Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Chapter 17 Discrimination of merit and virtue Chapter 18 Rejoicing in accord with merit and virtue Chapter 19 The merit and virtue of a Dharma master written by Hsüan Hua and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Ch 17 Discrimination of merit and virtue Ch 18 Rejoicing in accord with merit and virtue Ch 19 The merit and virtue of a Dharma master written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chapter Seventeen, the Buddha describes for Maitreya Bodhisattva the extent of the merit and virtue of one who, having heard of the Buddha's life span, brings forth faith and understanding. Chapter Eighteen describes how one who upholds this sutra will gain merit and virtue pertaining to the mouth. Chapter Nineteen describes how one who upholds this sutra will gain merit and virtue pertaining to the ears.

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Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Introduction ch 2 written by Hsüan Hua and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Devadatta ch 12 Exhortation to maintain ch 13 written by Hsüan Hua and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Belief and Understanding ch 4 written by Hsüan Hua and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra A Parable ch 3 written by Hsüan Hua and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Ch 14 Happily dwelling conduct written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tian Tai tradition distinguishes this chapter as the beginning of the second half of the Sutra. Included is a discussion of the conduct of a Bodhisattva as it relates to the Vinaya and the Four Dharmas that Bodhisattvas should follow and happily maintain. Happily-dwelling conduct is the Bodhisattva conduct, and the Bodhisattva conduct is itself the happily-dwelling conduct. Happily dwelling in the doors of practice cultivated by Bodhisattvas, we can reside physically and mentally in the states of cultivation of the Bodhisattva Way, and do so happily, since that is what we to do.

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Ch 20 Never slighting Bodhisattva Ch 21 The spiritual powers of the thus come one Ch 22 The entrustment Ch 23 The former deeds of Medicine King Bodhisattva Ch 24 Bodhisattva wondrous sound written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chapter Twenty, Shakyamuni Buddha tells about one of his former lives. In Chapter Twenty-one, the Bodhisattvas promise to propagate this Sutra. In Chapter Twenty-two, the Buddha entrusts the Dharma to them. Chapter Twenty-three describes how Medicine King Bodhisattva used his body as an offering to this Sutra in past lives. In Chapter Twenty-four, the Bodhisattva Wondrous Sound arrives from a distant land to make offerings.

Download or read book The Great Means Expansive Buddha Flower Adornment Sutra written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses various analogies to describe the merit obtained by the Bodhisattva when he first resolves his mind on becoming enlightened.

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Introduction written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Sutra, which was spoken in the last period of Shakyamuni Buddha's teaching, the Buddha proclaims the ultimate principles of the Dharma, which unite all previous teachings into one. Foreword by Venerable Master Hua. Discusses the five periods and the eight teachings of the Tian Tai School and then analyzes the School's Five Profound Meanings as they relate to the Sutra. The last portion tells of the life of Tripitaka Master Kumarajiva, who translated the Sutra from Sanskrit into Chinese.

Download or read book The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra Chapter 25 The universal door of Guanshiyin Bodhisattva written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular chapter is memorized and recited by Mahayana Buddhists throughout the world. It describes how Guanshiyin Bodhisattva uses great compassion to universally rescue beings.

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Download or read book Flower Adornment Sutra written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter, which makes up one quarter of the entire Sutra, contains the spiritual journey of the Youth Good Wealth in his search for Ultimate Awakening. During his quest, he meets fifty-three Good Teachers, each of whom represents a successive stage on the Bodhisattva path. Good Wealth meets the teachers on the seventh to tenth Grounds.

Download or read book The Shurangama Sutra written by Hsüan Hua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sutra gives the most detailed explanation of the Buddha's teachings concerning the mind. It includes an analysis of where the mind is located, an explanation of the origin of the cosmos, a discussion of the specific workings of karma, a description of all the realms of existence, and an exposition on the fifty kinds of samadhi-concentrations, which, if we become attached to any of them, can delude us in our search for awakening. Also, in this Sutra, twenty-five enlightened sages explain the methods they used to become enlightened. The Venerable Ananda presents seven ideas on the location of the mind. The Buddha shows how each one is incorrect and then explains the roots of the false and the true.