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The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (2013), translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Translated from Tibetan into English and checked against the Sanskrit version.
the eternity of the Buddha's true body (dharmakāya or vajrakāya) the four inversions (viparyāsas) and how they do not apply to the Buddha's ultimate nature, which is constant, blissful, pure, and a self. how sentient beings are not distinct from the dharmadhātu; the inferiority of the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas; buddha-nature ...
N. Ross Reat notes that this indicates that the early Mahayana tendency was not "self-consciously schismatic" but was simply one of the many attempts to systematize and elaborate on the Buddha's teachings. While some schools chose to incorporate these systematizations into Abhidharma texts, the proto-Mahayana chose to incorporate them into sutras.
"For hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love. This is an eternal law." — Buddha "Your mind is Nirvana." — Bodhidharma "The greatest achievement is selflessness.
In 1958, Nobel published a German translation, based on Yijing's Chinese text. [18] In 1970, R. E. Emmerick produced an English translation of the short, condensed Sanskrit version of the Sutra of Golden Light into English.
Some parts of the sutra have been translated into English. 84000.co currently contains five translations of individual sutras: Teaching on the Great Compassion of the Tathāgata (Tathāgatamahākaruṇānirdeśa) (Tōh. no. 147) which corresponds to the Dhāraṇīśvārarāja Bodhisattva sutra.
The class of texts called "Tathāgatagarbha sūtras" teach the important Mahāyāna doctrine of Tathāgatagarbha, (Tathāgata-embryo, Tathāgata-womb, Inner Tathāgata, also known as Sugatagarbha) and Buddha-dhatu (Buddha nature, Buddha source, Buddha element). According to Williams, this doctrine states that all beings "have a Tathāgata [i.e ...
Pariyatti refers to the theoretical study of the Buddha's teaching as preserved within the suttas and commentaries of the Pāli Canon; paṭipatti means to put the theory into practice; and paṭivedha means penetrating the theory or rather experientially realizing the truth of it, that is the attainment of the four stages of awakening.