The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa (Devanagari: विमलकीर्तिनिर्देश) (sometimes referred to as the Vimalakīrti Sūtra or Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra) is a Buddhist text...
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(T 263—62) Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (T 475) Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, (T 227, 408 CE) Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (T 223, 403-404...
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The Heart Sūtra is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism. In Sanskrit, the title Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya translates as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom"...
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The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, Chinese: 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and...
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Zen scriptures (redirect from Zen and sutras)
Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana-sutra, and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. The Chán-tradition...
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Buddhist texts (redirect from Buddhist sūtra)
Buddhism. Samādhirāja Sūtra (or Candrapradīpa Sūtra), influential in the Madhyamaka scholasticism of Tibet. Vimalakīrti Sūtra – A sutra which depicts the...
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Jan Nattier has praised the style of Thurman's translation of the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, praising it as among the very best of translations of that important...
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Platform Sūtra" (PDF). Chung-hwa Buddhist Journal (20). Taipei: 396. Verhoeven, Martin (2014), The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra, Burlingame:...
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tathāgatagarbha sutras, and it cites the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra, the Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra, Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, the Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra, the...
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Lotus Sūtra, Mañjuśrī also leads the Nagaraja's daughter to enlightenment. He also figures in the Vimalakīrti Sūtra in a debate with Vimalakīrti where...
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in which can be found references to the Vimalakīrti Scripture, the Huayan Scripture, the Mahāsamnipata-sūtra, the Foshuo Foming Scripture 佛說佛名經, the Lankāvatāra...
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Guanyin (redirect from Sutra of Kuan Yin)
its own sūtra, called the Avalokitasvara Sūtra (Ch. 觀世音經), and is commonly recited or chanted at Buddhist temples in East Asia. The Lotus Sutra and its...
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the Buddhist sutras. The Heart Sūtra and the Diamond Sūtra were the most popular, followed by the Lotus Sūtra and the Avatamsaka Sutra. Chinese Buddhism...
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on 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2017-09-12. "The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion's Roar and the Vimalakīrti Sutra" (PDF). 2014-09-12. Archived from the original...
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Bodhidharma (section The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra)
four-roll Laṅkā Sūtra, handed it over to Huike, and said: "When I examine the land of China, it is clear that there is only this sutra. If you rely on...
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various sutras like the Lotus Vajrasattva, an important figure in Vajrayana Buddhism Vimalakirti the famous lay bodhisattva of the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa...
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Huineng (section The Platform Sutra)
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra Brahmajāla Sūtra Vimalakirti Sutra Lotus Sutra Śūraṅgama Sūtra Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana...
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The Tathāgataguhya Sūtra (Secrets of the Tathāgata) or Tathāgatācintyaguhyanirdeśasūtra (The Sūtra that Teaches the Inconceivable Mystery of the Tathāgata)...
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The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa), originally titled in French L'Enseignement de Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa), is a study and translation...
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Śāriputra (section The Vimalakīrti Sūtra)
In the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, Śāriputra is depicted as being unable to grasp Mahayana doctrines such as non-duality and emptiness. In the sutra, a goddess...
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Mahāparinirvāṇa sūtra Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtram (Lotus sutra) Samādhirāja sūtra (King of Samadhis) Sarvatathāgatādhiṣṭhānavyūham sūtra Suvarṇaprabhāsa sūtra (Golden...
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"complete" teachings. The Vimalakīrti Sūtra is also seen as an important sutra in Tiantai. Zhiyi wrote a commentary on this sutra, the Wuimo yiji (維摩義記 T1776)...
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Willem Lincoln van de Wetering (February 12, 1931 – July 4, 2008) was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch. Van de Wetering was born and...
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Huayan (section Huayan sutra)
worldview is based primarily on the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra (Chinese: 華嚴經; pinyin: Huáyán jīng, Flower Garland Sutra) as well as on the works of Huayan patriarchs...
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(1903-1983), Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, Tome 74, 1985. pp. 6-28. Williams, Paul M. "The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa)"...
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13 January 2014. McRae, John (2004), The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion's Roar and the Vimalakīrti Sutra (PDF), Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist...
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treatise and commentary on the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra (The Sūtra of Transcendental Wisdom in Twenty-five Thousand Lines). The title...
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Ten principal disciples (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
and Central Asia. The ten disciples are mentioned in the Mahāyāna text Vimalakīrti-nideśa, among others. In this text, they are called the "Ten Wise Ones"...
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the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) denies outright that such a svabhāva exists within any being; however, while in the tathāgatagarbha sūtras, notably the Mahāyāna...
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Vimalakīrti Nideśa, he is one of the disciples who refuses to visit the lay bodhisattva (Buddha-to-be) Vimalakīrti. In Chapter 3 of the Lotus Sutra entitled...
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