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The Dilun scholar Jingying Huiyuan (淨影慧遠, J. Jōyō Eon) wrote the earliest extant Chinese commentary to the Sutra of Immeasurable Life. [9] Jizang (549-623) of the Sanlun school, also wrote an early commentary on this sutra. [9] In Japan, the 12th-century Pure Land scholar Hōnen wrote four separate commentaries on the sutra. [8]
According to MĀ 204 (but not MN 26), as well as the Theravāda Vinaya, an Ekottarika-āgama text, the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, the Mahīśāsaka Vinaya, and the Mahāvastu, the Buddha then taught them the "first sermon", also known as the "Benares sermon", [209] i.e., the teaching of "the noble eightfold path as the middle path aloof from the two ...
This darkness can be destroyed by light of knowledge. Knowledge of self is liberation. The path that uproots the causes of bondage of karma and embodiment is the path of liberation. The path of liberation lies in destroying craving, aversion and ignorance, which are knots of karmic bondage. [35]
The Contemplation Sutra, translated into English by J. Takakusu; English translation of the Contemplation Sutra Archived 2021-01-22 at the Wayback Machine; The Taima Mandala Image of the Pure Land from a medieval Japanese scroll, based on the descriptions found in the Contemplation Sutra. This site offers explanations in English of the various ...
The brahmavihārā (sublime attitudes, lit. "abodes of Brahma") is a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Pāli: appamaññā) [1] or four infinite minds (Chinese: 四無量心). [2]
There is an enormous difference between a path created with the ordinary mind and a path created through wisdom." [ 45 ] The non-sectarian Jamgon Kongtrul (1813–1899) originally pointed out the importance, particularly in dzogchen, of establishing the correct view or experience of the view at the outset, whether based on directly heard, or on ...
Learning more about his history could help determine a motive and provide a fuller story for the jury, but prosecutors don’t need to do so to make their case, said Hermann Walz, a former ...
An image of the Buddha in samadhi from Gal Vihara, Sri Lanka Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh. Samādhi (Pali and Sanskrit: समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.