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The Japanese title of the Lotus Sutra (daimoku) depicted in a stone inscription. The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sūtra is the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra, which can be translated as "the Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma " or "The Discourse on the White Lotus of the True Doctrine." [ 4 ][ 5 ] In English, the ...
A page from a 12th-century copy of the Large sutra translated into Chinese by Xuánzàng. [9] In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Prajñāpāramitā sutras are divided into long, medium, and short texts. [5][10] Edward Conze, one of the first Western scholars to extensively study this literature, saw the three largest Prajñāpāramitā sutras ...
List of suttas. Suttas from the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. List of Digha Nikaya suttas. List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas. List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas. List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas. List of Khuddaka Nikaya suttas.
A General Explanation: The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra [29] Buddhist Text Translation Society 2002 ISBN 0881394300: Nan Huai-Chin: The Diamond Sutra Explained: Primodia Media 2004 ISBN 0-9716561-2-6: A.F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng: Shambhala Classics Translation of the Diamond Sūtra and Platform Sutra: 2005
Lalitavistara Sūtra. The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from the time of his descent from Tushita until his first sermon in the Deer Park at Sarnath near Varanasi. The term Lalitavistara has been translated "The Play in Full" or "Extensive Play," referring to the Mahayana view ...
The following are English translations of the Lankavatara sutra. From the Sanskrit edition: [42] Thomas Cleary. The Lankavatara Sutra. The Heart of Buddhism. Translated from the original Sanskrit. 2012. From the four-fascicle Chinese edition of Gunabhadra and the Sanskrit (restored on the basis of Gunabhadra's translation): [42] Gishin Tokiwa.
Pure Land Buddhism. v. t. e. The Heart Sūtra[ a ] is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom ". The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyatā), emptiness is form."
e. In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for " sacred work" [1] or "scripture" [2]) is a collection of early Buddhist texts. The five āgama together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools, which had different recensions of each āgama. In the Pali Canon of the Theravada, the ...