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The Lalitavistara Sutra ( a Mahayana Buddhist work ) recounts a contest including writing, arithmetic, wrestling and archery, in which the Buddha was pitted against the great mathematician Arjuna and showed off his numerical skills by citing the names of the powers of ten up to 1 ' tallakshana ', which equals 10 < sup > 53 </ sup >, but then going on to explain that this is just one of a series of counting systems that can be expanded geometrically.
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Sutra and Mahayana
In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha insists that while pondering upon Dharma is vital, one must then relinquish fixation on words and letters, as these are utterly divorced from liberation and the Buddha-nature.
Some contemporary Theravadin figures have thus indicated a sympathetic stance toward the Mahayana philosophy found in the Heart Sutra and the Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way.
In the Mahayana canon, the Heart Sutra is ascribed entirely to Guanyin.
Dharmaraksa came to the Chinese capital of Luoyang in 266 CE, where he made the first known translations of the Lotus Sutra and the Dasabhumika Sutra, which were to become some of the classic texts of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism.
The best known are Beyond Life and Death, Mahayana Sutra and Initiation.
Tendai originated in China and is based on the Lotus Sutra, one of the most important sutras of Mahayana Buddhism ; Saichō was key to its transmission to Japan.
The Chinese version of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra also mentions the playing of several games, including Liubo, which some have taken as evidence that Liubo was transmitted to India.
Sōtō Zen, like all of Zen, relies on the Prajnaparamita Sutras, as well as general Mahayana Buddhist sutras, such as the Lotus Sutra, the Brahma Net Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra.
Some sutras, such as the Mahayana Angulimaliya Sutra, also insist that not everything is empty, for the Buddha Nature, and Liberation ( moksha ) are stated not to be empty.
The Mahaparinirvana Sutra, a long and highly composite Mahayana scripture, refers to the Buddha using the term " Self " in order to win over non-Buddhist ascetics.
The Lankavatara Sutra " appears to be one of the earliest attempts to provide a philosophical justification for the Absolutism that emerged in Mahayana in relation to the concept of Buddha ".
During eight years, the Buddha delivered the Mahayana teachings, such as the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra, the Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra and other Mahayana sutras.
is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.
It is considered by many Mahayana sects to be a continuation ( an epilogue ) of the Buddha's teachings found within the Lotus Sutra and is therefore included into the canon of some Nichiren Buddhist sects, and also Risshō Kōsei Kai.
* Complete English translation and analysis of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
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The story of Ksitigarbha was first described in the Sutra of The Great Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, one of the most popular Mahayana Buddhist sutras.
Sutra and Buddhist
In the Heart Sutra, Guanyin describes to the arhat Sariputra the nature of reality and the essence of the Buddhist teachings.
* Surangama Sutra by Buddhist Text Translation Society.
Musashi created and perfected a two-sword kenjutsu technique called niten ' ichi ( 二天一, " two heavens as one ") or nitōichi ( 二刀一, " two swords as one ") or " Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu " ( A Kongen Buddhist Sutra refers to the two heavens as the two guardians of Buddha ).
* The Buddhist Srimala Sutra is translated into Chinese by Gunabhadra.
* Bodhidharma, Buddhist monk, travels to China and begins teachings of the Lankavatara Sutra ( approximate date ).
* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.
* April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.
On the other hand, the very chamber in the temple where the Genji was written is shown — with the ink-slab which the author used, and a Buddhist Sutra in her handwriting, which, if they do not satisfy the critic, still are sufficient to carry conviction to the minds of ordinary visitors to the temple.
Important Buddhist canons were translated into Chinese during the 2nd century CE, including the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, Perfection of Wisdom, Shurangama Sutra, and Pratyutpanna Sutra.
For example, the tantra sections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon of texts sometimes include material not usually thought of as tantric outside the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, such as the Heart Sutra and even versions of some material found in the Pali Canon.
Ravana is mentioned in the famous Buddhist sutra, " Lankavatara Sutra " as paying homage to the Buddha.
A copy of the Diamond Sutra, a key Buddhist text, found sealed in a cave in China in the early 20th century, is the oldest known dated printed book, with a printed date of 868.
They include much of its worldview and its rationale for criticism of Buddhist schools that do not acknowledge the Lotus Sutra to be Buddhism's highest teaching, as stated by Buddha Shakyamuni.
Precise interpretations of Nam ( u )- Myōhō-Renge-Kyō, how it is pronounced, and its position in Buddhist practice differ slightly among the numerous schools and sub-sects of Nichiren Buddhism, but " I take refuge in ( devote or submit myself to ) the Wonderful Law of the Lotus Flower Sutra " might serve as a universal translation.
Sōka gakkai members integrate their Buddhist practice into their daily lives, following the Lotus Sutra based teachings of Nichiren, a 13th-century Japanese Buddhist priest.
The beliefs, religious practice and social orientation of the Sōka Gakkai movement derive from the Lotus Sutra based teachings of the thirteenth-century Buddhist monk Nichiren In the movement's formative years, Makiguchi and Toda found resonance between their ideas on education and the Nichiren's emphasis on individual empowerment, inner transformation and spirit of activism as key to social reform.
Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( 1222 – 1282 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who, having studied Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings and the commentaries of the leading Buddhist scholars, believed that the Lotus Sutra was the ultimate teaching of Shakyamuni and that it was the one true teaching.
Individual practice entails chanting Nam-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō daily and reciting excerpts from the ( 2nd ) and the ( 16th ) chapters of the Lotus Sutra ; studying the life and works of Nichiren ; and sharing with others a Nichiren Buddhist view of life and living.
Sutra and work
In the ancient Indian work the Kama Sutra, light scratching of the breasts with nails and biting with teeth are considered erotic.
Later Indian materialist Jayaraashi Bhatta ( 6th century AD ) in his work Tattvopaplavasimha (" The upsetting of all principles ") refuted the Nyaya Sutra epistemology.
The Kama Sutra (, ) is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana.
Although Kama Sutra did not originally have illustrative images, part 2 of the work describes different sex positions.
The Ancient Indian work Kama Sutra mentions different types of embracing, kissing, and marking with nails and teeth.
The Lotus Sutra ’ s phrase “ Thus I heard ” of disciples recording their mentor ’ s teachings even after he passed away, is regarded in SGI as the foundation of the concept of the bond leading to transfer of teachings :” The Lotus Sutra is an embodiment of the spirit of the oneness of mentor and disciple ”, and: “ The Lotus Sutra calls out for mentor and disciple to work together ”.
This work is often compared to the Kama Sutra, on which it draws.
In the tradition of Sutra literature exposing the full grammar of Sanskrit in extreme brevity, Panini's brilliance lies in the nature of his work of a prescriptive generative grammar, involving metarules, transformations and recursion.
According to the " Pavilion of Vajra Peak and all its Yogas and Yogins Sutra " with the abbreviated name of the " Yogins Sutra ", possibly an apocryphal work attributed to the great Buddhist patriarch Vajrabodhi, Rāgarāja represents the state at which sexual excitement or agitation can be channeled towards enlightenment and passionate love can become compassion for all living things.
The Kama Sutra is the earliest extant and most important work in the Kama Shastra tradition of Sanskrit literature.
Lokaksema's work includes the translation of the Pratyutpanna Sutra, containing the first known mentions of the Buddha Amitabha and his Pure Land, said to be at the origin of Pure Land practice in China, and the first known translations of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( The " Astasahasrika-prajnaparamita Sutras ", or " Perfection of Wisdom Sutras of the practice of the Way ", which later became known as the " Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 lines "), a founding text of Mahayana Buddhism.
: Brahma Sutra 2. 1. 35: " If it be argued that it is not possible ( to take Karma into consideration in the beginning ), since the fruits of work remain still undifferentiated, then we say, no, since the transmigratory state has no beginning.
The oldest extant printed book is a Tang Dynasty work of the Diamond Sutra and dates back to 868.
The drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn ( Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love ).
According to the records of the time, when building work started a copy of the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment ( in Japanese, engaku-kyō 円覚経 ) was dug out of the hillside in a stone chest during the initial building works, giving its name to the temple.
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