A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras: Selections from the Mahāratnakūṭa SūtraMotilal Banarsidass Publ., 1991 - 496 pages The Maharatnakuta Sutra is one of the five major sutra groups in the Mahayana canon. Of the two great schools of Buddhism, Mahayana has the greatest number of adherents worldwide-it prevails among the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Tibetans, and Vietnames-and contains within it a number of movements, notably Zen which have been of growing interest in the West in recent decades. Yet despite this increased attention and enormous following, translations of Mahayana scriptures have been scarce and fragmentary; clearly, a comprehensive translation of a major work within the canon was called for. |
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A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Mahratnakta Sutra Garma C. C. Chang No preview available - 1984 |
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absolute accepted according to Madhva admit Advaita Advaitin aspects Atman attributes Avidya beginningless Bhakti bliss bondage Brahman BrhUp cognition commentary conception consciousness creation dependence difference distinction Divine doctrine essence eternal existence experience explained fact finite identity illusion illusory independent Indian philosophy inference interpretation intrinsic invalidity Jayatirtha Jiva Jñāna Karma knowledge logical Madhva Madhva's philosophy Madhva's theory Madhva's view material cause matter and souls Māyā memory metaphysical Mokṣa monistic nature negation Nirguna non-existent Nyaya object perception position Prakṛti Pramāņa Pratibimba Pratyakṣa principle question Rāmānuja reality reason reference regarded relation release Sadhanas Sākṣi Samavaya Samkhya Samsara Sankara Scripture sense silver spiritual Śrutis sublating substance substratum Supreme Sūtra Svatantra texts things thought tion true truth universe unreal upādāna Upadhis Upanisads validity Vedanta Viseṣas Vyasatīrtha इति एव तत्र तथा तस्य तु न च नहि भवति यथा यदि वा स्यात् हि
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Page 399 - Bhakti, not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
Page 340 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 27 - Unless Ramanuja is willing to explain away the immutable perfection of the Absolute, and substitute for it a perfectly changing process, a...
Page 389 - ... etc. and fortified by a firm conviction of the transcendent majesty and greatness of God as the abode of all perfections and free from all blemish and by an unshakable conviction of the complete metaphysical dependence of everything else upon Him.
Page 287 - But again I said, Who made me? Did not my God, who is not only good, but goodness itself? Whence then came I to will evil and nill good, so that I am thus justly punished? who set this in me, and ingrafted into me this plant of bitterness, seeing I was wholly formed by my most sweet God?
Page 143 - It is obvious that we often remember what we have seen or heard or had otherwise present to our senses, and that in such cases we are still immediately aware of what we remember, in spite of the fact that it appears as past and not as present.
Page 287 - And if he also by his own perverse will, of a good angel became a devil, whence, again, came in him that evil will, whereby he became a devil, seeing the whole...
Page 114 - ... that matter was made. But the impossibility of conceiving this is so manifest, that no one dares to assert it. For if space was created, it must have been previously non-existent. The non-existence of space cannot, however, by any mental effort be imagined.
Page 342 - Truth is bigger than our minds, and we are not the same with it, but have a lower participation only of the intellectual nature, and are rather apprehenders than comprehenders thereof.
Page xxvii - They have done it an injustice by classifying it under 'minor religious systems' belonging "more to the religious history than to the philosophical development of India" Every system of philosophy, in India, not excluding the Advaita, has its own religious basis and development.