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    Buddhism. It is often referred to in short as the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. In Classical Sanskrit, avataṃsaka means garland, wreath, or any circular ornament,...
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    including several commentaries on the Avatamsaka. He also worked on a new translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra (in collaboration with various figures...
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  • has been influenced by sutras such as the Lankavatara Sutra, the Vimalakirti Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra. Subsequently, the Zen tradition...
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    Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The sutra also appears as the 26th chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Modern Buddhist...
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    Buddhism.[citation needed] He is the patron of the Lotus Sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva...
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    Vajrayana Buddhism. Vairocana is often interpreted, in texts like the Avatamsaka Sutra, as the dharmakāya of the historical Gautama Buddha. In East Asian...
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    Mahāyāna sūtras include the Lotus Sutra, the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Lankavatara Sutra, the Pure Land Sutras, and the Nirvana...
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    Blessed One teaches the Dhamma for the sake of crossing over. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra, a large composite text, contains various passages discussing the practices...
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    The Heart Sūtra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya or Chinese: 心經 Xīnjīng, Tibetan: བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ)...
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    teaching. Other influential sutras are the Vimalakirti Sutra, Avatamsaka Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra, and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra. In his analysis of the...
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    Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra and Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Another major text, the Awakening of Faith, was originally composed in China, while the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra was...
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    commentaries and sub-commentaries to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Huayan jing), as well as for his translation of a new Gandhavyuha sutra version, together with the Indian...
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    natural state of the mind. According to Wayman, the teachings of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (1st–3rd century CE), which say that the Buddha's knowledge is all...
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    of an extended edition of the Gaṇḍavyūha sūtra. He also composed an original commentary on the Avatamsaka Sutra, called the Huayan jing tanxuan ji (Record...
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    Buddhism. Mahāratnakūta Sūtra – Actually a collection of various sūtras. Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra (or Golden Light Sutra). Avataṃsaka Sūtra – A compilation of...
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  • Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, pp. 891-92. Shambala Publications. Cleary. The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, 1993, page...
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    "신라백지묵서대방광불화엄경 주본 권1~10, 44~50" [Silla Transcription of Avatamsaka Sutra The Flower Garland Sutra, Zhou Version, in Ink on White Paper, Volumes 1-10 and...
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  • Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. Some of his main works are: The Avatamsaka Sutra (Chinese: 華嚴經) The Heart Sutra (Chinese: 大乘理趣六波羅密多經) The Mahayana Sutra of Mind...
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    teachings of the Avatamsaka sutra and Huayan metaphysics. For Peng Shaosheng, Amitabha and Vairocana (the Buddha of the Avatamsaka) were identical, and...
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    (transcendent wisdom). The Lotus Sutra assigns him a pure land called Vimala, which according to the Avatamsaka Sutra is located in the East. His pure...
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    longer Brahmajala Sutra very much resembled the Avataṃsaka Sutra that was already translated, the translators of the Brahmajala Sutra only translated the...
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  • Chinese, and was responsible for the first Chinese translation of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra (Flower Ornament Scripture) in the 5th century. In China he is often...
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    after Śikṣānanda had completed his 80-fascicle translation of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.: 8  This translation is said to have employed five separate Sanskrit...
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  • He was a devotee of the Avatamsaka Sutra and was critical of the philosophy of Xuanzang. Zhiyan lectured on the Avatamsaka Sutra at Yunhua Temple and was...
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    Āryatriskandha sūtra Āryasaṃghāṭa sūtra Bhavasaṅkrānti sūtra Catuṣpariṣat sūtra Lalitavistaraḥ Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Descent into Lanka) Mahāmegha sūtra Mahāparinirvāṇa...
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    Guanyin (redirect from Sutra of Kuan Yin)
    to her, as is mentioned in the Pumen chapter of the Lotus Sutra and the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra. Several large temples in East Asia are dedicated to Guanyin...
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    The Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Chinese: 首楞嚴經; pinyin: Shǒulèngyán jīng, Sūtra of the Heroic March) (Taisho no. 945) is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that has been especially...
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  • buddha Vairocana. Kang-nam Oh traces the origin of dharmadhatu to the Avatamsaka Sutra. It has been further developed by the Hua-yen school: This idea of...
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    Golden Light Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Sandhinirmocana Sutra and the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras. According to David Drewes, Mahāyāna sutras contain several...
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  • com/. Retrieved 25 January 2024. "City of 10,000 Buddhas - Sutra Texts - The Avatamsaka Sutra 40". Cttbusa.org. Retrieved 15 August 2018. Wikiquote has...
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