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=====Mahayana Buddhism=====
{{Further|Mahayana}}
Mahayana Buddhist schools de-emphasize the traditional view (still practiced in [[Theravada]]) of the release from individual Suffering ([[Duḥkha|Duhkha]]) and attainment of Awakening ([[Nirvana]]). In Mahayana, the Buddha is seen as an eternal, immutable, inconceivable, [[omnipresent]] being. The fundamental principles of Mahayana doctrine are based on the possibility of universal liberation from suffering for all beings, and the existence of the transcendent [[Buddha-nature]], which is the eternal Buddha essence present, but hidden and unrecognised, in all living beings.<ref>{{cite web |last1=University |first1=© Stanford |title="The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism" |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/chief-characteristics-and-doctrines-mahayana-buddhism |website=The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute |access-date=7 March 2023 |language=en |date=17 February 2015}}</ref>

Philosophical schools of Mahayana Buddhism, such as [[zen|Chan/Zen]] and the [[Vajrayana]] Tibetan and Shingon schools, explicitly teach that [[Bodhisattva]] should refrain from full liberation, allowing themselves to be reincarnated into the world until all beings achieve enlightenment. Devotional schools such as [[Pure Land Buddhism]] seek the aid of celestial buddhas—individuals who have spent lifetimes accumulating positive karma, and use that accumulation to aid all.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arana |first1=Juan Hincapié |title=A SEED IN AMITABHA'S HAND- Pure Land Buddhism's path to peace in this life and the next by Juan Hincapie Arana |url=https://www.academia.edu/52849607 |website=Amazon KDP |access-date=7 March 2023 |date=1 January 2021}}</ref>