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The 29 Chapter Version was probably the most popular in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist regions. [citation needed] In 2007, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Buddhist organization, produced a translation of the 21 chapter version of the Sutra, the most abbreviated and condensed version. [20]
Translation from Tibetan by Dharmachakra translation Group (84000) 18 Rāṣṭrapāla-paripṛcchā The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla 護國菩薩會經 yul ’khor skyong gis zhus pa Translation from Tibetan by the Vienna Buddhist Translation Studies Group, 84000. Translation from Chinese in Boucher, Daniel (2008).
Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. ... 84,000 Maha Kalpa .
Sakya Monastery houses a huge library of as many as 84,000 books on traditional stacks 60 metres (200 ft) long and 10 metres (33 ft) high. Most of them are Buddhist scriptures, although they also include works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. [10]
In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण trilakṣaṇa) of all existence and beings, namely anicca (impermanence), dukkha (commonly translated as "suffering" or "cause of suffering", "unsatisfactory", "unease"), [note 1] and anattā (without a lasting essence).
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra was often quoted and paraphrased by Indian philosophers like Chandrakirti and Shantideva, and it also figured prominently in the development of East Asian Buddhism. [4] [5] [1] [6] It is notably an important sūtra in Zen Buddhism, as it discusses the key issue of "sudden enlightenment". [7]
The Sanskrit was published in parallel with the Tibetan and three Chinese versions by the Study Group on Buddhist Sanskrit Literature at the Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism at Taisho University in 2004, [4] and in 2006, the same group published a critical edition that has become the standard version of the Sanskrit for scholarly ...
Amitābha is said to display 84,000 auspicious and distinguishing marks ... the earliest Buddhist sutra mentioning Amitābha is the translation into Chinese ...