Flower Adornment Sutra: Chapter 1, Part 3 The Wondrous Adornments of the Rulers of the Worlds
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (641 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0881394645 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Isabelle Mandolinist said Great translation and explanation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Chapter 1. This volume contains the first part of Chapter 1 of the Avatamsaka Sutra, accurately translated into English from Shikshananda's centuries-old Chinese translation, with the Ven. Master Hsuan Hua's detailed and illuminating explanations.Since this sutra is huge, it needs to be read volume by volume, especially when commentary is included. Ven. D.M. Hsuan Hua's teachings on this sutra, sometimes presented conversationally as interactions between master and disciples, are highly readable, simple and clear, and filled with important information about the sutra's thematic to
He meditated by his mother s grave for three years and practiced other austerities before receiving full ordination. He learned to read at 15, and after his mother s death at 19, he became a monk. About the Author Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua (1918 1995) Master Hua was born in 1918 near Manchuria, China into a family of frugal farmers. With the arrival of the communists on the Chinese mainland, the Master went to Hong Kong to promote orthodox Buddhism. He founded the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, the International Translation Institute, and over 20 other monasteries and temples all over the globe, with the goal of spreading Buddhism around the world. At Nan Hua Monastery in Canton (the bodhimanda of the Sixth Patriarch), Master Hua received the mind-to-mind transmission of the Patriarchs from Master Hsu Yun, making him the 45th Patriarch in direct lineage from Shakyamuni
You do enter and yet not enter. This volume continues to describe the assembly that has gathered at the bodhimanda to hear the Avatamsaka Sutra. However, records kept by spirits are not like human records, which must be written down. The first chapter has been published in four volumes. Spiritual recordkeeping is far more wonderful than our computers and calculators. If an event needs to be retrieved, the event will naturally reappear. It contains alternating prose and verse sections telling about the realizations of the eightfold division and of five kinds of spirits, as well as giving their praises of the Buddhas. It describes a cosmos that has infinite realms within realms, boundless and interpenetrating. It presents, in detailed description, the stages of Awakening that a Bodhisattva or 'Awakened Being must progress through on the path towards Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi Supreme Perfect Enlightenment. This is the third part of Chapter 1 of the monumental translation with full commentary by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, on this epic sacred Mahayana Buddhist text. Then it's a passage into liberation. This sutra contains the most complete explanation of the Buddha's state of realization and the Bodhisattva's quest for awakening. Day-ruling spirits oversee the merits and offenses done in the daylight hours, recording the dee
He meditated by his mother s grave for three years and practiced other austerities before receiving full ordination. Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua (1918 1995) Master Hua was born in 1918 near Manchuria, China into a family of frugal farmers. At Nan Hua Monastery in Canton (the bodhimanda of the Sixth Patriarch), Master Hua received the mind-to-mind transmission of the Patriarchs from Master Hsu Yun, making him the 45th Pat