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Dhāraṇī sutras are Mahayana sutras that focus on specific dhāraṇīs (recitations, chants, incantations, spells), which are mostly in some form of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Dhāraṇīs are understood as having various magical powers, including protection against evil, purification, promotion of good rebirth, generation of merit, and even ...
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List of Digha Nikaya suttas; List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas; List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas; List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas; ... List of sutras; Mahayana sutras
In East Asian Mahayana, one of the most widely chanted texts is the Heart Sutra. Holy sites and temples: Indian Mahayana Buddhists often performed devotional practices in specific holy sites, which often included stupas, temples, shrines with Buddha statues and other shrines and Buddhist caves.
[4] [5] The texts of the sutra seem to have been collected over a number of centuries, and their varying subject matter is suggestive of historical transitions between major eras of Buddhist thought. [1] The collection may have developed from a "Bodhisattva pitaka" attributed to some of the early Mahayana schools. [1]
Some of the earliest and most important Mahayana sutras are the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras, many of which survive in Sanskrit manuscripts. [23] [24] Various scholars have argued that many of these Prajñāpāramitā sutras may have developed among the Mahāsāṃghika tradition in the Āndhra region of South India (circa 1st century BCE).
Sutra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, romanized: sūtra, lit. 'string, thread') [1] in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text. Sutras are a genre of ancient and medieval Indian texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. [1] [2]
The Ten Stages Sutra (Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra; simplified Chinese: 十地经; traditional Chinese: 十地經; pinyin: shí dì jīng; Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པའི་མདོ། Wylie: phags pa sa bcu pa'i mdo) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The ...