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The Vimalakīrti Sūtra = Weimojie suo shuo jing : translated from the Chinese of Dharma Master Kumārajīva / The International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts (Dharma Realm Buddhist University).
Van Pelt Library BQ2212.E5 H69 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Taishō ; volume xiv, no. 475
- Standardized Title:
- Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Vimalakīrtinirdeśa. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bodhisattvas.
- Bodhisattva (The concept).
- bodhisattvas.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Weimojie suo shuo jing
- Place of Publication:
- Ukiah, California : Buddhist Text Translation Society, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A new translation of the Vimalakīrti Sūtra. Translated from the Chinese of Kumarajiva (Taisho Vol. XIV. No. 475) by the International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts (IITBT) at Dharma Realm Buddhist University. Also called Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, it dates from no later than the 3rd century CE, and most likely from the 1st or 2nd centuries CE. In the sūtra the layman and householder Vimalakīrti , who is also a model bodhisattva, instructs deities, learned Buddhist arhats, and lay people in all matters concerning the nature of enlightenment, emptiness (sunyata), and non-duality. Vimalakīrti employs a subtle understanding of "skill in means" (upāya) to lead them the highest truth: the counter-intuitive claim that nirvana and saṃsāra , at an ultimate level, are not different. The discourse culminates with a wordless teaching of silence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Eight Guidelines of BTTs
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial and Technical Notes
- Verse for Opening a Sūtra
- The Vimalakīrti Sūtra: Buddhalands
- Skillful Means
- Śrāvakas
- Bodhisattvas
- Mañjuśrī Inquires about Vimalakīrti's Health
- The Inconceivable
- Contemplating Living Beings
- The Path to Buddhahood
- Entering the Dharma Door of Nonduality
- Buddha Collection of Supreme Fragrances
- Bodhisattva Practice
- Seeing Akṣobhya Buddha
- The Offering of the Dharma
- Entrustment
- Endnotes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version : The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
- ISBN:
- 9781642170757
- 1642170755
- 9781642171075
- 1642171077
- OCLC:
- 1224584312
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