Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
This very body becomes Buddha — through the Three Mysteries of body, speech, and mind, the practitioner is identical with Mahavairocana
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | not engaged |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Infinite, relational. The Dharmakaya is eternal and timeless; temporal existence is the conditioned realm. The possibility of "this very existence" enlightenment collapses the temporal distance between samsara and nirvana.
Space
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Infinite, relational, non-local. The six great elements pervade all space. The cosmos is the body of Mahavairocana — every point is a mandala.
Matter
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Infinite, emergent from the Dharmakaya. The six great elements constitute all phenomena. Matter is not opposed to enlightenment but is its very medium: "this very body becomes Buddha."
Observer
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Both embodied and cosmic. The practitioner's body, speech, and mind become the Three Mysteries. Multiple time- and space-instances: the enlightened practitioner transcends ordinary spatiotemporal limitation. Knowledge is immediate in the enlightened state.
Energy
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Infinite, substantival. Mahavairocana's ceaseless preaching and creative activity are the energy that sustains all phenomena. Conserved and reversible.
Information
Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence
Every sound is mantra, every form is mandala. The cosmos is saturated with meaningful information — the Dharmakaya's self-expression. Substantival, conserved, continuous.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The claim of immediate Buddhahood contradicts the mainstream Mahayana path of innumerable lifetimes. Kukai resolves this by distinguishing esoteric from exoteric teaching, but this raises the question of why the Buddha taught an inferior path. The elaborate ritual apparatus required for the Three Mysteries creates a tension with the claim of immediate realisation: if enlightenment is always already present, why are complex initiations and rituals needed to access it?