Niết Bàn) or Nirvana Sutra for short, is an influential Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture of the Buddha-nature class. The original title of the sutra was Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra...

up nirvana. Writing on this Mahayana understanding of nirvana, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous state: 'The Nirvana Sutra claims for nirvana the...

biographical event, the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa sūtra was written hundreds of years later. The Nirvana Sutra does not give details of the historical event...

[citation needed] The Kalpa Sutra is ascribed to Bhadrabahu, traditionally said to have composed it some 150 years after the Nirvāṇa (samadhi) of Mahavira....

H. Sharf "Nirvana Sutra": full text of "Nirvana Sutra", plus appreciation of its teachings. and Nirvana Sutra (2,6 MB) The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra A Mahāyāna...

into final Nirvana (he only appeared to do so as upāya), but is still active teaching the Dharma. The earliest known Sanskrit title for the sūtra is the Saddharma...

Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Great Final Nirvana Sutra, c. 200 CE), very influential in Chinese Buddhism Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Descent into Lanka Sutra, 3rd century CE), integrating...

Buddhism[permanent dead link] (log in with userID "guest") Appreciation of the Nirvana Sutra and Tathagatagarbha teachings An English translation by 84000: Translating...

sūtras include the Lotus Sutra, the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Lankavatara Sutra, the Pure Land Sutras, and the Nirvana Sutra...

Nirvana (/nɪərˈvɑːnə/ neer-VAH-nə, /-ˈvænə/ -⁠VAN-ə, /nɜːr-/ nur-; Sanskrit: निर्वाण nirvāṇa [nɪrʋaːɳɐ]; Pali: nibbāna; Prakrit: ṇivvāṇa; literally, "blown...

Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body. Passages from the recitations of Nibbana Sutta or Nirvana Sutra describing the Buddha's...

in Chinese Buddhism include: Lotus Sutra, Flower Ornament Sutra, Vimalakirtī Sutra, Nirvana Sutra, and Amitābha Sutra. Chinese Buddhism is the largest institutionalized...

Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra to be the wisdom that perceives reality directly without conceptual attachment, thereby achieving nirvana. The sutra concludes with...

Sutra (Sanskrit: Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra) is a Mahāyāna (Buddhist) sutra from the genre of Prajñāpāramitā ('perfection of wisdom') sutras....

Appreciation of the Nirvana Sutra and Tathagatagarbha teachings "Tathagatagarbha Buddhism": the full text of the "Tathagatagarbha Sutra" plus text of 4 other...

illusions and Nirvāṇa, are dreams and Nirvāṇa." This is connected to the impermanence and insubstantial nature of dharmas. The Prajñāpāramitā sutras give the...

विमलकीर्तिनिर्देश) (sometimes referred to as the Vimalakīrti Sūtra or Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra) is a Buddhist text which centers on a lay Buddhist meditator...

states that buddhānusmṛti can lead to the unconditioned, nirvana, as well as magic power. This sutra explains that a monk should sit down and "contemplates...

Dharmakṣema in a debate that lasted ten days. He was given a copy of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra by the old monk and this is reported to have been the trigger of his...

Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which in that short form appears to deny the Buddha-nature to icchantikas; the long version of the Nirvana Sutra, however (not yet...

Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-30. Nirvana Sutra, Kosho Yamamoto's English translation of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra...

(represented by the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras 般若經). Lotus-Nirvāṇa period 法華涅槃時, Lotus sutra and Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, a teaching that is neither sudden nor...

said[by whom?] that the Iroha is a transformation of these verses in the Nirvana Sutra: 諸行無常 是生滅法 生滅滅已 寂滅為楽 which translates into All acts are impermanent...

Essentials of the Nirvana Sutra (Yeolban jong-yo 涅槃宗要) Exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-sūtra. Commentary on the Flower Ornament Sutra (Hwaeom- gyeong so...

similarities with the Nirvana sutra, and teaches that the Buddha is eternal and does not really pass into parinirvāṇa. The Mahāmegha Sūtra was translated into...

The Great Drum Sūtra (MBhS, Sanskrit: *Mahābherisūtra; Chinese: 大法鼓經, Dà fǎ gǔ jīng, or *Mahābherīhārakaparivartasūtra, Sutra Chapter on the Beater of...

Sutra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, romanized: sūtra, lit. 'string, thread') in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the...

White Lotus Sutra, and refers to any effective method or technique that is conducive to spiritual growth and leads beings to awakening and nirvana. This doctrine...

mountain." Ummon asked the head monk, "What sutra are you lecturing on?" "The Nirvana Sutra." "The Nirvana Sutra has the Four Virtues, hasn't it?" "It has...

The Liṅga-avatāra Sūtra (Sanskrit: लिङ्गअवतारसूत्र, "Discourse of the Descent into Liṅga", Standard Tibetan: ལང་ཀར་བཤེགས་པའི་མདོ་, Chinese: 入楞伽經) is a...