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60: 1480: 443: 2486: 1030: 33: 2478: 2466: 1647:, descriptions of powerful new religious practices, new ideas on the nature of the Buddha, and a range of new philosophical perspectives." These texts present stories of revelation in which the Buddha teaches Mahāyāna sutras to certain bodhisattvas who vow to teach and spread these sutras. These texts also promoted new religious practices that were supposed to make Buddhahood easy to achieve, such as "hearing the names of certain Buddhas or bodhisattvas, maintaining Buddhist precepts, and listening to, memorizing, and copying sutras." Some Mahāyāna sūtras claim that these practices lead to rebirth in 1232: 458: 1458: 2322: 737:). However, Vinaya as a term is also contrasted with Dharma, where the pair (Dhamma-Vinaya) mean something like 'doctrine and discipline'. The Vinaya literature in fact contains a considerable range of texts. There are, of course, those that discuss the monastic rules, how they came about, how they developed, and how they were applied. But the vinaya also contains some doctrinal expositions, ritual and liturgical texts, biographical stories, and some elements of the " 74: 7239: 7250: 4648: 4635: 4625: 4503: 1440: 2473:(The Sūtra of Great Liberation), showing Tibetan writings on black paper with an ink that contain gold, silver, copper, coral, lazurite, malachite, and mother of pearl. The unbound sheets are kept between two wooden boards covered with green brocade. The upper book cover shows the images of four of the Eight Medicine Buddhas. 2408:), is a Korean collection of the Tripitaka carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks during the 13th century. Still intact in good condition after some 750 years, it has been described by the UNESCO committee as "one of the most important and most complete corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world". 1561:
texts as well as generating more spiritual merit and benefit. Thus, they are seen as superior and more virtuous to non-Mahāyāna sutras. The Mahāyāna sūtras are traditionally considered by Mahāyāna Buddhists to be the word of the Buddha. Mahāyāna Buddhists explained the emergence of these new texts by
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These sūtras were not recognized as being Buddha word by various early Buddhist schools and there was lively debate over their authenticity throughout the Buddhist world. Various Mahāyāna sūtras warn against the charge that they are not word of the Buddha, showing that they are aware of this claim.
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According to David McMahan, the literary style of the Mahāyāna sūtras reveals how these texts were mainly composed as written works and how they also needed to legitimate themselves to other Buddhists. They used different literary and narrative ways to defend the legitimacy of these texts as Buddha
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Buddhist texts can be categorized in a number of ways. The Western terms "scripture" and "canonical" are applied to Buddhism in inconsistent ways by Western scholars: for example, one authority refers to "scriptures and other canonical texts", while another says that scriptures can be categorized
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contains a complete collection of early sutras in Chinese translation, their content is very similar to the Pali, differing in detail but not in the core doctrinal content. The Tibetan canon contains some of these early texts as well, but not as complete collections. The earliest known Buddhist
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There are various theories of how Mahāyāna emerged. According to David Drewes, it seems to have been "primarily a textual movement, focused on the revelation, preaching, and dissemination of Mahāyāna sutras, that developed within, and never really departed from, traditional Buddhist social and
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Sanderson, Alexis. "The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period." In: Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo. Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009. Institute of Oriental Culture Special Series, 23, pp.
2485: 1706:'s life and death on earth is then usually understood as a "mere appearance", his death is an unreal show, in reality he continues to live in a transcendent reality. Thus the Buddha in the Lotus sutra says that he is "the father of the world", "the self existent ( 2743:). These are texts (or ritual objects, etc.) believed either composed or hidden by tantric masters and/or elementally secreted or encoded in the elements and retrieved, accessed or rediscovered by other tantric masters when appropriate. Termas are discovered by 1479: 3985:
Cousins, L.S. (1997), "Aspects of Southern Esoteric Buddhism", in Peter Connolly and Sue Hamilton (eds.), Indian Insights: Buddhism, Brahmanism and Bhakd Papers from the Annual Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, Luzac Oriental, London: 185–207, 410.
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in Twenty-five Thousand Lines, and it has been extremely important in the development of the major Chinese Buddhist traditions. Its authorship to Nagarjuna however has been questioned by modern scholars and it only survives in the Chinese translation by
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According to Paul Williams, in Mahāyāna, a Buddha is often seen as "a spiritual king, relating to and caring for the world", rather than simply a teacher who after his death "has completely 'gone beyond' the world and its cares".
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is a broad genre with numerous forms and has been composed in many languages, including Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese. Aside from the work of Aśvaghoṣa, another important Sanskrit poet was Mātr̥ceṭa, known for his
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collection of texts, but they did not see it as an "Āgama". These "minor" collections seem to have been a category for miscellaneous texts, and was perhaps never definitively established among many early Buddhist schools.
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thought that became the standard text for many Mahayana schools especially in Tibet). Various texts are also said to have received by Asanga from the Bodhisattva Maitreya in the Tushita god realm, including works such as
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language and Pāli through the use of repetition, communal recitation and mnemonic devices. These texts were later compiled into canons and written down in manuscripts. For example, the Pāli Canon was preserved in
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which were used to teach Pali. The nineteenth century saw a flowering of Burmese Buddhist literature in various genres including religious biography, Abhidharma, legal literature and meditation literature.
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school were divided along these doctrinal lines into sub-schools which accepted or did not accept these texts. The Theravāda school of Sri Lanka also was split on the issue during the medieval period. The
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in the tantra division. Such overlap is not confined to "neighbouring" yanas: at least nine "Sravakayana" texts can be found in the tantra divisions of some editions of the Kangyur. One of them, the
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An influential text of Thai literature is the "Three Worlds According to King Ruang" (1345) by Phya Lithai, which is an extensive Cosmological and visionary survey of the Thai Buddhist universe.
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contains many parallel passages to the Pali suttas. As noted by N. Ross Reat, this text is in general agreement with the basic doctrines of the early sutras of the Sthavira schools such as
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were traveling to India, and their writings do describe monasteries which they label 'Mahāyāna' as well as monasteries where both Mahāyāna monks and non-Mahāyāna monks lived together.
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Ramanan, Krishniah Venkata, Dr. (1966). Nāgārjuna's Philosophy as presented in Mahā-prajñāpāramitā-śāstra . Charles E. Tuttle Company of Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1966. page 13.
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by all schools. The Buddha's discourses were perhaps originally organised according to the style in which they were delivered. They were later organized into collections called
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are seen as not intelligent enough to receive the Mahāyāna teachings, while more the advanced elite, the bodhisattvas, are depicted as those who can see the highest teachings.
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The early Buddhist schools also preserved other types of texts which developed in later periods, which were variously seen as canonical or not, depending on the tradition.
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into canonical, commentarial, and pseudo-canonical. Buddhist traditions have generally divided these texts with their own categories and divisions, such as that between
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Patriarch, as well as teachings about Ch'an theory and practice. Other texts are Koan collections, which are compilations of the sayings of Chinese masters such as the
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The late Seventh century saw the rise of another new class of Buddhist texts, the Tantras, which focused on ritual practices and yogic techniques such as the use of
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in both human and animal form. The different Buddhist schools had their own collections of these tales and often disagreed on which stories were canonical.
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have argued that these later tantras, mainly the Yogini tantras, can be shown to have been influenced by non-Buddhist religious texts, mainly Tantric
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The Mahāyāna movement remained quite small until the fifth century, with very few manuscripts having been found before then (the exceptions are from
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Hookham, S. K. (1991). The Buddha within: Tathagatagarbha doctrine according to the Shentong interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga. SUNY Press.
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In an effort to preserve these scriptures, Asian Buddhist institutions were at the forefront of the adoption of Chinese technologies related to
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After the arrival of Chinese Buddhism in Japan, Korea and Vietnam; they developed their own traditions and literature in the local language.
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is broadly similar between East Asian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan Kangyur, which belongs to the various schools of Tibetan
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One of the largest category of texts that were neither Sutra, Vinaya nor Abhidharma includes various collections of stories such as the
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Tibetan Buddhist manuscripts handmade with woodblock printing method by Tibetan buddhist monks of Tashilhunpo, Shigatse, Tibet, in 1938
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philosophy. Various other authors of the Madhyamaka school followed him and wrote commentaries to his texts or their own treatises.
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The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga) by Bhadantācariya Buddhaghosa. Translated from the Pali. First edition 1956. 3rd ed. 1991.
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The Nyingma school also has unique tantras of its own, not found in the other Tibetan schools, the most important of these are the
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Another genre that developed over time in the various early schools were biographies of the Buddha. Buddha biographies include the
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respectively) which then developed their own textual histories. Sanskrit had been adopted by Buddhists in north India during the
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a. Fragments of the Dharmaguptaka minor collection have been found in Gandhari. The Sarvāstivāda school also seems to have had a
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by Buddhist institutions, Buddhists continued to copy them by hand as a present authenticity exercise and spiritual practice
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Chen-kuo Lin / Michael Radich (eds.) A Distant Mirror Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism,
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have argued that there is an "ancient core" of early pre-sectarian material in the earliest Abhidharma works, such as in the
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Woodward, F.L. Manual of a mystic, Being a Translation from the Pali and Sinhalese Work Entitled The Yogāvachara's Manual.
1301:(11th or 12th century), a short 50 page introductory summary to the Abhidhamma, which is widely used to teach Abhidhamma. 1289:, this text is regarded as "the principal non-canonical authority of the Theravada." A similar albeit shorter work is the 768:
Aside from the Sutras and the Vinayas, some schools also had collections of "minor" or miscellaneous texts. The Theravāda
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How old is the Suttapiṭaka? The relative value of textual and epigraphical sources for the study of early Indian Buddhism
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There are different types and historical layers of Abhidharma literature. The early canonical Abhidharma works (like the
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of Ratanapañña. Pali literature continued to be composed into the modern era, especially in Burma, and writers such as
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were considered capable to transmitting buddhavacana. The content of such a discourse was then to be collated with the
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texts, whereby the teachings and spiritual path of a practitioner are explained through a review of their life story.
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The Mahāyāna commentarial and exegetical literature is vast. Many of these exegetical and scholastic works are called
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Several Mahāyāna sūtras also depict important Buddhas or Bodhisattvas not found in earlier texts, such as the Buddhas
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Olivelle, Patrick (2008). Life of the Buddha by Ashva-ghosha (1st ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. xix.
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textual tradition spread into Burma and Thailand where Pali scholarship continued to flourish with such works as the
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Johannes Bronkhorst, Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism Handbook of Oriental Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 46–47.
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Kieschnick, John (2003) "The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture" pp. 177-181. Princeton University Press
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which was an important link between Indian and East Asian Buddhism. Parts of what is likely to be the canon of the
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school along with some early proto-Mahayana meditations. They were mostly the work of Buddhist Yoga teachers from
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Johannes Bronkhorst, Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism Handbook of Oriental Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 56.
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Burmese Buddhist literature developed unique poetic forms from the 1450s onwards, a major type of poetry is the
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with other literature in their standard collected editions. However, the general view of what is and is not
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The following is a list of some well known Mahāyāna sutras which have been studied by modern scholarship:
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There are early texts from various Buddhist schools, the largest collections are from the Theravāda and
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Williams, Tribe and Wynne; Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition, chapter 7
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and in classical Sanskrit) and then later translated into the Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist canons (the
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Mahāyāna sūtras are also generally regarded by the Mahāyāna tradition as being more profound than the
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based on the teachings and sayings of Chinese Zen masters. One of the key texts in this genre is the
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arguing that they had been transmitted in secret, via lineages of supernatural beings (such as the
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tradition) has a large terma literature. Many of the terma texts are said to have been written by
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has been a strong influence in many schools of the Mahayana. It is notably a favorite text of the
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has said that these Buddhist systems are "among the major achievements of the classical period of
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The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of
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in the vernacular contains many Buddhist works, including as classical Sinhala poems such as the
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Wallis, Christopher; THE TANTRIC AGE: A Comparison Of Shaiva And Buddhist Tantra, February, 2016
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was concerned with the collection and translation of texts into Chinese and the creation of the
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exist, the only complete collection of texts to survive in a Middle Indo-Aryan language is the
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Another very influential work which traditionally attributed to Nagarjuna In East Asia is the
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Only two full canonical Abhidharma collections have survived both containing seven texts, the
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which were often deployed on a large scale. Because of this, the first surviving example of a
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The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in early Medieval China
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or New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism divide the Tantras into four main categories:
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Vehicle"). The earliest of these sutras do not call themselves 'Mahāyāna,' but use the terms
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from Korea; circa 1340, accordion-format book; gold and silver on indigo-dyed mulberry paper
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Philosophical Aspects of Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Debates on "Mind and Consciousness"
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translations). In addition, portions survive of a number of Vinayas in various languages.
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schools, no complete collection has survived from the other early branch of Buddhism, the
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Norman, Kenneth Roy (1983). Pali Literature. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. pp. 70–71.
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Frauwallner, Erich. Kidd, Sophie Francis (translator). Steinkellner, Ernst (editor).
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collections survive in full, including those of the following schools: Theravāda (in
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hold that early Buddhist texts contain material that could possibly be traced to the
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translation. There many different genres or classes of Mahāyāna sutras, such as the
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often relies on comparative scholarship using these various early Buddhist sources.
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Studies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems.
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as well as the first major comprehensive work on meditation composed in China, the
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two collections of verses related to the elder disciples of the Buddha. A Sanskrit
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view, focusing upon the dissemination of various sectarian traditions throughout
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Buddhaghosa is known to have worked from Buddhist commentaries in the Sri Lankan
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sect accepted them. Theravāda commentaries mention these texts (which they call
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Ancient Buddhist scrolls from Gandhāra: the British Library Kharoṣṭhī fragments
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Mindful Wisdom: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on Mindfulness, Memory, and Liberation.
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that tried to establish which texts were valid sources of knowledge (see also
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Later post-canonical Abhidharma works were written as either large treatises (
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1970. Indian Buddhism. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. 2nd revised edition: 1980.
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Central to much of Mahāyāna philosophy are the works of the Indian scholar
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which are long and embellished translations of Pali Buddhist works, mainly
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began to develop its own unique doctrinal literature with the rise of the
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for historical background and a list of some sutras categorised by source.
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in nine sections, 1523). There is also a genre of Burmese commentaries or
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spiritual practice text used by practitioners, primarily to practice the
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considered both the Buddha's discourses and those of his disciples to be
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which are chants that are believed to have magical and spiritual power.
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ideal, including "expanded cosmologies and mythical histories, ideas of
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Early Buddhist texts which appear in such "minor" collections include:
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These religious texts were written in different languages, methods and
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wrote a large number of texts associated with the Yogacara including:
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Mahāyāna sūtras contain several elements besides the promotion of the
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Buddhist poetry was also written in popular Indian languages, such as
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Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously
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Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche of Samye Ling Temple reads from prayer text
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The Tripiṭaka Koreana, an early edition of the Chinese Buddhist canon
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There are different genres of early Buddhist texts, including prose "
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Beyond the Tipitaka: A Field Guide to Post-canonical Pali Literature
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Drewes, David, Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism II: New Perspectives,
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Mun-keat, Choong (2000), The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism
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Hundreds of Mahāyāna sūtras have survived in Sanskrit, Chinese and
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Hsieh, Ding-Hwa (2004). "Awakening Of Faith (Dasheng Qixin Lun)".
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Many early Buddhist Tantric texts, later termed "action Tantras" (
1982:– A "Buddha nature" text, very influential in East Asian Buddhism. 6994: 6937: 6922: 6069: 6059: 6034: 5909: 5904: 5862: 5832: 5764: 5730: 5617: 5558: 5553: 5407: 5310: 5148: 5098: 4885: 4711: 4266:, Volume II, Parts I & II, 1997, Pali Text Society, Lancaster 4184:
Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture,
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Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture,
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is a Buddhist charm, the first full printed book is the Buddhist
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A section from the Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (
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by Alexander Wynne, St John's College, Oxford University, 2003.
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school, the most influential tantras are those which focus on
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Some Mahāyāna sūtras are also thought to display a distinctly
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for lacking knowledge and goodness, and thus, these elders or
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schools, but there are also full texts and fragments from the
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The earliest Buddhist texts were passed down orally in Middle
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An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices
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Richard Salomon; Frank Raymond Allchin; Mark Barnard (1999).
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Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon
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The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana.
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The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana.
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The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana.
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The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana
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Gethin, Rupert; The Foundations of Buddhism, 1998; pp 39–41
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The Buddha speaks of Amitabha Sutra: A General Explanation.
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equivalent, Kegon. While it is traditionally attributed to
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Many of these Mahāyāna sūtras were written in Sanskrit (in
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The other major type of text aside from the sutras are the
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Buddhist Canonical Text Titles and Translations in English
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The romantic legend of Sâkya Buddha (Abhiniṣkramaṇa Sūtra)
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and other forbidden substances as well as sexual rituals.
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Buddhism, introduces the doctrine of the "three turnings".
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An early Mahāyāna text focused on bodhisattva monasticism.
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became the dominant tradition in Buddhist India until the
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where it was first written down in the first century BCE.
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The Rider encyclopedia of eastern philosophy and religion
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One of the most influential texts in East Asian Buddhism.
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The British Library: Discovering Sacred Texts - Buddhism
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Hamburg Buddhist Studies, Hamburg University Press 2014.
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Gethin, Rupert; The Foundations of Buddhism, 1998; p. 42
2896:, or spiritual biographies, are another popular form of 2383:(摩訶止観). Another important school of Chinese Buddhism is 1295:. Another highly influential Pali Theravada work is the 1201:(那先比丘經). These texts depict a dialogue between the monk 289:
is limited to what was spoken by the historical Buddha.
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from the 9th century. A collection known in English as
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pp. 89-90, 211-212, 227. Buddhist Publication Society.
2301:, most scholars now hold it is a Chinese composition. 1408: 1402: 1396: 1390: 1380: 839:("as it was said") and the Chinese translation of the 665:('scriptures'), which were further collected into the 4588:
History of early Buddhism in Sri Lanka, The Mahawansa
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Jason A. Carbine; 'Burmese, Buddhist Literature in',
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Analayo. Early Buddhist Meditation Studies (Volume 1)
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and other secret methods with which to achieve swift
2373:(538–597 CE) who wrote important commentaries on the 1659:, where becoming a Buddha is much easier to achieve. 1574:
also often criticize early Buddhist figures, such as
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There are also some unique individual texts like the
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Most of the early sutras that have survived are from
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Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha, 1991.
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Indian Buddhism: A Survey with Bibliographical Notes
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Reflecting Mirrors: Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism.
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Buddhism, which is the dominant form of Buddhism in
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sub-sect rejected these texts and the (now extinct)
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manuscripts containing early Buddhist texts are the
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Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra.
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Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra.
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Historic literature and religious texts of Buddhism
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"Tantra", 3328: 3326: 1235:Burmese-Pali manuscript copy of the Buddhist text 327:In Theravāda Buddhism, the standard collection of 4542:translations in multiple languages from the Pali 3355: 3312: 3310: 3296: 3294: 3292: 3081: 3079: 3077: 3075: 3073: 2845:and is especially popular amongst members of the 2806:, often expounded their teachings in the form of 2356:Discourse on the Perfection of Consciousness-only 2098:Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, The Great Discourse on 1849:Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Infinite Life Sutra) 1033:Illuminated manuscript of a Jataka, the Story of 7267: 3870: 3714:: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( 3392:and are of the same value as sutras. in: Eliot, 3126:"Translation and Transmission of Buddhist texts" 2973:, the oldest Buddhist manuscripts yet discovered 2910:Buddhism, and these are influential in Japanese 1067:and legends dealing with the previous births of 621:), various forms of verse compositions (such as 4326:. New York: MacMillan Reference US. pp. 38–39. 4145:Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra. 3628:. University of Washington Press. p. 161. 3388:, says that the writings of Shan-tao come from 3323: 2733:has a unique and special class of texts called 2337:. This was often done by traveling overland to 2077:. Especially important is his magnum opus, the 1118:. Aśvaghoṣa also wrote other poems, as well as 698:" between eternalism and annihilationism, the " 3809:Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 3423: 3307: 3289: 3070: 1368:before the 19th century reformist movement of 1002:), and various Abhidharma type works from the 778:school had a similar collection, known as the 161:, but were later written down and composed as 4608: 4213:Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, 4197:Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, 3059:, Buddhist schools into "yanas" or "vehicles" 2349:(c. 602–664), who also wrote a commentary on 2136:, it was studied and transmitted in both the 1928:A compilation of numerous texts, such as the 1161:Other later hagiographical texts include the 1104:One of the most famous of biographies is the 5390:Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna 3648: 3430:The Authenticity of the Early Buddhist Texts 2469:Image of leaves and the upper book cover of 1823:Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (Diamond Sutra) 548:, these texts are sometimes referred to as " 4464:. Birmingham, Windhorse Publications, 1994. 4186:Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. 40–41. 3728: 3545:A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikāya. 2397:who wrote many commentaries and treatises. 2393:. An important patriarch of this school is 559:Although many versions of the texts of the 4615: 4601: 4546:as well as other collections, focusing on 3953:, Part 2, pp. xi-xiv, The Clarendon press. 3350:South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today 3264:, Thames & Hudson, London, 1984, p. 79 2726:Other products of the Vajrayana literature 2318:and were translated into Chinese early on. 2151:, a great scholar and systematizer of the 1349:translated some of their texts into Pali. 540:himself or at least to the early years of 4160:pp. 89, 93. Buddhist Publication Society. 3580:"The Historical Buddha and his Teachings" 2810:. Collections of these songs such as the 2343:Great Tang Records on the Western Regions 1247:The Theravāda tradition has an extensive 357:; the most common edition of this is the 4226:A History of Indian Literature, Volume 2 3921:A History of Indian Literature, Volume 2 3680:A History of Indian Literature, Volume 2 3503: 3223:"Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara" 2878:, 1392–1481), is a historical survey of 2484: 2476: 2464: 2320: 1907:Actually a collection of various sūtras. 1782: 1478: 1456: 1438: 1230: 1143:. One well known poem is the Tamil epic 1028: 456: 441: 98:that belong to, or are associated with, 72: 58: 31: 6577:Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal 4228:, p. 284. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher 4173:Columbia University Press, 2005, p. 29. 3923:, p. 260. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher 3682:, p. 227. Motilal Banarsidass Publisher 3547:Dharma Drum Academic Publisher. p. 891. 3159:"The Development of the Buddhist Canon" 3156: 3123: 2550:Tantras) advocated union with a deity ( 2329:The early period of the development of 1946:(c. 2nd century CE), the main sutra of 532:, Akira Hirakawa, Alexander Wynne, and 513:, as well as the corresponding Chinese 431: 427:The texts of the early Buddhist schools 14: 7268: 6780:List of Buddhist architecture in China 4039: 4037: 4035: 4033: 4031: 4029: 3694:"Proto-Maadhyamika in the Paali canon" 3485: 3459:Vol. 49, No. 4 (May 2010), pp. 393-420 3144:from the original on February 25, 2021 3111:from the original on November 12, 2020 3093:"The Buddha and Buddhist sacred texts" 3087: 2835:The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa 2558:), techniques for manipulation of the 1894:Saddharmapundarīka-sūtra (Lotus Sutra) 1180:(as well as its Chinese parallel, the 423:and other related Tantric literature. 4596: 4532:The Buddhist Text Translation Society 4207: 4205: 4134:p. 231. Buddhist Publication Society. 4121:p. 215. Buddhist Publication Society. 4097: 4095: 4085:Hookham, Dr. Shenpen, trans. (1998). 3802: 3691: 3610:Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader 3348:Karen Pechilis, Selva J. Raj (2013). 3157:Barrett, T. H. (September 23, 2019). 3124:Barrett, T. H. (September 23, 2019). 2683:(Higher Yoga Tantra) is known in the 2369:School and its major representative, 1285:tradition of Sri Lanka. According to 761:, Mahīshāsika, and Dharmaguptaka (in 331:is the Pāli Canon, also known as the 4556:in English translation (incomplete). 4089:. Oxford: Longchen Foundation: p. 27 3793:pp. 79-83. Hamburg University Press. 3768:, p. 90. Cambridge University Press. 3738:A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma 3491:Indian Buddhism, 3rd Revised edition 1746:character, like some of the shorter 571:, which includes collections by the 4423:. February 10, 2009. Archived from 4026: 3835: 3612:, p. 16. Columbia University Press, 3534:Bodhi, In the Buddha's words, p. 13 3396:, Edward Arnold, London, 1935, p. 6 3277:, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, p. 33 2493: 2266: 2059: 1239:, showing three different types of 1197:) and its parallel in Chinese, the 940:) of key teachings, such as the 37 891: 615:, discourses), disciplinary works ( 365:. This collection, unlike the Pāli 157:were initially passed on orally by 44:'s renunciation and the request by 40:, depicting the events between the 24: 6567:Silk Road transmission of Buddhism 4320:MacMillan Encyclopedia of Buddhism 4202: 4189: 4092: 3783: 3593:A Critical Study of the Mahāvastu, 3515: 3177:from the original on April 7, 2021 2977:Index of Buddhism-related articles 2623:Buddhist Tantras are key texts in 2460: 2274:Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana 1836:Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya (Heart Sutra) 1810:Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra 1570:word. Mahāyāna sūtras such as the 1515:(extensive, expansive) sutras, or 1425: 1216: 80:Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra 25: 7287: 4576:Bibliography of Indian Philosophy 4495: 3591:Rahula, Bhikkhu Telwatte (1978). 3195: 1586:Buddhist communities such as the 1523:institutional structures." Early 1420: 1084:school, the northern tradition's 992:of the Dharmaguptaka school, the 753:(in Tibetan translation) and the 36:Illustrated Sinhalese covers and 7248: 7238: 7237: 6795:Thai temple art and architecture 6540:Huichang persecution of Buddhism 4780:Iconography in Laos and Thailand 4646: 4633: 4623: 4501: 4349:Cultural Heritage Administration 4251:Journal of the Pali Text Society 4053:10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00193.x 3198:"Buddha | Biography & Facts" 2353:which remained influential, the 2219:The 9th Century Indian Buddhist 1961:One of the key "Buddha nature" ( 1474:Bibliothèque nationale de France 633:), mixed prose and verse works ( 195:Buddhism spread outside of India 4647: 4434: 4413: 4403: 4394: 4385: 4376: 4363: 4337: 4312: 4295: 4286: 4269: 4256: 4244: 4231: 4218: 4176: 4163: 4150: 4143:Sree Padma. Barber, Anthony W. 4137: 4124: 4111: 4079: 4066: 4057: 4017: 4005: 3996: 3979: 3965: 3956: 3943: 3926: 3913: 3900: 3883: 3848: 3796: 3758: 3722: 3685: 3642: 3615: 3602: 3585: 3572: 3550: 3537: 3528: 3497: 3479: 3462: 3449: 3436:, Chroniker Press, p. 39, 3417: 3408: 3399: 3371: 2906:wrote a number of treatises on 2600:and its Japanese offshoot, the 2239:is associated with a school of 2110:treatise and commentary on the 1360:. This tradition flourished in 264: 211:," many of which are known as " 77:Folio from a manuscript of the 6785:Japanese Buddhist architecture 6587:Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism 5667:Seven Factors of Enlightenment 4858:Places where the Buddha stayed 3334:A Concise History of Buddhism. 3280: 3267: 3254: 3241: 3215: 3189: 1979:Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra 1024: 887:is also known to have existed. 856:, including texts such as the 13: 1: 6800:Tibetan Buddhist architecture 4462:A concise history of Buddhism 4239:The Prajnaparamita Literature 3951:The questions of King Milinda 3064: 2982:List of historic Indian texts 2796:is a collection of sadhanas. 1133:One Hundred and Fifty Verses. 1037:'s Visit to Heaven and Hell, 741:", or birth stories. Various 215:", and other texts, such as " 124:East Asian Buddhist tradition 6557:Buddhism and the Roman world 6533:Decline of Buddhism in India 6528:History of Buddhism in India 4628:   Topics in 4351:. Korea Tourism Organization 3949:Rhys Davids, Thomas (1894), 3742:Buddhist Publication Society 3652:The Buddhist Forum, Volume 2 3427:; Brahmali, Bhikkhu (2015), 3022:Sanskrit Buddhist literature 2945:Buddhist Publication Society 2818:are still in existence. The 2598:East Asian Esoteric Buddhism 2574:practices such as ingesting 2281:) is an influential text in 1970:Shrīmālādevi-simhanāda Sūtra 1548:Sanskrit Buddhist literature 1491:Around the beginning of the 1443:Frontispiece of the Chinese 942:factors leading to Awakening 517:. The modern study of early 371:Esoteric Buddhist literature 7: 5755:Twenty-two vows of Ambedkar 5495: 2917: 2792:, or meditation deity. The 2052:Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra 1409: 1403: 1397: 1391: 1381: 10: 7292: 6705:The unanswerable questions 4519:November 11, 2021, at the 4477:. London, Routledge, 1989. 4224:Winternitz, Moriz (1996). 3919:Winternitz, Moriz (1996). 3678:Winternitz, Moriz (1996). 3225:. UW Press. Archived from 2497: 1768:, is also included in the 1485:Kako genzai inga kyō emaki 1220: 895: 435: 7233: 7185: 7100: 7015: 6790:Buddhist temples in Korea 6713: 6615: 6498: 6195: 6123: 5950: 5823: 5763: 5398: 5353:Chinese Esoteric Buddhism 5264: 5256:Three planes of existence 5204: 5049: 4941: 4871: 4863:Buddha in world religions 4725: 4670: 4642: 3858:. Encyclopædia Britannica 3791:"The Dawn of Abhidharma," 3655:. Routledge. p. 77. 2863: 2406:Mongol invasions of Korea 1994:elements, influential in 1864:– Another Pure land text. 1852:– An influential text in 1552:decline of Buddhism there 1519:(deep, profound) sutras. 1499:ideal, commonly known as 1487:), mid-8th century, Japan 1449:, the oldest known dated 1376:as "Manual of a Mystic". 1114:in Classical Sanskrit by 686:(rice stalk sūtra). This 596:can be found among these 6572:Persecution of Buddhists 5793:Four stages of awakening 5174:Three marks of existence 4760:Physical characteristics 4528:(archived 19 April 2008) 4489:The First Buddhist Women 4446:Nakamura, Hajime. 1980. 4371:Encyclopedia of Buddhism 4013:Encyclopedia of Buddhism 3845:SUNY Press. pp. 18, 100. 3525:JOCBS. 2019(16): 98-148. 3260:Bechert & Gombrich, 3249:Encyclopedia of Buddhism 2971:Gandharan Buddhist Texts 2766:Tibetan book of the dead 2451:Transmission of the Lamp 2416:large literary tradition 2223:produced two texts: the 1990:– Includes Yogacara and 1886:Shurangama Samadhi Sutra 1352:There are also numerous 1195:The Questions of Milinda 598:Gandharan Buddhist Texts 586:Gandharan Buddhist Texts 179:Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit 143:Gandhāran Buddhist texts 5935:Ten principal disciples 4818:(aunt, adoptive mother) 4572:(archived 6 April 2004) 4526:Online Dharma Libraries 4253:, volume XVI, pp. 161ff 4215:Routledge, 2008, p. 27. 4199:Routledge, 2008, p. 21. 3821:10.3406/befeo.1954.5607 3692:Gomez, Luis O. (1976). 3511:. Munshiram Manoharlal. 3275:Books: A Living History 3202:Encyclopædia Britannica 2566:. Some Tantras contain 2043:, which introduces the 2014:scholasticism of Tibet. 1974:A "Buddha nature" text. 1873:Another Pure land text. 1827:Another possibly early 1674:, and the bodhisattvas 1639:and great, 'celestial' 1322:Dhampiyātuvā gätapadaya 1249:commentarial literature 984:Sarvastivada Abhidharma 704:three unwholesome roots 461:Burmese Pāli manuscript 277:, which is termed "the 6645:Buddhism and democracy 6158:Tibetan Buddhist canon 6153:Chinese Buddhist canon 5385:Pre-sectarian Buddhism 5380:Early Buddhist schools 4443:. London, Rider, 1989. 4087:The Shrimaladevi Sutra 3764:Harvey, Peter (2013). 3493:. 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This is a massive 2080:Mūlamadhyamika-karikā 1955:Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra 1943:Sandhinirmocana Sutra 1911:Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra 1840:Another very popular 1783:Major Mahāyāna sūtras 1503:("Great Vehicle") or 1482: 1460: 1442: 1339:of Saddaniti and the 1310:Sri Lankan literature 1259:(5th century CE) and 1234: 1221:Further information: 1199:Nāgasena Bhikśu Sūtra 1032: 896:Further information: 824:and the Sarvāstivāda 723:Dharmacakrapravartana 692:dependent origination 460: 445: 436:Further information: 399:, what is considered 397:Indo-Tibetan Buddhism 349:, what is considered 132:Indo-Tibetan Buddhism 85:Shadakshari Lokesvara 76: 62: 35: 7132:East Asian religions 6562:Buddhism in the West 6133:Early Buddhist texts 5748:Four Right Exertions 5214:Ten spiritual realms 4707:Noble Eightfold Path 4548:Early Buddhist Texts 4510:at Wikimedia Commons 4275:Hans-Rudolf Kantor, 3599:Motilal Banarsidass. 3505:Gombrich, Richard F. 3352:, p. 115. 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