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Vasubandhu's. Treatise on the Lotus Sutra, The [法華論・法華経論] (Skt Saddharma-pundarika-upadesha; Chin Fa-hua-lun or Fa-hua-ching-lun; Jpn Hokke-ron or Hokekyoron ) A Chinese translation of Vasubandhu's commentary on the Sanskrit Lotus Sutra, Saddharma-pundarika-sutra. The full title is The Treatise on t...

A Vital new debate of What can we know of the Buddha. A dynamite comparison to the real situation of academics compared to Aristotle and much more enesues, and the blog(a converstion into which you can jump in) begins: Trusting our sources: manuscripts, archaeology, and what we “cannot know” Posted ...

Anyway, here a bit from an early draft by Bhikshu Dharmamitra: Maybe I'll live to see this? :woohoo: By the way, the Ten Grouds sutra - he's doing 2 1/2 versions, right? (I think there will be one of those 2 versions both on BDK and that version also on his lable with full notes and table-settings....

But WHY are they identicle? The Lotus is (wholesome) propagaganda for two important very Mahayana concepts, the single vehicle and the limitlessness of Buddha in space and time, referring to the (technical) process of emptiness only twice and the Asta is a emptiness meditation rapsody that in the ea...

Lotus Sutra - Prajna 8000 Intro compared The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law Translated By H. Kern (1884) HOMAGE TO ALL THE BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY Thus have I heard. Once upon a time the Lord was staying at Râgagriha, on the Gridhrakuta mountain, 1. with a nu...

so the Lotus Sutra is deeply important to me. It's profoundly important to East Asian Buddhism. It isn't important to Tibetan Buddhists or Theravada Buddhism. That's their choice. That is because the Yogacara of the Abhidharmasutra, Asanga and the Vasubandhu of the commentaries, can be read as a re...

You know, I took refuge April 16th 1986 and a different Lama blew through LA like a rock band every weekend, gave a rare hue of yidam, empowered a group of 5 to 10 to be his sangha and meet in the weekends in a living room, collected cash for his home monestary and moved on like a Rock Band to retun...

"who cares whose mouth it comes out of if it's the Dharma?"

Not being prejudiced against any source for learning is a GREAT attitude. But this begs the question - so I'll ask it.

I have to ask you your criteria for identifying speech as Dharma.

http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/is-the-lotus-sutra-authentic-by-bhikkhu-sujato/ A different slant and actually a brisk rehursal of the inevitable introductory "Is Mahayana Fake?" discussion. Sample: Jason on September 12, 2012 at 10:49 am said: I really appreciate the interesting philolog...

This essay here: http://www.crvp.org/book/Series01/I-39/ch22.htm is about how to increase mutual values recognition in Buddhism and cross-cultural communication. Sample of essay from CHAPTER XXII APPROPRIATING THE OTHER AND TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS INTO WISDOM: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON CH...

:twothumbsup: Bodhiruci #1 Bodhiruci (菩提留支, 5th–6th centuries) means Bodhi splendor. A Buddhist master from northern India, he was versed in Mantra practices and the Tripiṭaka. Aspiring to propagate the Dharma, in 502, the first year of the Yongping (永平) years of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386–534), ...

MAITREYA SUTRAS and TEXTS LIST & Request I am wanting to stabilize the basic source texts for Maitreys, I need Taishō confirmation and ANY corrections or additions you may be willing to proffer. Assigning a Taishō number when possible will side-step a LOT of wildly diverse English and Chinese ti...

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I am interested in the idea some sutta/sutra straddle the boundary between the Hinayana and Mahayana as we in retrospect impose these categories. I am especially interested in a topic they share , Maitreya. Some sutras seem to live in a location ideologially like that overlap of two circles in a Fen...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wLiNsI%2BAL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg The Lankavatara Sutra is the key classic for the Chan School of Buddhism, and it is considered to be the most difficult sutra to understand. For a thousand years in Chinese history, ve...

http://lirs.ru/lib/Abhidharmasamuccaya,Asanga,Rahula,1971,Boin-Webb,2001.pdf The Abhidharmsamuccaya, an introductory abhidharma of the combined vehicle of the sravaka and the mahayana presented with an eye to also orienting mixed sanghas to some rudamentary yogacara views. The first chapter on the ...

I stumbled into this:

http://www.berkeleymonastery.org/upload ... spread.pdf

Bhikshu Dharmamitra kindly responded to my e-mail asking about the several versions of the Ten Grounds sutra, the Chapter in the Avatamsaka and Vasubandhu's Commentary - and again kindly gave permission to share his tak The Avatamsaka Ten Grounds Chapter and the Ten Grounds Sutra via Kumarajiva et a...

This triple threat great good news also makes me want to ask about a score of questrions. In academic translations there are critical editions of actual manuscipts and attempts to build up a model of what a a complete text might comtain. This is I think, but am uncertain,is the core of the criticism...

For those with languages and skills... :bow: http://sravakabhumi.blogspot.com/ 意地 已說五識身相應地。云何意地？此亦五相應知。謂自性故，彼所依故，彼所緣故，彼助伴故，彼作業故。 [解]五識身相應地己經說明。什麼是意地？這個意地也是有五個相貌，應該知道。哪五個相貌呢？就是自性故、彼所依故、彼所緣故、彼助伴故、彼作業故。 mano-bhūmiḥ katamā /sāpi pañcabhir ākārair draṣṭavyā / svabhāvata āśrayata ālambanataḥ sahāyataḥ kar...