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| Â | Mahayana Glossary |
 | | Sutras: Sanskrit for "a string of jewels," Buddhist scriptures, dialogues and sermons of the Buddha, one of the twelve divisions of the Mahayana canon. | | | Mahayana: the "Great Vehicle" which indicates Universalism, or Salvation for all, for all are Buddhas and will attain enlightenment. | | | Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra: a Sutra, said to have been expounded by the Buddha over several times, consisting of 600 rolls of text in 120 volumes, and considered to be the fundamental work on Wisdom. |
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http://bednorz.uni2.net/civet-cat/mahayana-writings/glossary.htm
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| Â | Other Mahayana Writings |
| | The Heart Sutra – Another of the most important sutras of Mahayana Buddhism, illuminating the teaching on emptiness and form, the Heart Sutra is chanted everyday throughout most Zen monasteries. | | | The Diamond Sutra – The most sacred sutra in Mahayana Buddhism, this is by many considered to be the most powerful scripture of all, containing the essential teaching of full enlightenment. | | | The Foundations of Mahayana Buddhism - The list of all lists. |
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http://hjem.get2net.dk/civet-cat/mahayana-writings.htm
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| Â | Mahayana Buddhist Sutras In English |
| | To help English readers interested in learning more about Mahayana Buddhism, here is a collection of links leading to English translations of Mahayana Buddhist Sutras. | | | The Sutra on the Visualization of the Buddha of Infinite Lifespan Traanslated by Hisao Inagaki | | | The Sutra On The Buddha's Bequeathed Teaching Translated by The Buddhist Text Translation Society |
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http://www4.bayarea.net/~mtlee
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| Â | Perfection of Wisdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As well as the sutra itself there is a summary in verse, the Ratnaguṇasaṁcaya Gāthā, which some believe to be slightly older as because it is not written in standard literary Sanskrit. | | | These two are widely popular and have had a great influence on the development of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Includes the Heart Sutra with a Tibetan commentary |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfection_of_Wisdom
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| Â | Buddhist Texts: Mahayana Sutras - ReligionFacts.com |
| | Mahayana Buddhism reveres the Tripitaka as a sacred text, but adds to it the Sutras, which reflect distinctively Mahayana concepts. | | | religions / buddhism / texts / mahayana sutras | | | The Lotus Sutra is revered by most Buddhists, and is the primary focus of the Nichiren school. |
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http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/texts/sutras.htm
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| Â | Buddhist Scriptures: Guide to Mahayana Sutras |
| | One of the three sutras that form the doctrinal basis of the Pureland School - the two others are Meditation Sutra and Longer Amitabha Sutra. | | | One of the two most famous scriptures in the Prajnaparamita group of sutras (the other is the Heart Sutra). | | | This contains the Ten Major Precepts of Mahayana followers, and the Bodhisattva Precepts. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/s_mahasutras.htm
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| | Thirdly, in later Mahayana, they were seen as teachings hidden by the Buddha in the world of serpent- deities (*naga's*), till there were humans capable of seeing the deeper implications of his message, who would recover the teachings by means of meditative powers. | | | During the early centuries of that period -- from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 -- a cleavage into the two great schools of subsequent Buddhist history, Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism, was taking place. | | | SINCE THESE TWO TERMS THEMSELVES REFLECT THE MAHAYANA VIEWPOINT (MAHAYANA MEANING "THE GREATER VEHICLE" OF SALVATION, AND HINAYANA "THE LESSER VEHICLE") I shall refer to the Hinayana school by a different term that is nonprejudicial and is acceptable in the Hinayana countries, namely "Theravada" Buddhism ("the way of the elders"). |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/avidyana/vehicle.html
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| Â | Encyclopedia Article: Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith |
| | There are some elements of such an approach to Nirvana in the Pure Land sects of Mahayana Buddhism, in which attainment to Nirvana depends upon faith in the saving power of Amida Buddha. | | | In Mahayana sources there are many more prophecies relating to the Maitreya Buddha. | | | This period of 2,500 years was completed in 1956 C.E. according to the traditional Buddhist calendar. |
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http://bahai-library.com/encyclopedia/buddhism.html
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| Â | BuddhaNet eBook Library: Mahayana Buddhism, Text and Teachings |
| | Sutra on the Original Vows and the Attainment of Merits of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, translated from Chinese into English by Ms Pitt Chin Hui, President of the Singapore Regional Centre of the World Fellowship of Buddhist. | | | The Suragama Sutra is the text used in the Cha'n school or meditation tradition in Chinese Buddhism. | | | Shantideva is representative of the Madhyamika school of Mahayana Buddhism. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks_ms.htm
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| Â | RELS 307 Handout 11: The Beginnings of the Mahayana Movement |
| | Sutras arises from meditative experiences and takes the form of dialogues between the historical Buddha and his disciples or gods. | | | The Mahayana Sutras have the Buddha disclosing many celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, many of which were to become objects of devotion and prayer. | | | Soon Sutras began to emerge that were ultimately written in Sanskrit, the prestige language of India. |
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http://www.calpoly.edu/~jlynch/30711.htm
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| Â | Sutras-Descriptions/Links |
| | THE HEART SUTRA: Discourses on the Prajnaparamita Hridayam Sutra of Gautama the Buddha | | | Also known as The Flower Ornament Scripture, a massive, blow-your-mind sutra, one of the fundamental teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Upon hearing a monk reciting one line from this sutra, HuaYen, who was to later become the Sixth Patriarch of Cha'n Buddhism, was enlightened. |
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http://www.angelsinc.com/dgsangha/dgsSutras2.htm
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| Â | Buddhism: The Rise of Mahayana Buddhism |
| | The positions advocated by Mahayana [great vehicle] Buddhism, which distinguishes itself from the Theravada and related schools by calling them Hinayana [lesser vehicle], evolved from other of the early Buddhist schools. | | | The bodhisattva is an actual religious goal for lay and monastic Buddhists, as well as the name for a class of celestial beings who are worshiped along with the Buddha. | | | The Mahayana developed doctrines of the eternal and absolute nature of the Buddha, of which the historical Buddha is regarded as a temporary manifestation. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0857054.html
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| | Hirakawa's first lists Nikaya Buddhism as one of the origins of Mahayana Buddhism, but he seems to treat both types of Buddhism as separate socio-religious entities. | | | Mahayana Buddhism did not develop as an independent sect; rather, it grew within the very bosom of (often monastic) religious communities. | | | In chapter sixteen of his work, A History of Indian Buddhism from Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana, Hirakawa argues for an originally lay this-wordly, and socially distinct Mahayana Buddhism, and for its stemming from three sources: Nikaya Buddhism, biographies of the Buddha, and lay-administered stupa worship. |
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http://www.russbo.com/scholar/mahayana_buddhism.htm
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| Â | Overview of Buddhism |
| | Now the Mahayana sutras may not literally be the word of the historical Buddha (and in fact it is not always the historical Buddha who is presented as teaching in them). | | | After the Buddha's death (perhaps in the 5th or 4th century BCE), it is said that 500 of the Buddha's enlightened disciples came together and recited all the sermons (sutras) and precepts (vinaya) that the Buddha had taught. | | | It must be pointed out that while Buddhists in Mahayana countries such as Tibet, China, or Japan will identify themselves as Mahayana Buddhists, Theravadins will rightfully take offense at being referred to as Hinayana Buddhists. |
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http://campross.crosswinds.net/Ryuei/Overview.html
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| Â | A Description of Internet Sites With Mahayana Sutras |
| | sutras on it's web-site Buddhist Door; in addition to a Buddhist glossary and many other electronic-articles. | | | sutras, There is Buddhist Yogi C.M. Chen's Homepage. | | | Another site (The Association for the Computerization of Buddhist Texts) is located in Japan and is in the process of digitizing the Taisho Canon. |
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http://home.att.net/~edwardchang/mahayana/description1.htm
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| Â | Kaiten Nukariya: The religion of the samurai |
| | Since Zen denounced, as we have seen in the previous chapter, the scriptural authority, it is quite reasonable to have given up this view of Buddha inculcated in the Mahayana sutras, and to set at naught those statues and images of supernatural beings kept in veneration by the orthodox Buddhists. | | | Sutras used by Zen Masters.--Ten Dai failed to explain away the discrepancies and contradictions of which the Canon is full, and often contradicted himself by the ignoring of historical[1] facts. | | | The former are the basis of the Mahayana, or the higher and reformed Buddhism, full of profound metaphysical reasonings; while the latter form that of the Hinayana, or the lower and early Buddhism, which is simple and ethical teaching. |
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http://www.terebess.hu/english/samurai2.html
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| Â | The Teaching, Capacity, Time and Country |
| | The custom of referring to the teachings of the Agon sutras as Hinayana derives from the various Mahayana sutras such as the Hodo, Hannya, Lotus and Nirvana sutras. | | | Moreover, the Nirvana Sutra states that those who accept only the Hinayana sutras, declaring that the Buddha is characterized by impermanence, will have their tongues fester in their mouths. | | | Yet there are Buddhist scholars in Japan today who cast aside the Lotus Sutra and instead devote themselves exclusively to the practice of the invocation of Amida Buddha's name. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/teaching_capacity_time_country.htm
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| Â | Mahayana Sutras - InformationBlast |
| | Mahayana Sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that were originally put in writing starting in the first century BCE. | | | Mahayana Buddhists believe that these texts, with the exception of those with an explicitly Chinese provenance, are an authentic account of teachings given during the Buddha's lifetime. | | | They form the basis of the various Mahayana schools. |
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http://www.informationblast.com/Mahayana_Sutras.html
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| Â | Main Cannon of the Books of Buddhism |
| | This page is a link to as many Buddhist texts, sutras, and writings that I could find on the internet as time permits and linking to the Homepage. | | | Books on Buddhism (has listed many titles of Mahayana sutras and teachings) | | | Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva |
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http://www.geocities.com/pathofbuddhism/maincannon.html
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| Â | The Schoyen Collection: 22. Buddhism |
| | The Sutra recounts a debate a Rajagriha, on the Vulture Peak, where 1250 Buddhist monks gathered to hear the Buddha. | | | Commentary: Perfection of Wisdom Sutra is the central text of the Mahayana Prajñamarmita school, here in a translation from the original Sanskrit. | | | Later they were donated to the Kunitama Shrine near Osaka, the tutelary Shrine of the Kii family. |
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http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.19
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| | He is especially interested in Mahayana Sutras, Mahayana religious practice and | | | He specializes in Mahayana Buddhism and in the history of early Chan. | | | Uses of the Heart Sutra ; Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the |
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http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/ccs/faclist.htm
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| Â | Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra |
| | It is a valuable guide for the Mahayana meditation. | | | I find the Maharatnakuta Sutra to be a thematic hodgepodge, and I find nothing of doctrinal significance in it. | | | This is a collection of valuable Mahayana Sutras translated from the Chinese edited by Garma Chang. |
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http://www.wordboost.com/a/Treasury_of_Mahayana_Sutras_Selections_from_the_Maharatnakuta_Sutra_812080936X.html
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| Â | Definition of List of sutras |
| | Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the last days of the Buddha, Mahayana version | | | Mahavairocana Sutra also known as the Mahavairocanādhisambodhi Tantra. | | | Note that there is considerable difficulty in fixing the period of the various sutras. |
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http://www.wordiq.com/definition/List_of_sutras
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| Â | Encyclopedia: Mahayana sutras |
| | I'm thinking of redirecting this page to Buddhist Texts : Mahayana texts section. | | | The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mahayana-Sutras
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| Â | Treasury of Mahayana Sutras; Chang, Chen-chi; Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books |
| | English Books > Humanities > Religion & Beliefs > Non - Christian Religions > Religions Of Indic & Oriental Origin > Oriental Religions > Taoism > Treasury of Mahayana Sutras | | | Treasury of Mahayana Sutras; Chang, Chen-chi; Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books | | | Click on author name above for full title listing |
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http://www.worldretailstore.com/item/BE-0271003413.html
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| Â | Treasury of Mahayana Sutras |
| | A comprehensive source book on one of the five major sutra groups in the Mahayana canon, translated from the Chinese. | | | This is an inspiring collection of 22 of the 49 sutras of the Maharatnakuta, or Treasury, Sutra, many translated into English for the first time. |
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http://www.wisdom-books.com/ProductDetail.asp?CatNumber=781
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http://ac.wiewaers.de/151999_mahayana_sutras.html
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| Â | Online Sutras |
| | Commentary on the Sutra of Eight Realization (by Thich Nhat-Hanh) |
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http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/sutras.html
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