This record of the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch, is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials. It deals with the Buddhist notion that the only criterion of any significance whatsoever is the experience of seeing the Buddha-nature, realizing one's innate status as an enlightened being.
This record of the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch, is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials. It dea...
The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable was written in the Yuan Period by the Tibetan 'Phags-pa for the Chinese Crown Prince at the time as an outline of Buddhist thought, and deals with such subjects as the Buddhist view of life and Buddhist cosmology. The teachings set forth are based on the whole on the Abhidharmakosa-bhasya, but there are also to be found ideas peculiar to this work. The title, Treatise on the Clarification of What is to be Known, implies that all teachings which it is necessary to know are made clear by the contents...
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The Treatise on the Elucidation of the Knowable was written in the Yuan Period by the Tibetan 'Phags-pa ...
The Vairocanabhisa?bodhi Sutra is one of the two basic texts of East Asian Esoteric Buddhism. Chapters discuss Tantic practices such as construction of a ma ala, initiation rites, mantras, mudras, and visualization, as well as the ten precepts and other Mahayana teachings.
The Vairocanabhisa?bodhi Sutra is one of the two basic texts of East Asian Esoteric Buddhism. Chapters discuss Tantic practices such as construction o...
