Visualisation Meditation

Question 1

How to become a Bodhisattva

Answer 1

Practice six perfections

Question 2

What do they do after enlightenment?

Answer 2

Out of compassions, they stay in cycle of Samsara to help others achieve it.

Question 3

What are earthly Bodhisattvas.

Answer 3

Reborn into world to help others.

Question 4

What are transcendent Bodhisattvas?

Answer 4

Spiritual beings beyond time and space, they may appear in the world in different forms and Buddhists may pray to them in times of need

Question 5

Who is visualisation done by

Answer 5

Mahayana Buddhists

Question 6

What is thangka

Answer 6

A detailed pairing of a Buddha or Bodhisattva they look at before meditation.

Question 7

Medicine Buddha:

Answer 7

May visualise Medicine Buddha to help heal them and reduce suffering.

Question 8

Avolokiteshvara

Answer 8

Related to compassion. Visualising this helps Buddhists to develop their own sense of compassion which is considered to be an important quality to cultivate in order to achieve enlightenment.

Question 9

Amitabha

Answer 9

Worshipped by Pure Land Buddhists in hope he will help them to be reborn in pure land and achieve enlightenment quicker.

Question 10

Mandala

Answer 10

May symbolise universe or pure land or Buddha - detailed painting brushed away to represent anicca.