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Hodge, Stephen (2012), The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra. The text & its Transmission (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on December 19, 2013 Corrected and revised version of a paper presented in July 2010 at the Second International Workshop on the Mahaparinirvana Sutra held at Munich University.
However, the Mahaparinirvana Sutra is a long and highly composite Mahayana scripture, [8] and the part of the sutra upon which Williams is basing his statement is a portion of the Nirvana Sutra of secondary Central Asian provenance - other parts of the sutra were written in India.
Complete English translation and analysis of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra or PDF; Bhadra-kalpika Sūtra Bhadra-kalpika Sutra {s = sahasra; l = laks Bhadra-kalpika Sutra, Manu-antara-s 3-4 Bhadra-kalpika Sutra, Manu-antara-s 5 & Bhadra-kalpika Sutra, Manu-antara-s 7 & 8; Sūtras
There are numerous versions of the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta.Among them, the Pali version is of an early date in respect of language and contents. The Mahāparinibbāna Sutta is of utmost historical and cultural value and therefore it has become a sourcebook for students of Buddhism, Buddha biography and history of Buddhist thought and literature.
"The Textual Transmission of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra" (PDF). University of Hamburg. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-28. Page, Tony, ed. (2007). The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra. Translated by Kosho Yamamoto. London: Nirvana Publications. Wynne, Alexander (2010). "The atman and its negation".
He appears in the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra as a being completely overtaken by evil and suffering, and as such the prototype of an ordinary, sinful person who can only be saved by the Buddha's compassion; the Buddha even declares in this sutra that he will "remain in the world for the sake of Ajatashatru". [17]
Other influential sutras are the Vimalakirti Sutra, [4] [5] [6] Avatamsaka Sutra, [7] the Shurangama Sutra, [40] and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. [ 22 ] The growing Chán tradition also faced the challenge to put its teachings into words, to bolster its identity and to apply it in formal teaching settings, without losing the central insight into ...
The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra lists approximately 50 kleshas, including those of attachment, aversion, stupidity, jealousy, pride, heedlessness, haughtiness, ill-will, quarrelsomeness, wrong livelihood, deceit, consorting with immoral friends, attachment to pleasure, to sleep, to eating, and to yawning; delighting in excessive talking and ...