After a more thorough study of the Long Life Sutra and the World Universe as Sutra, it seems evident that although Mahayana Buddhism is based on the teachings of the traditional Pali Canon, it has a more broad emphasizes philosophical investigations; while managing to create a Buddhism more accessible to all. In their own ways, both Sutras highlight the fact that Mahayana Buddhism is more lay-friendly than the traditional Pali Canon, while maintaining an important role for monks and nuns. Perhaps the clearest example of this is presented in the “Sutra of the Entire Universe.” According to the Sutra, all beings possess within themselves the knowledge and enlightenment of Buddhahood. This pure core is simply buried beneath or shrouded in the deluded minds of the imperfect being (107-World). In other words, every being is capable of attaining Buddhahood as the truth resides within each individual, however, it can only be achieved when they “abandon their deluded and contrary views.” It is only then that “unhindered knowledge” will arise within them (107,108-World). The sutras also clarify the idea of ​​the Bodhisattva, those who have achieved awakening and refrain from entering Nirvana to help others along the path. For example, the Tathāgata is described as having “penetrating wisdom, and was endowed with a perfectly pure divine eye” (109). The Tathāgata has already found knowledge and truth within himself and is also able to see that the same wisdom is present within every being. He finds it strange that each being cannot see the truth within and therefore takes it upon himself to "teach these beings so that they may fully awaken into the Noble Path" (world 109). This is known as the “tenth insight of…… middle of paper……, the Mahayana tradition as a whole is more philosophical than the Pali canons. The Mahayana introduces the idea of ​​celestial Bodhisattvas, capable of doing extraordinary things. In the Long Life Sutra, Buddhas become teachers of “gods and humans” while living in a realm between nirvana and samsara: the Buddha fields (424-425-long life). Mahayana Buddhism extends the traditionally accepted notion of reality. It is for this reason that the “Sutra of the Entire Universe” presents the knowledge of Buddhahood as the core of a deluded being (world 109). In other cases it is compared to a womb wrapped in defilements that must be torn apart. The Pali Canons may be a fundamental part of Mahayana Buddhism, but the Mahayana sutras go a step further in asking philosophical questions and reinterpreting teachings and ideas found in the tradition.