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	Mahayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lokaksema's work includes the translation of the Pratyutpanna Sutra, containing the first known mentions of the Buddha Amitabha and his Pure Land, said to be at the origin of Pure Land practice in China, and the first known translations of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, a founding text of Mahayana Buddhism.
		Among the earliest major Mahayana scriptures that are attested to historically are the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajna-Paramita) Sutras, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Vimalakīrti Sutra, and the Nirvana Sutra.
		New texts, such as the Platform Sutra and the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment were explicitly not of Indian origin, but were widely accepted as valid scriptures on their own merits.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mahayana (1411 words)

	Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Nirvana Sutra, it is called by the Buddha the "True Self" (to distinguish it from the "false" worldly self of the five skandhas).
		In one of the Pali sutras belonging to the Theravada lineage of Buddhism, the Buddha says that vegetarianism is preferable, but as monks in ancient India were expected to receive all their food by begging they had little or no control over their diet.
		A long passage in the Lankavatara Sutra shows the Buddha weighing strongly in favor of vegetarianism, since the eating of the flesh of fellow sentient beings is said by him to be incompatible with the compassion that a Bodhisattva should strive to cultivate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhism (8523 words)

	Bodhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thus the "Sutra of Perfect Awakening" has the Buddha teach that, like gold within its ore, Bodhi is always there within the being's mind but requires the obscuring mundane ore (the surrounding defilements of samsara and of impaired, unawakened perception) to be removed.
		In the legends of Mahayana Buddhism, it was said that Queen Maya held a branch of one of these trees while resting in Lumbini Garden and her son, Siddhartha, was born.
		These are perfect, most developed, most compassionate, most loving, all knowing beings who fully comprehend the dhamma by their own efforts and wisdom and teach it skillfully to others, freeing them from Samsāra.
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	SUNY Press :: Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch'an, Son, and Zen).
		Contained in its twelve chapters are definitive explanations of the meaning of innate and actualized enlightenment, sudden and gradual enlightenment, the true nature of ignorance and suffering, along with numerous examples of methods of contemplation that accord with and reflect the basic Ch'an views on enlightenment and practice.
		Although the Sutra was popular throughout the East Asian region, it attained its highest canonical status within the Korean Chogye school, where it is still a key text in the core curriculum of modern-day monks and nuns.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=54044 (415 words)

	Bodhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bodhi is most commonly translated into English as enlightenment, though this translation is problematic, since enlightenment (the soul being "lit" by a higher power) is originally a concept from Christian mysticism or conversely evokes notions of the 18th century European Age of Enlightenment that are not identical with the Buddhist concept of Bodhi.
		Similar doctrines are encountered in the Tathagatagarbha sutras, which tell of the immanent presence of the Buddha Principle (Buddha-dhatu/ Buddha-nature) within all beings.
		Their skill in helping others to obtain enlightenment is inferior to that of the arhats, but one need to accumulate paramis in a much long time to become a pratyekabuddha than an Arhat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bodhi (747 words)

	Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment: Gihwa's Edition
		The sutra was extremely popular and influential within the meditation-oriented Buddhist schools of East Asia: first in Chinese Chan, where its influence was considerable, and then later in Korean Seon, where it grew in popularity to the extent that it was made part of the official monastic curriculum of the main Korean school, the Jogye.
		The term "perfect enlightenment," as it is taught in this text, refers to an enlightenment that is not limited in scope.
		He should say 'I hereby vow to dwell in the Perfect Enlightenment of the Buddha, to seek Genuine Teachers and not to plant roots with heterodox paths or practitioners of the Two Vehicles.' Practicing based on this vow, you sever the hindrances one by one.
	www.hm.tyg.jp /~acmuller/bud-canon/sutra_of_perfect_enlightenment.html (7466 words)

	Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This kind of structure reflects a motif associated with the doctrine of the Huayan school (華嚴宗), which affirms that the Buddha delivered the abstruse Avatamsaka Sutra (華嚴經) as his first sermon, in an effort to directly awaken those whose "roots of virtue" were well-matured.
		In the first two chapters (the chapters of Mañjuśrī; and Samantabhadra), the Buddha holds very strictly to the sudden position, denying the possibility of enlightenment through gradual practice.
		English Translation of the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/bud-canon/sutra_of_perfect_enlightenment.html)
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sutra_of_Perfect_Enlightenment (560 words)

	Enlightenment - Supreme Perfect Enlightenment of Tathagata Buddha Eye Of Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Enlightenment is the opening of one's eyes to what is. If someone attains Supreme Enlightenment, from that moment on they will come to see what is inside the principle that makes things of the world exist.
		An Enlightened Being says what is. If people accept what he says as important, like when they learn mathematics, they come to realize the fact that things in the world make results through a single principle.
		Even though the teaching of the Enlightened Being is very easily taught, people who don't open their eyes to the truth of the world always have difficulties in accepting the teaching and practising it.
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	MAHAYANA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because the Mahayana traditions assert that eventually everyone will achieve Samyaksam-Buddhahood or total enlightenment, the Mahayana is labelled universalist, whereas because the Nikaya traditions assert that there are three routes to Nirvana, which are distinct, they are considered not to be universalist.
		Some of them, such as the Perfection_of_Wisdom sutras, are presented as actual sermons of the Buddha that would have been hidden.
		Among the earliest major Mahayana scriptures that are attested to historically are the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajna-Paramita) Sutras, the Avatamsaka_Sutra, the Lotus_Sutra, the Vimalakīrti Sutra, and the Nirvana_Sutra.
	velocipay.com /Mahayana (1664 words)

	AAS Abstracts: China Session 25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rather, its purpose seems more commonly to be that of finding in the sutra, or imposing upon it, a kind of architectonic order, as though a commentary were a kind of outline or extended diagram of the scripture.
		Thus, when the commentaries speak for example, to the paramount theme of the sutra-the Buddha's insight (chih hui)-they all aver that such insight is inaccessible to all who have not themselves experienced the same.
		Failure to experience such insight, they all say, is a function of various false assumptions, but these are enumerated one after another in such a way as to demonstrate that they are all derive from a single underlying problem, viz., the failure to grasp the ultimate simplicity that consists in freedom from all concepts.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/china/csess25.htm (3200 words)

	Rhinoceros Sutra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		buddhism The Rhinoceros Sutra (Pali: Khaggavis N a-sutta) is a very early Buddhist Buddhist texts advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment (as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monks or nuns).
		The sutra, which consists of a series of verses which discuss both the perils of community life and the benefits of solitude, and almost all of which end with the admonition that seekers should wander alone like rhinoceros.
		There is an ongoing dispute over whether the title, sword-horn sutra, is to be taken as a tatpurusa compound (a sword which is a horn) or as a bahuvrihi compound (one who has a sword as a horn).
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Buddhist-texts/Rhinoceros-Sutra.html (317 words)

	Innate Enlightenment and No-thought
		The Perfect Enlightenment being described is not intended to be posited as one's eternal self, but as an inherent capacity for total awareness, unobstructed by prejudices and misconceptions derived from one's misunderstanding of the existence of self and objects.
		The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment is especially suitable for examination of this problem, since it is considered to be a quintessential "Innate Enlightenment" scripture -- a foundational text of the Ch'an school that remains influential in the Chinese and Korean meditative traditions to the present day.
		The next line of the sutra says "The illusory mind of sentient beings also vanishes based on illusion, and while all illusions are utterly erased, the Enlightened mind is unchanged." Here, the illusory mind does not disappear based upon its "source," but as the result of (dependently arisen) causes and conditions.
	www.geocities.com /upakaascetic/innate.html (6682 words)

	The EverLife Buddhist Education Center - Wisdom Hall
		On the basis of the sutra’s declaration that Perfect Enlightenment (i.e., Everlasting Life) interpenetrated mortality, Nichiren, the thirteenth century champion of the Lotus Sutra, observed that human beings universally possessed the same fundamental identity that all buddhas shared.
		The appearance of a boundless "Lotus in the Sky" in the text of this sutra confirmed for Nichiren that at the nexus of the origin and culmination of All Existence, selfless volunteers possessing the essential Wisdom (of Everlasting Life) would be born in human form in the present.
		In this sutra the buddhas from throughout all directions of existence left their domains and traveled to a wondrous land he had prepared to receive them so that they may witness Sakyamuni impart the "ultimate teaching of all buddhas." For no other sutra, did they leave their lands.
	www.everlife.org /doctrines_frame.htm (2766 words)

	gihwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among his writings, there are four works in particular that made a deep impact on the subsequent Seon tradition in Korea.
		These are (1) his commentary on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, the Weongak gyeong hae seorui; (2) his redaction and subcommentary to five famous earlier commentaries on the Diamond Sutra, the Geumgang banyabaramilgyeong ogahae seorui; (3) his subcommentary and redaction of the Collection of Yongjia, the Yonggajip gwaju seorui and (4) the Hyeonjeong non.
		Gihwa's commentary on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment was translated by Charles Muller, in 1999.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Gihwa.html (329 words)

	Inner Chamber - The Gateway
		From the perspective of the Lotus Sutra, the Lotus blossom and seedpod depict that a single instant of Life is the repository (seedpod) of an eternity of past causes and future effects.
		While the pursuit of Perfect Enlightenment is most admirable, the attempt to attain it by using mental calisthenics is futile.
		However, as the Buddha desired nothing less than universal Perfect Enlightenment for all, he revealed in the Lotus Sutra that the essence of Eternal Life was accessible to all the living.
	www.everlife.org /gateway.htm (1731 words)

	ipedia.com: Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment Buddhist Stra;, original Chinese title is Yuanjue jing ; 1 fasc..
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		Muller, A. Charles The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation.
	www.ipedia.com /sutra_of_perfect_enlightenment.html (517 words)

	Han-shan's Heart Sutra Commentary
		Here it is termed "still extinction" and also as "perfect stillness." This refers to perfectly ridding oneself of [the delusions corresponding to] the five dwelling stations and to achieving the eternal peace of still extinction.
		The speed of experiencing its efficacy resides specifically in the inconceivable and ineffable power which comes from forgetting one's emotions and cutting off [the pursuit of] understanding.
		Thus the reason for the speed of experiencing its beneficial effects lies in the originally existing light of the mind which is possessed by everyone.
	www.kalavinka.org /jewels/hanshan/hsheart1.htm (5113 words)

	LIST OF SUTRAS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Below is a list of sutras organized alphabetically under the broad categories of Hinduism and Buddhism.
		Note that there is considerable difficulty in fixing the period of the various sutras.
		1930) in 1992, which presents 20th_century environmental concerns and convictions in the form of a Buddhist sutra.
	velocipay.com /List_of_sutras (180 words)

	Shikantaza
		The suttas indicate that on the night of his Enlightenment, he sat down under the Bodhi Tree and began his meditation by practising the Jhanas (for example, see the Mahasaccaka Sutta - Majjhima Nikaya #36).
		Sitting as the Buddha sat, with the mind void of all conceptions, of all beliefs and points of view, is the actualization or unfoldment of the inherently Enlightened Bodhimind with which all are endowed.
		They prefer to have him first unify his mind through concentration on counting the breaths; or where a burning desire for Enlightenment does exist, to exhaust the discursive intellect through the imposition of a special type of Zen problem called a Koan and thus prepare the way for Kensho.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/shikantaza.html (2615 words)

	Manual of Zen Buddhism: III. The Sutras
		This sutra is said to have been given by Bodhidharma to his chief disciple Hui-k'e as containing the essential teaching of Zen.
		There is the attachment to discrimination itself, and to that arising from enlightenment the attachment to the discrimination of being and non-being on which the philosophers are so dependent, and the attachment to the triple vehicle and the one vehicle, which they discriminate.
		By Vipasyana is meant that the Yogin is first to awaken the desire for enlightenment, to be firmly determined in living the life of Bodhisattvahood, and to have an illuminating idea as regards the source of the evil passions which are always ready to assert themselves in the Tathagata-garbha.
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	Articles - Mahayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is based on a subtle doctrinal distinction between the Mahayana and Nikaya traditions concerning the issues of Nirvana-with-remainder and Nirvana-without-remainder.
		The Nikaya traditions considered that Nirvana-without-remainder always follows Nirvana-with-remainder (Buddhas first achieve enlightenment and then mahaparinirvana at 'death') and that Nirvana-without-remainder is final; Whereas the Mahayana traditions consider that Nirvana-without-remainder is always followed by Nirvana-with-remainder – the state of Sravaka-Buddhahood is not final, and is eventually succeeded by the state of Samyaksam-Buddhahood, or total enlightenment.
		The formal rise of Mahayana Buddhism has been dated to around the middle of the 2nd century CE, when the Kushan emperor Kanishka convened the 4th Buddhist Council in Gandhara, which confirmed the formal scission of Mahayana Buddhism from the traditional Nikaya schools of Buddhism.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Mahayana (1739 words)

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		These, and many other related questions have continued to rise in the minds of meditation practitioners of Chan, Sôn and Zen Buddhism since the earliest stages in the development of these traditions, and it is in response to such questions that the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Chinese: Yuanjue jing) was composed.
		In addition to detailed guidance on the undertaking of Chan contemplation, the sutra offers concise discussions of the fundamental philosophical grounds which underlie such practices, in the form of question and answer sessions between the Buddha and twelve prominent bodhisattvas.
		The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment is translated here in full, along with the eloquent and revealing commentary of the early Chosôn monk Kihwa (1376-1433).
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	Cleary [u.a.]: Apocryphal scriptures [Indologica]
		The Sutra of Forty-two Sections is a compilation of brief passages drawn from many Buddhist sutras, including PÄli and Chinese Buddhist sources, particularly the Ägamas (canonical texts).
		The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, especially important in the Chan and Huayan traditions in China, deals with teaching of intrinsic enlightenment - the potentiality for Buddhahood shared by all sentient beings - that became a fundamental axiom on which uniquely East Asian forms of Buddhist belief and practice developed.
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