• zimy@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Mahayana can be pretty out there too.

    Siddhattha overhears these doubts being expressed so he takes of his clothes, spreads his legs and shows the ladies what is there - and what was there is his kosohitavatthaguyha glowing with a golden light. Then a lotus appeared and from its centre a baby boy’s penis emerges which gradually grows into an adult’s. More lotuses appear, each with a bodhisattva in it. The sutra doesn’t record what the ladies-in-waiting said about this extraordinary exhibition

    https://sdhammika.blogspot.com/2010/08/strangest-sutra-of-them-all.html>