30 Sep 2021
This sūtra describes the thirty-eight weeks of human gestation. It discusses conception, the composition of the embryo, the gestation period, the newborn being, the course of life and its sufferings, and the need to practice for one’s own good and the good of others.
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30 Sep 2021
此經中，佛陀為同父異母的兄弟難陀詳細分析胎兒於三十八週妊娠期間的發展。
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23 Sep 2021
此經中，年輕商人吉祥世問佛：初地菩薩應如何於日常中行菩薩道？佛陀聞其所問甚是歡喜並給予有關大乘菩薩道利他之發心和修持的精要建言。
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23 Sep 2021
In The Questions of Śrīvasu, the Buddha is approached by a young merchant named Śrīvasu, who requests instruction on how to live his life as a novice bodhisattva. Delighted by this request, the Buddha offers some pithy advice regarding the bodhisattva path that neatly summarizes the principal altruistic aims and practices of the Great Vehicle.
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16 Sep 2021
The Seal of Engagement in Awakening the Power of Faith consists of two lengthy discourses that address two separate inquiries voiced by the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. At the beginning of the sūtra, the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī requests the Buddha to show how his followers should practice in order to attain the first bodhisattva level.
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9 Sep 2021
Subhūti sets off for town to collect alms. Eventually he arrives at the home of Strīvivarta, who immediately poses challenging questions to the monk on a series of profound subjects. In exchange after exchange, Subhūti does his best to reply to the laywoman, but she continuously confronts him with ever more provocative questions.
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9 Sep 2021
此經記述佛陀的大弟子須菩提在托缽乞食途中與他人相遇時的對談，當中以與一名為轉女身的女菩薩之間的談話為主。
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2 Sep 2021
Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings is a step-by-step contemplation of all facets of reality and freedom from suffering. It starts with the five aggregates that constitute the common basis of defilement and purification and goes through the teachings on selflessness, the path to realize selflessness, and the higher stages of realization, and it culminates in the special features that belong exclusively to a fully awakened buddha.
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