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A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden (Fayuan zhulin, T. 2122) is a large anthology of thematically arranged excerpts from Buddhist canonical sources and historical records, attributed to the seventh-century monk Daoshi. Most of the scriptural passages were taken from Indian Buddhist scriptures translated into Chinese, the settings of their narratives are for the most part Indian. The historical records excerpted in the collection are of C...

The nature of the Buddha's speech, buddhavacana, has been discussed by Buddhist thinkers from soon after the Buddha's lifetime. In modern Buddhist scholarship it seems natural to focus on the textual record of the Buddha's teachings, but overemphasizing that aspect risks losing sight of the potency of the Buddha's speech to effect liberation. Comparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study address...

Translation of the Zhong ahan jing. Cf. page xv.

Volume V translated by Harumi Hirano Ziegler.

Volume V translated by Harumi Hirano Ziegler.

Volume V translated by Harumi Hirano Ziegler.

Prince Shōtoku's Commentary on the Śrīmālā Sutra is a translation of the Shōmangyō-gisho (Commentary on the Śrīmālādevīsimhanāda-sūtra), one of three Buddhist commentaries written in classical Chinese that have been attributed to Japan's Prince Shōtoku (574-622).A master politician and shining figure in the imperial line, Prince Shōtoku played a leading role in government and with promoting diplomatic, cultural, and religious contacts with Chi...

Lewis Rosser Lancaster's vision led to the establishment of the Group in Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. The Group continues today as one of the most important programs for the academic study of Buddhism. Lancaster's dissertation on the Chinese translations of the 8, 000 Line Perfection of Wisdom sutra informed the program with a strong philological emphasis, and a focus on the detailed understanding the hi...

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The Expository Commentary on the Vimalakīrti Sūtra is a translation of the Yuimagyō-gisho, a three-fascicle commentary on Kumarajīva's translation of the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra. Together with commentaries on the Lotus Sutra and the Śrīmālādevī-sūtra, it is known as one of the "Three Commentaries" (Sangyō-gisho) attributed to Shōtoku Taishi. While questions about Shōtoku's authorship still remain, this text has played significant role in the ...

The Brahma's Net Sutra plays an important niche role in the development of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the primary extant Vinaya text that articulates the precepts from a Mahayana perspective. That is, it takes its main audience to be "bodhisattva practitioners”, mainly householders who remain engaged with society rather than becoming renunciant monks or nuns.

Compiled by Vinaya Master Shi Sengyou, these writings (by laypeople as well as scholar-monastics) were intended to protect the Buddha Dharma from criticisms by Confucians and Daoists and the political powers of the time. As noted in the translator's introduction, Sengyou believed that "The Way is propagated by people, and the teaching is clarified by literature.

A collection of three important esotheric texts. The Sutra of the Vow depicts an ideal being, Vajrasattva, in its universal drama and offers a pathway to transformation and salvation. The Matanga Sutra presents the story of Prakiti and her love for the monk, Ananda. The Bodhicitta Sastra remains one of the most important sastras in the Shingon school of Esoteric Buddhism.

One of three texts that constitute the Maitreya Triple Sutra, Compiled after the well known Sutra which made a lasting impression of the concerns of the Indian Mahayana community. The Sutra That Expounds the Descent of Maitreya Buddha etc. (Taisho 454) follows the tradition of portraying Maitreya as the future Buddha who will arise to restore the Dharma after the original teachings have fallen into decline. The Sutra of Mañjuśrī's Questions (T...

Compiled by Vinaya Master Shi Sengyou these writings were intended to protect the Buddha Dharma from criticisms by Confucians and Daoists and the political powers of the time. An invaluable source to examine the early development of Chinese Buddhism. This work (Taisho 2102) compiles discourses, responses to Anti-Buddhist critiques, correspondence, reports to the emperor, family codes, and written appeals by Buddhist laypeople and monks, dating...

This is a translation of the first of four volumes of the Mah?y?na version of the Mah?parinirv??a-s?tra, one of the most revered and influential Buddhist texts in East Asia. It is based on the Chinese translation by the Indian monk Dharmak?ema from a Sanskrit text of which only fragments remain. Not to be confused with an early Buddhist sutra of the same name, the Nirvana Sutra is most famous for its doctrine of the "buddha-nature” as universa...

The Buddhacarita: In Praise of Buddha's Acts is a complete biography of Sakyamuni, from his birth until after his death (parinirvana), when his relics were distributed. Composed by Asvaghosa (early second century CE) the text was rendered into Chinese by Baoyun in 421 CE from the original Sanskrit, creating a simplified version that would be more easily understandable to a Chinese audience. The Buddhacarita reads like a play, describing the in...

The Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation is a meditation manual compiled in China in the 4th century C.E. by Kumarajiva, the noted translator of many important Mahayana sutras and philosophical texts. Based on his profound knowledge of both Traditional and Mahayana Buddhism, Kumarajiva introduced Mahayana thought systematically and significantly advanced the Chinese understanding of Buddhism. This clear and well-organized manual de...

The Vairocanā, bhisambodhi Sutra is one of the two basic texts of East Asian Esoteric Buddhism. Chapters discuss Tantric practices such as construction of a mandala, initiation rites, mantras, mudrā, s, and visual-ization, as well as the ten precepts and other Mahayana teachings.

Collection of Passages on the Nembutsu is the principle work by Honen. It ranks along with Dogen Zenji's The Treasured Eye of the True Dharma and with Honen's disciple Shinran's major writings as one of the three most influential bodies of Buddhist teachings of the Kamakura period. Together, the doctrinally revolutionary ideas contained in these works radically and permanently changed the face of Japanese Buddhism. And among them Honen's Sench...