The Brahmā's Net Sutra / translated by A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muller, A. Charles, 1953- translator.

Tanaka, Kenneth Ken'ichi, translator.

Series:

BDK English Tripiṭaka

BDK English Tripiṭaka series

Standardized Title:

Fan wang jing. English.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Mahayana Buddhism--Sacred books.

Mahayana Buddhism.

Bodhisattvas.

Bodhisattva stages (Mahayana Buddhism).

Genre:

Sacred books.

Sacred works.

Physical Description:

xxi, 111 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Moraga, California : BDK America, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

"The Brahmā's Net Sutra, translated by A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka, is the primary extant vinaya text that articulates a set of precepts from a Mahayana perspective, mainly intended for "bodhisattva practitioners," primarily householders, rather than renunciant monks or nuns. Before the appearance of this text the monastic rules and regulations in East Asian Buddhism were defined fully by the "Hinayana" vinaya, most importantly the Fourt-part Vinaya associated with the Dharmaguptaka school in India. With the appearance of the Brahmā's Net Sutra many East Indian schools diversified their precept practices, with some groups of practitioners taking up either set of precepts, often utilizing both. Composed in China around 420, the Brahmā's Net Sutra is based on various contemporary Mahayana and Hinayana vinaya writings and includes extensive discussion of indigenous Chinese moral concepts such as filial piety, etc. The text is based in the same mainstream Mahayana thought of the Flower Ornament Sutra (Huayan jing), the Nirvana Sutra (Niepan jing), and the Sutra for Humane Kings (Renwang jing). In fact, the extend of the Brahmā's Net Sutra's agreement with the Flower Ornament Sutra is so pronounced that it is regarded as the "concluding sutra" of the latter."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

A message on the publication of the English Tripiṭaka / Numata Yehan

Editorial foreword / Kenneth K. Tanaka

Publisher's foreword / A. Charles Muller

Translators' introduction / A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka

The Brahmā's Net Sutra. Fascicle 1. Exposition of the Brahmā's Net Sutra ; Fascicle 2. The precepts

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

A list of the volumes of the BDK English Tripiṭaka (first series).

Notes:

"Taishō Volume 24, Number 1484."

Translated from the Chinese.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88) and index.

ISBN:

9781886439658

1886439656

OCLC:

1007927008