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The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा वत ा रस ू त ् र ; ) is a sutra of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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Laṅkāvatāra and Sūtra
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra figured prominently in the development of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism.
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of Yogācāra and Tathāgatagarbha.
The most important doctrine issuing from the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra is that of the primacy of consciousness ( Skt.
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra describes the various tiers of consciousness in the individual, culminating in the " storehouse consciousness " ( Skt.
A number of ancient translations of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra were made from Sanskrit into the Chinese language, as early as the 3rd century CE with a translation by the Indian monk Dharmarakṣa.
The school heavily utilized the principles found in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, a sūtra utilizing the teachings of Yogācāra and those of Tathāgatagarbha, and which teaches the One Vehicle ( Skt.
" The earliest masters of the Chán school were called " Laṅkāvatāra Masters ", for their mastery of practice according to the principles of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra.
Nan Huaijin identifies the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra and the Diamond Sūtra ( Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ) as the principle texts of the Chán school, and summarizes the principles succinctly:
The later Descent into Laṅkā Sūtra ( Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, 4th century CE ) also assumed considerable importance.
Among these was Guṇabhadra's translation of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra in four fascicles, which would also become important in the early history of the Chán school.
The Platform Sūtra cites and explains a wide range of Buddhist scriptures: the Diamond Sūtra, the Lotus Sūtra ( Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ), the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana-sutra, and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra.
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The well-known Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, composed sometime around the 4th century CE, is sometimes included in this group, although it is somewhat syncretic in nature, combining pure Yogācāra doctrines with those of the tathāgatagarbha system and was unknown or ignored by the progenitors of the Yogācāra system.
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra was influential in the Chan or Zen schools.
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In the later Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra it is said that the tathāgatagarbha might be mistaken for a self, which it is not.
Laṅkāvatāra and .
The later Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra presents the tathāgatagarbha as being a teaching completely consistent with and identical to emptiness.
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra describes the tathāgatagarbha as " by nature brightly shining and pure ," and " originally pure ," though " enveloped in the garments of the skandhas, dhātus and ayatanas and soiled with the dirt of attachment, hatred, delusion and false imagining.
Thus the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra identifies the luminous mind of the canon with the tathāgatagarbha.
in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ) with doctrines of Citta-mātra (" just-the-mind ") or Yogācāra.
Sūtra and Sanskrit
The Huayan developed the doctrine of " interpenetration " or " coalescence " ( Wylie: zung -' jug ; Sanskrit: yuganaddha ), based on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, a Mahāyāna scripture.
* Sūtra, A Sanskrit word which literally means a thread or line that holds things together
It is based on the Sanskrit Flower Garland Sutra ( S. Avataṃsaka Sūtra, C. Huayan Jing ) and on a lengthy Chinese interpretation of it, the Huayan Lun.
Sanskrit manuscript of the Heart Sutra | Heart Sūtra in the Siddhaṃ script.
The Lotus Sūtra ( Sanskrit: ) is one of the most popular and influential Mahāyāna sūtras, and the basis on which the Tiantai and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.
The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra ( Sanskrit: व ि मलक ी र ् त ि न ि र ् द े श स ू त ् र ), or Vimalakīrti Sūtra, is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtra.
In 1981, the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies published a Sanskrit edition of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, entitled Āryavimalakīrtinirdeśo Nāma Mahāyānasūtram ( आर ् यव ि मलक ी र ् त ि न ि र ् द े श ो न ा म मह ा य ा नस ू त ् रम ्).
The full Sanskrit title of this text is the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra.
The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sūtra is the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, which may be translated roughly as the " Vajra Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra.
* Sanskrit: वज ् रच ् छ े द ि क ा प ् रज ् ञ ा प ा रम ि त ा स ू त ् र, Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra
Sanskrit text of the Heart Sūtra, in the Siddhaṃ script.
A Sanskrit manuscript of the Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja Sūtra was among the textual finds at Gilgit, Pakistan, attesting to the popularity of Bhaiṣajyaguru in the ancient northwest Indian kingdom of Gandhāra.
The Ten Stages Sutra ( Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra ; ) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture.
The Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra ( Sanskrit ; ; Japanese: 勝鬘経 Shōman-kyō ) is one of the main early Mahāyāna Buddhist texts that teaches the doctrines of Tathāgatagarbha and the One Vehicle ( Skt.
Alternate Sanskrit titles of this text include Amitābhavyūha Sūtra, Amitāyuḥ Sūtra, and Aparimitāyuḥ Sūtra.
Traditionally the Infinite Life Sūtra is believed to have been translated twelve times from the original Sanskrit into Chinese from 147 to 713 CE.
In addition to the Chinese translations, the Infinite Life Sūtra is also extant in Sanskrit.
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* The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".
* The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang in China ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".
According to the Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadra-bāhu, the 24th himself emerged out of the great ; whereas the 22nd emerged out of the great vimāna Aparijita.
The text is set in a world where monasticism is the norm, typical of the Pāli Suttas ; there is none of the usual antagonism towards the śravakas ( i. e., the early Buddhists ) or the notion of Arahantship, as is typical of Mahāyāna sutras such as the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra.
The Diamond Sūtra is a short and well-known Mahāyāna sūtra from the Prajñāpāramitā, or " Perfection of Wisdom " genre, and emphasizes the practice of non-abiding and non-attachment ; it has been compared in depth and importance and canonical relevance to the Sermon On The Mount
In such a case the Sūnyam Anyat formula says that one root equals zero ; and the Sūnyam Samuccaya Sūtra says that D < sub > 1 </ sub > + D < sub > 2 </ sub >) =
The Infinite Life Sūtra, or Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra ( ; ) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtra, and the primary text of Pure Land Buddhism.
* Aurel Stein discovers the Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, at the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".
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