I would be interested if there exists in any traditional school of Buddhism a doctrinal discourse about the necessity of Buddhahood.

I am interested in this because in Islamic mysticism and philosophy we find this discourse on the necessity of the existence of the Complete Human (al-insān al-kāmil) in the form of prophets and saints. The Complete Human as the most perfect manifestation of the divine, it is argued, fulfils the teleological reason for the existence of the universe, namely the self-unveiling and self-reflection of the divine.

Since the concept of the Complete Human seems very similar to that of the Buddha and the Taoist Zhenren and we also find similar emanational schemes, I am interested whether we find a similar doctrinal discourse in those traditions as well.

Hi!
I've noticed that it's difficult to find any sensible books on Buddhism out there.

So far I've only read quite obscure "The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy" by Junjiro Takakasu.
Really good book, but biased with its Japanese nationalistic perspective.

This is the only thing I've read, so I will be grateful for any recs. Especially for books that branch out from the philosophy side of things.

By the "religious side" I mean, the cosmological/mythical views, rites, anything that's around the core of philosophy

Thanks in advance for giving me your time!

I am trying to read through Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa, and I noticed that the translator's introduction mentions something called an 'Autocommentary'.

I could not find any entries for this word in the online dictionaries, but find that this is commonly used in a lot of Abhidharma text translations.

Any advice on this would be really helpful.

EDIT: Or really any good Discord server for discussing buddhism from an academic perspective