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The earliest Buddhist texts were orally composed and transmitted in Middle Indo-Aryan dialects called Prakrits. [8] [9] [10] Various parallel passages in the Buddhist Vinayas state that when asked to put the sutras into chandasas the Buddha refused and instead said the teachings could be transmitted in sakāya niruttiyā (Skt. svakā niruktiḥ).
As one linguist who studied the Sanskrit and Khotanese versions of the Sanghāta put it, "the cryptic aspects of the sutra also extend to its title." In standard Sanskrit, sanghāta is a term meaning the 'fitting and joining of timbers' or 'the work done by a carpenter in joining two pieces of wood,' and can refer to carpentry in general.
Each three-line group consists of C S, a line of Sanskrit in handwriting that imitates an East Indian style of the Devanagari script; C T, a line of transliteration of the Sanskrit into dbu can Tibetan letters; and C tr, a line of translation into Tibetan, using dbu med letters. The C tr translation, however, is not of the Sanskrit of the first ...
dhamma name/dharma name A Dharma name or Dhamma name is a new name traditionally bestowed by a Buddhist monastic, given to newly ordained monks, nuns, and laity during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation ritual in Mahayana Buddhism and monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it may also be called a Sangha name). Dhamma names are ...
The word dhāraṇī derives from a Sanskrit root √dhṛ meaning "to hold or maintain". [3] [30] This root is likely derived from the historical Vedic religion of ancient India, where chants and melodious sounds were believed to have innate spiritual and healing powers even if the sound cannot be translated and has no meaning (as in a music).
The Buddhist term sutta or sutra likely derives from Sanskrit sūkta (su + ukta), meaning "well spoken," reflecting the belief that "all that was spoken by the Lord Buddha was well-spoken". [8] They embody the essence of sermons conveying "well-spoken" wisdom, akin to the Jain sutras.
hearing the names of certain Buddhas or bodhisattvas, or reciting their name; maintaining Buddhist precepts, including new bodhisattva precepts; listening to, memorizing, reciting, preaching, worshiping and copying Mahāyāna sūtras, rejoicing (anumodana) in the collected meritorious actions of all previous Buddhas and other beings.
According to Nguyen Dac Sy, the most important doctrines of the Laṅkāvatāra are the primacy of consciousness (Skt. vijñānavada), the teaching that consciousness as the only reality and that "all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are manifestations of the mind" as well as the "identification of the Buddha ...