna agree with that