Dharma Wheel

Rulu's translation of only the second fascicle begins like this: At that time Firm Pure Faith Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva asked Earth Store Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva, “Please indicate a viable way for the sake of those who seek the Mahāyāna.” Earth Store Bodhisattva-Mahāsattvas said, “Good man, if there are...

Happiness cannot exist where Truth is absent. Erected upon the shifting sands of human fiction and hypotheses, happiness is merely a house of cards tumbling down at the first whiff; it cannot exist in reality as long as egotism reigns supreme in civilized societies. As long as intellectual progress...

While dipping into the Karma section of Geshe Sopa's commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo I noticed that however popular & influential Vasubandhu's Kosa is, Geshe Sopa says Asanga's Abhidharmasamuccaya is the higher Abhidharma & the Kosa the lower. Wonder how widespread that valuation is? Asanga's is a ...

While dipping into the Karma section of Geshe Sopa's commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo I noticed that however popular & influential Vasubandhu's Kosa is, Geshe Sopa says Asanga's Abhidharmasamuccaya is the higher Abhidharma & the Kosa the lower. Wonder how widespread that valuation is? Asanga's is a m...

A book version from Asian Humanities Press with the translation by Sara Boin-Webb of the same Walpola Rahula's French translation is also available. The Ani & Boin-Webb may have worked independently, so similarities in translation are just because the French of Rahula can be rendered similarly. Her...

I am interested in Dogen and his Shobogenzo. I have read small portions in translation. There are "Amazon reviews" and the reviews that practitioners would make. :smile: I am soliciting recommendations on a) translations of the Shobogenzo and b) books on Dogen's life and dharma works. Thank you for...

Buddha continues giving vices to avoid & virtues to practice for another 25 or so verses, here are a few examples (without the notes): 1.27 ...It is the transcendence of matter. It is the understanding of sounds. It is the attainment of joy. It is experiencing the joy of the Dharma. It is sincerity....

1.25 Young man, in that way the bodhisattva mahāsattva who has evenness of mind toward all beings, wishes to benefit them, and has no anger or partiality will attain the samādhi known as the revealed equality of the nature of all phenomena. 1.26 Young man, what is the samādhi called the revealed eq...

Try his name mantra - OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA SUMATIKIRTI SIDDHI HUM

Or string together his three Mahasattva aspects: OM MANI PADME HUM - OM AH RA PA CHA NA DHI - OM VAJRAPANI HUM

Uphill Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that ...

Self-Knowledge Know yourself—and is this the prime And heaven-sprung adage of the olden time?— Say, canst thou make thyself?—Learn first that trade;— Haply thou mayst know what thyself had made. What hast thou, Man, that thou dar’st call thine own?— What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?— D...

1.20 The Bhagavān said to the youth Candraprabha, “Young man, a bodhisattva mahāsattva will attain all those qualities and quickly attain the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood if he has one quality. What is that one quality? Young man, it is a bodhisattva mahāsattva’s evenness o...

1.7 Young man, I am omniscient. I am all-seeing. I have attained preeminence because of my strengths and fearlessness concerning all Dharmas. I possess the unobscured wisdom of liberation. Young man, there is nothing in the endless, infinite worlds that the Tathāgata does not know, has not seen, ha...

There are 40 chapters & Roberts helpfully summarizes each one. Here are the first two: Chapter 1: The Introduction The Buddha Śākyamuni is on Vulture Peak Mountain outside Rājagrḥa with a great gathering of bhiksụs and bodhisattvas. Candraprabha asks him for instruction. The Buddha states that evenn...

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Good, good! Those without the faculty of faith, those who are weary or sluggish in mind, those who have not accumulated efforts, those whose vigor recedes, those who are satisfied with meager virtues, those imbued with only one root of goodness, those unskilled in carrying out practical vows , thos...

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Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:51 am

It is actually an extract from a sutra in the ratnakuta collection.

Right, Inquiry of Upali is one translation, quoted by Shantideva. In Chang's old Mahayana Sutras book it is titled Definitive Vinaya

Sutra 24, Taisho 310 translated into Chinese by Bodhiruci.

A potpourri of writings & videos about CTTB & Master Hua:

http://www.cttbusa.org/cttbarticles/articles.asp

Search for Great Repentance of the Eighty Eight Buddhas and you will find many versions, some with English translations too.

Planets & stars above still Lake Tanaya...

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