Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Revised)

Title: Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Revised)
Author: E B Cowell
ISBN: 9780486255521
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Number of Pages: 464
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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Originally published in the Sacred Books of the East Series, under the general editorship of F. Max Muller, this volume contains translations of basic works in later Buddhism. These documents are extremely important in contemporary Japanese Buddhism, particularly the older sects, such as the Pure Land and Shin Shu, and have also been significant in the development of Chinese Buddhism, and the Buddhism of Tibet and Nepal. All have been translated from Sanskrit texts that preserve the originals as well as can be determined.
The first component, the Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, has been translated by E. B. Cowell from Nepalese texts. Of Indian origin, around the beginning of the Christian era, it is concerned with the life and teachings of the Buddha now quite far removed from the Pali documents of the Hinayana. The original text, which was fragmentary, has been completed by the addition of four books by a nineteenth-century Nepalese scholar, Amritananda.
Max Muller has translated the Larger and Smaller Sukhavati-vyuha, in which the Buddha describes the Land of Bliss to an assembly of the sangha, gods, spirits, and others. This is followed by Dr. Muller's translation of the Vagrakkhedika (The Diamond Cutter), a metaphysical treatise, and the Larger and Smaller Pragna paramitahridaya-sutras, two brief kernel statements of the Mahayana. The final document for Japanese Buddhism, the highly important Amitayur-dhyana-sutra, has been translated by Dr. J. Takakusu. Called the Meditation Sutra, it describes meditation and concentration techniques in terms of Amida Buddhism. It is of particular interest today as an experimental document.

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