Sutras Extolling Benefits of Calm Abiding?

[WeiHan]

I'll be grateful if anyone can point to me the following which I'll describe.

I know of sutras that extol the benefits for a great variety of practices such as reciting the names of various Buddhas, developing loving kindness, refraining from 10 non-virtuous deeds, practicing generosity and developing bodhicitta etc...

However, probably I am not very erudite, I can't think of any sutras that extol the benefits of calm abiding meditation or even insight meditation. This doesn't click too well with understanding as calm abiding and insight meditation are crucial ingredient along the path for many schools in Buddhism. I'll be thankful if anybody help me out with this.

[Malcolm]

I'll be grateful if anyone can point to me the following which I'll describe.

I know of sutras that extol the benefits for a great variety of practices such as reciting the names of various Buddhas, developing loving kindness, refraining from 10 non-virtuous deeds, practicing generosity and developing bodhicitta etc...

However, probably I am not very erudite, I can't think of any sutras that extol the benefits of calm abiding meditation or even insight meditation. This doesn't click too well with understanding as calm abiding and insight meditation are crucial ingredient along the path for many schools in Buddhism. I'll be thankful if anybody help me out with this.

The Bodhisattva Pitika Sūtra is pretty comprehensive in this regard.

[WeiHan]

Thanks for the reply Malcolm.

But I can't find any English Translation of this sutra right now yet in the internet. Do you happen to know any short quotes either in this sutra or other sutras extolling the importance of Shamatha meditation?

Right now, really I can only recall sutras that I know of that extol the great benefits of reciting that particular sutra itself, eg Diamond Sutra etc..Shamatha is only mentioned in commentaries of the entire path by masters such as Tsongkhapa, Asanga etc..I checked Dezhung Rinpoche's commentary on the Triple Vision for the part on Shamatha and indeed he only has a few quotes from Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra.

[Sentient Light]

The Maitreya chapter of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra.

[crazy-man]

ārya-bodhisattva-piṭaka-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/inde ... ll=kangyur

English Resources
Author:Pederson, Kusumita Priscilla
Title:The Dhyāna Chapter of the Bodhisattva-piṭaka-sūtra
Publ. Date:1976
Publ. Details:Thesis (Ph.D.) Columbia Univ.

Author:Pagel, Ulrich
Title:″The Bodhisattvapiṭaka″
Publ. Date:1995
Publ. Details:Tring, U.K.: Inst. of Budhist Studies
Notes:English translation of chapter 11 (from Tibetan)

Author:Liland, Fredrik, and Braarvig, Jens
Title:[Bodhisattvapiṭaka]
Publ. Details:[Forthcoming (84,000 Project)]
Notes:Complete English translation

Ta p'u-sa tsang ching 大菩薩藏經(20 fasc)
Bodhisattva piṭaka-sūtra.
(Sutra of the Scriptural-Basket of the Great Bodhisattva)
(included in T.11.310 [sūtra 12] secs. 35-54)
Hung-fu (Vast Prosperity) Monastery 弘褔寺
NOTE: Part of the Ratnakūta sūtra. The brunt of the Ratnakūta was translated by Bodhiruci (706) and Dharmarakṣa (313), though many other translators contributed selections. According to Hsüan-tsang's biography, the last text he was asked to translate was the complete Ratnakūta. He began, but sickness and old age prevented him from getting very far. Since Ta p'u-sa tsang ching was the first text he translated upon returning to China, that brought his work full circle.

http://www.acmuller.net/yogacara/thinke ... ks-uni.htm