17 Sep 2020
For a period of about a thousand years after the beginning of the common era, The Teaching of Akṣayamati had a significant influence on Buddhist thought. The eighty so-called “imperishabilities” (akṣaya) described in the sūtra—qualities to be possessed by the bodhisatvas—were considered to contain the whole way of religious development of the Mahāyāna.
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10 Sep 2020
經中首先記敘文殊師利與舍利弗的一段對話，談到禪修中的「住」、法性與真如，由此引出文殊師利與眾比丘的對話，藉此糾正眾比丘的錯誤見解。
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10 Sep 2020
The Dwelling Place of Mañjuśrī follows a dialogue between Mañjuśrī and Śāriputra regarding the activity of “dwelling” during meditation, the nature of dharmas, and the “true nature.”
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3 Sep 2020
此經中， 在化現洪水的神變瑞相後，海意菩薩從另一剎土來到王舍城，與釋迦牟尼佛探討法義，包括「淨印三摩地」，以及發菩提心、行菩薩道等相關的許多話題。
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3 Sep 2020
The Questions of Sāgaramati begins in a courtyard in the city of Rājagṛha, where the Buddha Śākyamuni, a celestial bodhisattva named Sāgaramati, and many other gods and bodhisattvas converse on a wide variety of subjects relevant to the Great Vehicle.
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1 Sep 2020
This evocative and inspiring short text in verse is one of several works in the Kangyur related to the Buddha’s restoring the city of Vaiśālī to health after a major epidemic. A substantial portion of it is very similar to a passage in the Sanskrit Mahāvastu, and to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta.
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27 Aug 2020
《大集寶幢陀羅尼經》是大乘《大方等大集經》的主要經文之一，其歷史可追溯到大乘佛教形成的時期，約公元一至三世紀。 經文敘述了釋迦牟尼佛與他的弟子和反對者（包括人和非人）前世今生的生平事跡，其豐富多樣的敘事可能是由兩部以上不同來源的作品編輯而成。這些敘事圍繞著佛陀生平的重要事蹟展開——魔羅意圖摧毀佛陀和他的教法。兩者所代表的光明與黑暗的對峙，以及佛陀最終的勝利，在故事中有生動細緻的描述。
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27 Aug 2020
The Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī is one of the core texts of the Mahāsannipāta collection of Mahāyāna sūtras that dates back to the formative period of Mahāyāna Buddhism, from the first to the third century ᴄᴇ.
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