Based on the Lotus Sutra and the Shurangama sutra, Avalokitesvara is generally seen as a saviour, both spiritually and physically.

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.

This vision is expounded in texts such as the Shurangama Sutra and the Uttaratantra.

* 1968: The Shurangama Sutra and Shurangama Mantra are lectured for the first time in the West ( San Francisco ) by Tripitaka Master Shramana Hsuan Hua during 90 day retreat.

It is considered a creative reformulation that assembles the teaching from the Shurangama Sutra and Awakening of Faith, which in terms are also texts whose origin has been scrutinized.

Common in the works of Joseon scholar-monks are writings on Hwaeom-related texts, as well as the Awakening of Faith, Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, Shurangama Sutra, Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra.

Includes the Pratyutpanna Sutra and the Shurangama Samadhi Sutra.

In the Shurangama Sutra, Mahāsthāmaprāpta tells of how he gained enlightenment through the practice of Buddha recitation, or continuous pure mindfulness of Amitābha, to obtain samādhi.

Hsu Yun's works or by the Shurangama Sutra, though he has heard that the Shurangama mentions a similar practice.

The original Sanskrit version of Shurangama Sutra have not been found yet.

That name is similar with Shurangama Samadhi Sutra () in Chinese, so Joseph Edkins translated it to surangama-samadhi-sutra in English version.

Then Charles Luk translated it to Shurangama Sutra.

Shurangama Sutra did not record at official catalogue.

Since the Tang Dynasty there has been debate in East Asian Buddhism whether the Shurangama Sutra is a forgery or not.

Lu Cheng () wrote an essay attempting to prove this book is apocryphal, named " One hundred reasons about why Shurangama Sutra is apocryphal " ().

According to Tripitaka Master Shramana Hsuan Hua of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, All of these beings are invoked ( hooked and summoned ) and exhorted to behave ( subdued ) and protect the Dharma and its practitioners in the Shurangama Mantra

According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.

In 1968, Hsuan Hua held a Shurangama Study and Practice Summer Session.

Every day most Jains bow and say their universal prayer, the Navakar Mantra which is also known variously as Panch Parmesthi Sutra, Panch Namaskar Sutra.

Coins and a fuda are similarly offered, and again the Heart Sutra is chanted, along with repetition of the Gohōgō Mantra, namu-Daishi-henjō-kongō.

Linguistically, the Vedic texts could be classified in five chronological strata as Rigvedic, Mantra, Samhita, Brahmana, Sutra, and Epic and Pāṇinian.

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.

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra, dating from the first century AD, describes oral sex, discussing fellatio in great detail and only briefly mentioning cunnilingus.

With specific reference to Avalokitesvara, he is stated both in the Lotus Sutra ( Chapter 25 " Perceiver of the World's Sounds " or " Universal Gateway "), and the Surangama Sutra to have appeared before as a woman or a goddess to save beings from suffering and ignorance.

This choice, as Nichiren himself explained, was rooted in passages from the Lotus Sutra.

As for the texts themselves, the Yoga Sutra iii. 44 cites a sutra as that from Patanjali by name, but this line itself is not from the Mahābhāṣya.

In particular, East Asian monastics take on the bodhisattva vows from the Brahma Net Sutra which has a vow of vegetarianism as part of the Triple Platform Ordination where they receive the sramanera / sramanerika, bhikshu / bhikshuni and bodhisattva vows, whereas the Tibetan lineages transmit the bodhisattva vows from Asanga's Yogacarabhumi, which does not include a vow of vegetarianism.

Vajrapani's Yaksha-like Narayana form was eventually equated with one of the four staff-wielding " Kimnara Kings " from the Lotus Sutra in 1575.

He translates the Lankavatara Sutra from Sanskrit into the Chinese language.

* The Kama Sutra in audio format from LibriVox

The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang Dynasty China, 868 A. D. ( British Library )

* Previously unreleased live recordings from the 1969 Bill Haley's Scrapbook sessions at the Bitter End ( CD release of Bill Haley's Scrapbook ( Kama Sutra / Buddah, 1993 ) and The Warner Brothers Years and More box set ( Bear Family, 1999 );

Thus, this album was recorded for Buddah, with the band signed to Kama Sutra, which left them close to penniless after extricating themselves from A & M.

It consists primarily of quotations ( of varying length ) from sūtras, authoritative texts considered to be the word of the Buddha — generally those sūtras associated with Mahāyāna tradition, including the Samadhiraja Sutra.

Quotes on ascetic practices from the Akaranga Sutra as Hermann Jacobi translated it:

The walls of his United Farm Workers office in Keene were lined with hundreds of books ranging in subject from philosophy, economics, cooperatives, and unions, to biographies of Gandhi and the Kennedys, The Kama Sutra, the memoirs of Che Guevara, and " The Good German: Why Illegal Pseudo-Farming Union Crime Rings Failed ".

The Diamond Sutra of the China | Chinese Tang Dynasty, the oldest dated printed book in the world, found at Dunhuang, from 868 CE.

When Bobby London took over the strip from 1986 to 1992, he added the sultry blonde Sutra Oyl, Olive's cousin.

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.

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.

Another similarity in the rituals practiced by these schools is including recitation of parts of the Lotus Sutra, however in arrangements which can vary from a school to another.

As Roy occupies himself with a copy of the Kama Sutra, Wang enters the secret room, which contains treasures from throughout the British Empire.

In the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Buddha is portrayed telling of how, with his buddha-eye, he can actually see this hidden " jewel " within each and every being: " hidden within the kleśas contaminants of greed, desire, anger, and stupidity, there is seated augustly and unmovingly the Tathagata's wisdom, the Tathagata's vision, and the Tathagata's body [...] all beings, though they find themselves with all sorts of kleśas, have a tathagatagarbha that is eternally unsullied, and replete with virtues no different from my own ".