Niết Bàn) or Nirvana Sutra for short, is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture of the Buddha-nature class. The original title of the sutra was Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra...

up nirvana. Writing on this Mahayana understanding of nirvana, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous state: 'The Nirvana Sutra claims for nirvana the...

biographical event, the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa sūtra was written hundreds of years later. The Nirvana Sutra does not give details of the historical event...

14th century. The Kalpa Sutra is ascribed to Bhadrabahu, traditionally said to have composed it some 150 years after the Nirvāṇa (samadhi) of Mahavira....

Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Great Final Nirvana Sutra, c. 200 CE), very influential in Chinese Buddhism Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Descent into Lanka Sutra, 3rd century CE), integrating...

into final Nirvana (he only appeared to do so as upāya), but is still active teaching the Dharma. The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sūtra is the Saddharma...

H. Sharf "Nirvana Sutra": full text of "Nirvana Sutra", plus appreciation of its teachings. and Nirvana Sutra (2,6 MB) The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra A Mahāyāna...

Buddhism[permanent dead link] (log in with userID "guest") Appreciation of the Nirvana Sutra and Tathagatagarbha teachings An English translation by 84000: Translating...

sūtras include the Lotus Sutra, the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Lankavatara Sutra, the Pure Land Sutras, and the Nirvana Sutra...

Nirvana (/nɪərˈvɑːnə/ neer-VAH-nə, /-ˈvænə/ -⁠VAN-ə, /nɜːr-/ nur-; Sanskrit: निर्वाण nirvāṇa [nɪrʋaːɳɐ]; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown...

Dharmakṣema in a debate that lasted ten days. He was given a copy of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra by the old monk and this is reported to have been the trigger of his...

boxes, or other symbols. The Diamond Sutra (Sanskrit: Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra (a kind of holy scripture) from the...

states that buddhānusmṛti can lead to the unconditioned, nirvana, as well as magic power. This sutra explains that a monk should sit down and "contemplates...

in Chinese Buddhism include: Lotus Sutra, Flower Ornament Sutra, Vimalakirtī Sutra, Nirvana Sutra, and Amitābha Sutra. Chinese Buddhism is the largest institutionalized...

Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body. Passages from the recitations of Nibbana Sutta or Nirvana Sutra describing the Buddha's...

Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which in that short form appears to deny the Buddha-nature to icchantikas; the long version of the Nirvana Sutra, however (not yet...

Appreciation of the Nirvana Sutra and Tathagatagarbha teachings "Tathagatagarbha Buddhism": the full text of the "Tathagatagarbha Sutra" plus text of 4 other...

similarities with the Nirvana sutra, and teaches that the Buddha is eternal and does not really pass into parinirvāṇa. The Mahāmegha Sūtra was translated into...

Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra to be the wisdom that perceives reality directly without conceptual attachment, thereby achieving nirvana. The sutra concludes with...

(represented by the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras 般若經). Lotus-Nirvāṇa period 法華涅槃時, Lotus sutra and Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, a teaching that is neither sudden nor...

cite the following Mahayana sutras often: the Lotus Sutra, the Huayan, the Nirvana, the Laṅkāvatāra, the Prajñāpāramitā sutras, the Mahāratnakūta, the Mahāsamnipāta...

विमलकीर्तिनिर्देश) (sometimes referred to as the Vimalakīrti Sūtra or Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra) is a Buddhist text which centers on a lay Buddhist meditator...

illusions and Nirvāṇa, are dreams and Nirvāṇa." This is connected to the impermanence and insubstantial nature of dharmas. The Prajñāpāramitā sutras give the...

The Nirvana Upanishad (Sanskrit: निर्वाण उपनिषत्, IAST: Nirvāṇa Upaniṣad) is an ancient sutra-style Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. The...

Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-30. Nirvana Sutra, Kosho Yamamoto's English translation of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra...

said[by whom?] that the Iroha is a transformation of these verses in the Nirvana Sutra: 諸行無常 是生滅法 生滅滅已 寂滅為楽 which translates into All acts are impermanent...

various Buddhist sutras in Mahayana literature, including the Larger Sutra of Immeasurable Life, the Nirvana Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra and the Mahaprajñaparamita...

mountain." Ummon asked the head monk, "What sutra are you lecturing on?" "The Nirvana Sutra." "The Nirvana Sutra has the Four Virtues, hasn't it?" "It has...

White Lotus Sutra, and refers to any effective method or technique that is conducive to spiritual growth and leads beings to awakening and nirvana. This doctrine...

(i.e. the nirvāṇa-dhātu) and saṃsāra (the realm of cyclical suffering, i.e. sattvadhātu), both which are non-dual and indivisible. The sutra plays on the...