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4 days ago · In East Asian Buddhism, the three primary texts of the Pure Land tradition (the "Three Pure Land Sutras") are the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Infinite Life Sutra/The Larger Amitabha Sutra), Amitayurdhyana Sutra (Contemplation Sutra) and the Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Amitabha Sutra).
4 days ago · The large sutra on perfect wisdom, with the divisions of the Abhisamayālaṅkāra / translated by Edward Conze. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1975] Located at Firestone Library (F) 5053.693.1975
3 days ago · He appears as a supporting character in several important Mahāyāna sūtras such as the Lotus Sutra, Vimalakirti Sutra, the Golden Light, the King of Samadhis Sutra, and the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines.
4 days ago · Other influential sutras in Zen are the Vimalakirti Sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra, and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. Important apocryphal sutras composed in China include the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment and the Vajrasamadhi sutra .
5 days ago · The Vimalakirti Sutra describes a Buddha field called Many Fragrances. Everything in this world has a wonderful fragrance. The Buddha teaches through various fragrances. The inhabitants of this world are very surprised that the Buddha of our world teaches about suffering and the cessation of suffering. Suffering? Never heard of it.
3 days ago · Bingling means one hundred thousand Buddha in the Tibetan language. The grottoes are in two two temples, upper and lower, and are distributed on the cliff that is 2 kilometres long from north to south, borders on the Yellow River and is strategically located and difficult to access.
4 days ago · Hinduism - Sutras, Shastras, Smritis: Toward the end of the Vedic period, and more or less simultaneously with the production of the principal Upanishads, concise, technical, and usually aphoristic texts were composed about various subjects relating to the proper and timely performance of the Vedic sacrificial rituals.
