This thoughtfully translated and organized volume is the cornerstone of any Buddhist library. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha is a companion to the equally essential The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, and the 2005 anthology of D…
This thoughtfully translated and organized volume is the cornerstone of any Buddhist library. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha is a companion to the equally essential The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, The Long Discourses of the Buddha, and the 2005 anthology of D…
Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all. The Lankavatara Sutra is the holy grail of Zen. Zen's First Patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of this text to …
The Lankavatara sutra: a Zen text
"Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all. The Lankavatara Sutra is the holy grail of Zen. Zen's First Patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of this text to…
Reading Bhatta Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism engages with an ancient Indian philosophical theory, called the ?exclusion theory? (apoha), which was developed by Indian Buddhists from the fifth century of the common era onward. This theory attempts to explain what universals real…
Reading Bhatta Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism engages with an ancient Indian philosophical theory, called the ?exclusion theory? (apoha), which was developed by Indian Buddhists from the fifth century of the common era onward. This theory attempts to explain what universals real…