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The sloka was meant as a call to his countrymen to awaken their "sleeping soul" and propagate the message of peace and blessings given by the "ancient Mother" to the world. "Awake" also denotes the awakening of one's real nature and the consequent ushering in of prosperity. [2] On 24 April 1897 Vivekananda wrote a letter to Sarala Ghoshal.
The purpose of this sūtra is said to be to help sentient beings in a troubled and tumultuous world. According to this sūtra, beings will leave suffering and obtain happiness, increase in prosperity and longevity, remove karmic obstacles, eliminate disasters and calamities, remove enmity and hatred, fulfill all wishes, and quickly be led onto the Buddha's way.
The fourth stage is that of Arahant (Sanskrit: Arhat), a fully awakened person. They have abandoned all ten fetters and, upon death (Sanskrit: Parinirvāṇa, Pāli: Parinibbāna) will never be reborn in any plane or world, having wholly escaped saṃsāra. [3] An Arahant has attained awakening by following the path given by the Buddha.
The Innumerable Meanings Sutra [1] [2] also known as the Sutra of Infinite Meanings (Sanskrit: अनन्त निर्देश सूत्र, Ananta Nirdeśa Sūtra; Chinese: 無量義經; pinyin: Wúliángyì Jīng; Japanese: Muryōgi Kyō; Korean: Muryangeui Gyeong) is a Mahayana Buddhist text.
The English term enlightenment is the Western translation of various Buddhist terms, most notably bodhi and vimutti. The abstract noun bodhi (/ ˈ b oʊ d i /; Sanskrit: बोधि; Pali: bodhi) means the knowledge or wisdom, or awakened intellect, of a Buddha. [web 1] The verbal root budh-means "to awaken", and its literal meaning is closer ...
The Sanskrit term sat, which means "truth" or "what is existing, real", has a range of important religious meanings including "truth" or "the Absolute, Brahman". The passage immediately following the mantra explicitly identifies the unreal and darkness with death and the real and light with immortality, saying that all three portions of the ...
The present Sanskrit edition contains ten chapters and most scholars consider the introductory chapter (the "Ravana" chapter), the ninth chapter (a dharani) and the last chapter (the Sagathakam verses) as being later additions. Furthermore, not all versions of the sutra contain these chapters (1, 9, 10). [9]
The Sanskrit text of the Mahāvairocana Tantra is lost, but it survives in Chinese and Tibetan translations. [1] The Chinese translation has preserved the original Sanskrit mantras in the Siddhaṃ script. There are translations from both into English. (see below). A major commentary by Buddhaguhya was written in about 760 and is preserved in ...