Perhaps the Nyoihoju may be identified with the Gem-Treasure Veluriya, mentioned in the Sutra of The Great King of Glory, chapter i.
More sweetly sounds the crying of one's own child than even the chanting of the sutra in the service for the dead.
Unconsciously those millions of millions of tiny beings are preaching the ancient wisdom of the East,--the perpetual Sutra of Impermanency.
Tradition says that he expired holding a sword in his right hand, the Hokke-kyo-sutra in his left, and that Kitabatake Chikafusa spoke of the event as a dream within a dream.
The Hina-yana Sutra is intended for beginners; the Maha-yana for those more advanced in the path of the law.
Here, it must suffice to say that he found no peace of mind until a visit to China brought comprehension of a Sutra which he had vainly studied in Japan.
Their chief functions were to expound the Sutraand to offer prayers.
Lankavatara: sutra believed by Bodhidharma to best express Ch'an philosophy.
An early novice in the Tendai monastery, he took a different tack from the Amida teachers, deciding that all essential Buddhist truth was contained in the Lotus Sutra itself.
Some years later, when Bodhidharma was preparing to leave China, he left this pupil his copy of the Lankavatara Sutra and bade him continue the teachings of meditation.
He then summoned Hui-neng late at night, expounded the Diamond Sutra to him, and presented him with the robe and begging bowl of Bodhidharma-- together with advice to flee south in the interest of safety.
Finally we are told that the Kama Sutra was composed for the benefit of the world by Vatsyayana, while leading the life of a religious student, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity.
Of these seven books two only were issued, namely the Kama Sutraand the Ananga Ranga or Lila Shastra.
Still, a man who could not kiss properly after reading the Kama Sutra would be a dullard indeed.
In the Kalpa-sutra of the Jains we read that Maha-vira himself began his career by wearing clothes for one year and one month, and after that he walked about naked.
But they marry with Rig-Vedis, though the Sutra belongs to the Black Yajur-Vedi.
A subdivision of Brahmans following that Sutra and forming a caste subdivision.
Thus the earliest Buddhist work rendered into Chinese is said to be the sutra of forty-two sections, translated by Kâśyapa Mâtanga in 67 A.
This sutra is quoted by name in the Śikshâsamuccaya and fragments of the Sanskrit text have been found in Turkestan.
In Aśvaghosha[123] we find the story of a Brahman who casually taking up a book to pass the time lights on a copy of the Sutra of the Twelve Causes and is converted.
This doctrine was supported by reference to the sutra known as the Burden and the Burden bearer.
But the Bodhisattvas in the Lotus or the Sutra of the Happy Land have a doctrinal significance.
It is the Japanese pronunciation of the title of a very short sutra translated out of Sanscrit into Chinese by the Indian priest Amoghavajra, probably during the eighth century.
When she dies they will give her an humble funeral, and have a sutra recited on behalf of her spirit.
The shop-boy in front of the temple-gate repeats the sutra which he never learned.
Opening the sutra hastily, with trembling hand, he began again to recite it aloud.
By constantly hearing the sutra chanted in the temple, the boy learns to repeat the words.
A study of this condensed and widely read Buddhist Sutra will convince anyone that the ultimate conceptions of the universe and of the final reality, are as described above.
On hearing that, I, with the levity which is so natural to mankind, guessed the next sutra and uttered it myself.
So that holy god, manifested before me, recited the sutra beginning 'the traditional doctrine of letters.
Selected portions of this biography are related in Yampolsky, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; and Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, which form the basis for much of the historical information reported here.
The reliability of this text should be questioned, however, if we accept Philip Yampolsky's essay in Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, p.
The best discussion of the significance of these finds and of Hu Shih's lifelong interpretive work is provided by Yampolsky, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.
From Price and Wong, Diamond Sutra and the Sutraof Hui-neng, p.
Selections from The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Philip Yamplosky, trans.
In the Sutra it is said not to worry over ills that may happen to you.
During the night, however, he summoned young Hui-neng to the darkened meditation hall, where he expounded the Diamond Sutra to him and then ceremonially passed to him the robe of Bodhidharma, symbol of the patriarchy.
This teacher, the stranger said, taught that by reciting the Diamond Sutra it was possible to see into one's own nature and to directly experience enlightenment.
The Smaller Pragna-Paramita-Hridaya-Sutra is thus called in Japanese.
In the neighboring bamboo-grove I hear the flute-call of the bird that praises the Sutra of the Lotos; and the land is very still by reason of the south wind.
Roer, in his version of the Bhasha-Parichchheda, has mistranslated an importantSutra which bears on this point.
We grant this, and hence the venerable Rama Kantha has explained that sutrain its literal meaning [i.
Recitation of the sutra for seven continuous days; proper inhumation of the substitute beyond possibility of disturbance, would surely lay a spell on the enraged lady, and put an end to the curse of one dying an unworshipped spirit.
With at least one member of the committee in attendance, to see that he played fair, for seven days vigorously was the sutra intoned by the loudest and most brazen of his subordinates, backed by the whole body of priests.
He shaved his head, becoming a priest to recite and preach the sutraof the Lady Kwannon.
As the last word reverberated on the bishop's lips they seized the sutra wrapped bamboo, slipped it in the long box--bum!
I will ascend that rock; read the sutra of the Lady Kwannon.
He glanced at the pages of the sutralying before him.
Four men carried the sambo, or sacred tray of white wood, on which rested the section of bamboo wrapped by the hands of Shu[u]den himself in the sacred roll of the sutra of Kwannon.
The Phit Sutra (later than Patanjali) gives rules for the accentuation of nouns (ed.
It is neither old nor original, but was undoubtedly compiled in order to supply the Atharva, like the other Vedas, with a Sutra of its own.
That Sutras on Dharma were composed at a very early period is shown by the fact that Yaska, who dates from near the beginning of the Sutra age, quotes legal rules in the Sutra style.
The Crauta Sutraof the Atharva-veda is the Vaitana Sutra.
Panini had before him a list of irregularly formed words, which survives, in a somewhat modified form, as the Unadi Sutra (ed.
The latter has indeed been shown to contain passages based on or borrowed from Gautama's work, which is therefore the oldest Dharma Sutra that has been preserved, or at least published, and can hardly date from later than about 500 B.
The other, brahma-veda, has outside the Atharvan literature only been found once, and that in a Grihya Sutra of the Rigveda.
Both parts are very late, for they were composed after the Vaitana Sutra and practically without any Atharvan tradition.
Its position, however, within the Kalpa Sutra of its school is not so fixed as in the two previous cases.
The term Kalpa Sutra is used to designate the whole body of Sutras concerned with religion which belonged to a particular Vedic school.
The Sutra of Baudhayana, who is older than Apastamba, as well as that of Bharadvaja, has not yet been published.
By the divine promise to the dying of His consoling presence our Lord instructeth men that they shall make to grow all righteousness revealed in the Sutra of Meditation upon the Buddha of Infinite Life.
By the Divine Promise of the final salvation hath our Lord instructed the men of the Single Vehicle to recite His Holy Name that is the Essence of all the merit revealed in the Lesser Sutra of the Buddha of Infinite Life.
He that hath unending pity, the Buddha of Infinite Life, hath given unto us in the Sutra of Golden Light a teaching concerning long life, that the way of long life and the welfare of the people might be made known unto them.
For so the Sutra teaches us in these words: “A heart that inclineth to the succour of others.
Upon the Sutra of Suraigama-Samadhi, I, Shinran Shōnin, have uttered these eight lauds praising the virtue of Seishi the Bodhisattva of Wisdom.
In a certain Sutra are we thus instructed, since the age that now is a part of the fifth in this closing age wherein men are fast bound in warfare, all righteous deeds have disappeared from the world.
Acharya Genshin, the Great Teacher, considering one of the Sutra with the commentary of Ekanzenji, hath made plain the attributes of the Land of Outermost Places.
His purpose was to unite the teachings of both the Greater and the Lesser Vehicle in a sutra whose burden should be one of ethics and not of dogma.
The Saddharma Pundarika Sutra teaches us how to obtain that desirable knowledge of the mind as it is in itself [universal wisdom] .
Henceforth, lecturing on this sutra became one of the yearly services of the Eastern Great Monastery.
This sutra exists in no fewer than six texts, around each of which has gathered some interesting mythology.
The Pure Land doctrine of H[=o]-nen was derived from the sutra preached by the great teacher Shaka.
Dhyana or contemplation is their principle; the Kégon or Avatamsaka sutra and the Hokké or Saddharma Pundarika sutra, etc.
It is upon the passage in the sutra where this vow is recorded, that the doctrine of the sect is based.
The Kégon-Shu or Avatamsaka-sutra sect, is founded on a certain teaching which Gautama is said to have promulgated in nine assemblies held at seven different places during the second week of his enlightenment.
The Ké-gon sutra is the original book of Buddha's teachings of his whole life.
For example, the author of Mahaparinirvana-sutra says: "Wicked Bhiksus would say all Vaipulya Mahayana sutras are not spoken by the Buddha, but by the Evil One.
It is clear that the name 'Hinayana' was coined by the Mahayanists, as there is no sutra which calls itself 'Hinayana.
Some may quote Bodhisattva-garbhastha-sutra in favour of the Mahayana; but it is of no avail, as the sutraitself is the work of a later date.
Mahaprajnya-paramita-sutra says The doctrine of unreality is the entrance-gate of Mahayana.
Dhyananisthitasamadhi-dharma-parygya-sutra by Kumarajiva in A.
Sandhinirmocana-sutra is supposed to be a work of Asanga not without reason, because Asanga's doctrine is identical with that of the sutra, and the sutra itself is contained in the latter part of Yogacaryabhumi-castra.
FN#243] See Yoga Sutra with the Commentary of Bhoja Raja (translated by Rajendralala Mitra), pp.
The book in which this incident is described is entitled 'Sutra on the Great Brahman King's Questioning Buddha to Dispel a Doubt,' but there exists no original text nor any Chinese translation in the Tripitaka.
To show that human nature transcends the duality of good and evil, the author of Avatamsaka-sutra declares that 'all beings are endowed with the wisdom and virtue of Tathagata.
Now I know that this sutrawas preached to show the so-called greatest object of Shakya Muni's appearing on earth.
The Sutra of the forty-two sections exists in Chinese, but neither in Sanskrit nor in Pâli, and many difficulties would be removed if we admitted, with M.
In the same way that the Kusha sect regards as its chief authority the Abhidharma Pitaca, there are two schools belonging to the Greater Vehicle, which base their teaching on the Sutra and Vinaya Pitacas respectively.
The Kagon make the parables and sayings of Buddha contained in the Sutra their especial study; while the Ritzu, as adhering to the more ascetic side of Buddhism, have for their favourite book the Vinaya, or “Discipline.
And in the same Sutra may be found this promise of the Teacher: 'While he is dwelling lonely in the wilderness, I will send thither goblins in great number to keep him company.
