Entering the Dharmadhātu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entering the Dharmadhātu write by Jan Fontein. This book was released on 2012-03-20. Entering the Dharmadhātu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gandavyūha, a sacred text of Mahāyāna Buddhism, is an allegorical tale of the pilgrimage of a youth named Sudhana, who visits fifty-three spiritual mentors to receive their instruction in the Conduct of the Bodhisattva. His miraculous journey on the path towards Enlightenment inspired the sculptors of Borobudur (9th century C.E.) to illustrate the tale in 460 bas-reliefs on the higher galleries of this great Javanese monument. During the 1920s N.J. Krom and F.D.K. Bosch identified many of the panels, but most of their findings, written in Dutch, remained unnoticed. Entering the Dharmadhātu compares the complete set of panels with three early Chinese translations of Central Asian and Indian Sanskrit manuscripts of the Gandavyūha. This first identification of the entire series in English concludes with a discussion of the new perspectives on the meaning, symbolism, and architecture of Borobudur that a reading of the Gandavyūha suggests.
Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism
Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism write by Peter N. Gregory. This book was released on 2002-04-30. Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.
In Praise of Dharmadhatu
In Praise of Dharmadhatu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Dharmadhatu write by Nagarjuna. This book was released on 2021-06-01. In Praise of Dharmadhatu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nagarjuna is famous in the West for his works not only on Madhyamaka but his poetic collection of praises, headed by In Praise of Dharmadhatu. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, focusing primarily on the title work. The translation of Nagarjuna's hymn to Buddha nature—here called dharmadhatu—shows how buddha nature is temporarily obscured by adventitious stains in ordinary sentient beings gradually uncovered through the path of bodhisattvas and finally revealed in full bloom as buddhahood. These themes are explored at a deeper level through a Buddhist history of mind's luminous nature and a translation of the text's earliest and most extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje (1284–1339), supplemented by relevant excerpts from all other available commentaries. The book also provides an overview of the Third Karmapa's basic outlook, based on seven of his major texts. He is widely renowned as one of the major proponents of the shentong (other-empty) view. However, as this book demonstrates, this often problematic and misunderstood label needs to be replaced by a more nuanced approach which acknowledges the Karmapa's very finely tuned synthesis of the two great traditions of Indian mahayana Buddhism, Madhyamaka and Yogacara. These two, his distinct positions on Buddha nature, and the transformation of consciousness into enlightened wisdom also serve as the fundamental view for the entire vajrayana as it is understood and practiced in the Kagyu tradition to the present day.
The Dharmadhatu
The Dharmadhatu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dharmadhatu write by Dharma Kaya. This book was released on 2018-10-02. The Dharmadhatu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dharmadhatu
The Mirror of Dharma with Additions
The Mirror of Dharma with Additions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mirror of Dharma with Additions write by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. This book was released on 2019-05-24. The Mirror of Dharma with Additions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, The Mirror of Dharma With Additions — Dharma means the teachings of enlightened beings — gives practical advice on how we can solve our daily problems of uncontrolled desire, anger and ignorance, and how to make our human life meaningful. The author, Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche, is an internationally renowned meditation master and scholar. In this book, he explains as practical instructions the complete path to enlightenment, based on his deep experience gained from a lifetime spent in meditation. With this new edition, the author has added inspiring heartfelt advice on how to engage successfully in daily meditation, as well as instructions that clarify important aspects of spiritual practice. "We can see and find the sun of the supreme happiness of enlightenment from The Mirror of Dharma. How fortunate we are." Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche This practical guide includes: • Essential insights on the advice from Je Tsongkhapa's heart called The Three Principal Aspects of the Path to Enlightenment • How we can use the Request to the Lord of All Lineages prayer to contemplate and meditate on all the stages of the path of both Sutra and Tantra • How to train in the meditation practice of Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion • A special presentation of the practice of the stages of the path to enlightenment, known as Lamrim
