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The following are English translations of the Lankavatara sutra. From the Sanskrit edition: [42] Thomas Cleary. The Lankavatara Sutra. The Heart of Buddhism. Translated from the original Sanskrit. 2012. From the four-fascicle Chinese edition of Gunabhadra and the Sanskrit (restored on the basis of Gunabhadra's translation): [42] Gishin Tokiwa.
The Dhammapada (Pali: धम्मपद; Sanskrit: धर्मपद, romanized: Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. [1]
It has a specialized use in a few Buddhist Sanskrit texts, where it means 'vessel' or 'jar,' and this image of 'something that contains' is evoked several times within the sutra, when Buddha calls the Sanghāta a 'treasury of Dharma.'
A guide to the topic of emptiness from a Tibetan Buddhist perspective, with English translation of the Heart Sutra 2009 ISBN 978-0-86171-511-4: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso: The New Heart of Wisdom: An explanation of the Heart Sutra: Tharpa Publications: English translation of the Heart Sutra with commentary 2012 ISBN 978-1-906665-04-3: Karl Brunnholzl
"For hate is never conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love. This is an eternal law." — Buddha "Your mind is Nirvana." — Bodhidharma "The greatest achievement is selflessness.
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).
The mantra was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Guṇabhadra (Sanskrit; Chinese: 求那跋陀羅, 394–468) from central India. It is usually recited 21, 27 or 49 times per day. [ 2 ] In one type of group practice, participants usually recite this mantra three times after reciting the Heart Sutra or the Amitabha Sutra .
In 1970, R. E. Emmerick produced an English translation of the short, condensed Sanskrit version of the Sutra of Golden Light into English. [19] In Tibetan, there are three versions of the Sutra: the 21, 29, and 31 chapter versions. The 29 Chapter Version was probably the most popular in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhist regions. [citation needed]