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LANKAVATAR SUTRA:
The Lankavatara Sutra is a
sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. According to tradition, these are the actual words
of the Buddha as he entered Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) and conversed
with a bodhisattva named Mahamati. This sutra figured prominently in the
development of Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism. The Lankavatara Sutra is
the cornerstone of Chinese Chán and its Japanese version, Zen, and was
translated from Sanskrit into Japanese and English by the lauded exponent of
Zen, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki.
The most important doctrine issuing from the Lanka is that of the primacy of
consciousness, often called simply "Mind Only", meaning that consciousness is
the only reality. The sutra asserts that all the objects of the world, and the
names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind. It is the
erroneous concept of subject/object that ties us to the wheel of rebirth.
It represents a syncretism (reconciliation
or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion,
especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous.)
between tathagatagarbha thought and the Yogachara school.
01.
Discrimination
02.
False Imagination or Knowledge of Appearance
03.
Right Knowledge
04.
Perfect Knowledge or Knowledge of Reality
05.
The Mind System
06.
Transcendental Intelligence
07.
Self Realization
08.
Discipleship, Bodhisattvahood and its stages
09.
Tathagatahood or Buddhahood or Noble Wisdom
10.
Nirvana
MAHAPRAJNA PARAMITA HRIDAYA (HEART SUTRA)प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय
The Essence of Wisdom Sutra (Heart Sutra) is much shorter than the other Perfection of Wisdom Sutras but it contains explicitly or implicitly the entire meaning of the longer Sutras.
DIAMOND SUTRA (VAJRACHEDIKA)
The Diamond Sutra (although a more accurate translation of the Sanskrit title might be, for instance, the Vajra Cutter Sutra) is a short Mahayana sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom (prajna-paramita) genre, which teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment.
As explained in the Preface to the Self-realisation of Noble Wisdom, this Sutra was greatly used from the very beginning by the founders of the Zen Sect concurrently with the LANKAVATARA, but because of the greater difficulties of the latter, it gradually displaced it, and after the Tenth Century was almost exclusively used as its chief Sutra. Its chief teaching that all phenomenal things and definitive ideas are subjective and a manifestation of one's own mind, that even the Scriptures are "empty," largely explains the characteristic tenets of the Zen Sect:
"A special transmission
outside the Scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;
Direct pointing to one's deepest consciousness;
Seeing into one's nature and the attainment of Buddahood."
Diamond Sutra contains the mysteries of the followings:
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DANA PARAMITA--IDEAL CHARITY,
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SILA PARAMITA--IDEAL BEHAVIOR,
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KSHANTI PARAMITA--IDEAL PATIENCE,
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VIRYA PARAMITA--IDEAL ZEAL,
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DHYANA PARAMITA--IDEAL TRANQUILLITY and
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PRAJNA PARAMITA--IDEAL WISDOM
BUDDHA
His former lives:
The Gospel of Buddha:
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Buddha as Omnipresent; one aim one law - Nirvana; Teaching to his son - Rahula; Stupid abuses Buddha
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