↠ The Vimalakirti Sutra ☆ Burton Watson - The Vimalakirti Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness its vivid and humorous episodes
- Title: The Vimalakirti Sutra
- Author: Burton Watson
- ISBN: 9780231106573
- Page: 492
- Format: Paperback
↠ The Vimalakirti Sutra ☆ Burton Watson, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Burton Watson, The Vimalakirti Sutra One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness its vivid and humorous episodes its dramatic narratives and its eloquent exposition of the key doctrine of emptiness or nondualism Unlike most sutras its central figure is not a Buddha but a wealthy towOne ↠ The Vimalakirti Sutra ☆ Burton Watson - The Vimalakirti Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness its vivid and humorous episodes
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↠ The Vimalakirti Sutra ☆ Burton Watson
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Burton Watson
You, lay person, can know the enlightenment of the Buddhas The main attraction of this influential Mahayana text is that the most profound realizations of Mahayana Buddhist thought emptiness, nonduality, the Bodhisattva ideal, the One Vehicle, altruistic compassion, and upaya skillful means are shown, by Vimalakirti s example, to be available to lay people You don t have to be a monk or nun to know the perfect freedom of awakened mind, to realize your own Buddha nature This entertaining text has [...]
summarize in a quote modified to my understanding of the Chinese version rely on meaning, not on words rely on sutras that are understood, not those that are not.
An astonishing teaching It is a blessing that, altough we do not really comprehend this view as Bodisattva Vimalakirti shows us, we could encounter this book in this lifetime The variety of characters that present during the whole sutta, how do they do their practice, as well they contact with the vision of Vimalakirti and his savvy remarks are mindboogling May we all comprehend this teaching in its entirety someday
There is a lot here, and it s very dense But the Sutra itself is quite good, and there is a lot to be learned There definitely is a lot of filler material, however, with back and forth between characters repeated often However, it s what s in between these exchanges that contains the good stuff I would recommend using this as a guide, while studying it with other people or online as you read.
As a Buddhist woman, this was still a very complicated text It presents Dharma in a unique way, and I was happy to read and learn from this text When reading works like this, it truly makes one feel connected to previous generations of people who have encountered the Holy Teachings Although various translations have existed throughout time, there is a common message that cannot disappear no matter the bias or efforts of the translator Admittedly, this book can be confusing at times There are so [...]
Nghe n i nay ng y p n n khai b t tr n Cu n n y l Kinh Duy Ma C t, b n ti ng Vi t r t d ki m tr n m ng M nh bi t v c kinh n y l do h m m ng 4 i ch c t t s ng S n c s ng ch cho May qu c th d t m nh ra kh i chu i ng y t k v i An Ni B o B i, ti n th khai s ch u n m lu n Cu n n y ng c, b t k b n c ph i m t Ph t t hay kh ng Theo m nh kinh Duy Ma C t l m t b n kinh ph n nh ng tinh th n Ph t gi o, tr tu v an nhi n D ng t m v i t m t th i ch kinh Ph t hay ho h n nhi u, m i t i kh t T_T, nh kinh n i l kh [...]
Am enjoying reading this for the third time.My favorite version however is the The Teaching of Vimalak rti Vimalak rtinirde a , Sacred Books of the Buddhists 32 London Pali Text Society, 1976 1994 Translated under the name Sara Boin Translation from tienne Lamotte, L Enseignement de Vimalak rti, Biblioth que du Mus on 51 Louvain Institut Orientaliste, 1962.Which I was, along with the other members of a Buddhist Study group in London, to get as a photocopy courtesy of the late Sara Bion webb in a [...]
This is a strange book which was on a college course reading list It is a classic of Mahayana ancient Buddhism and written about about a knowledgeable yet slightly annoying householder The book starts off with the householder, Vimalakirti being obnoxious and injecting his unsolicited thoughts into others experiences It is not a modern dharma book and as such has mythological literary devices I will not spoil the book for those who wish to read it, but I will say there are few dharma gems in it I [...]
A deceivingly dense Mahayana scripture, it ll likely blow over the heads of most people who fixate on the preposterous tales of supernatural powers which make up half the book and the incredibly dense and lengthy doctrines which predate modern paraconsistent logic, while echoing it s principles into a remarkable moral philosophy.Paraconsistent arguments typically work backwards of modern logic Rather than provide complimentarly suppositions which lead to a definitive conclusion, paraconsistency [...]
Thurman s is the standard translation, but it s good to get as many translations as possible, and while I m not a close enough reader to comment on this translation, I m glad it exists I don t think, as someone commented, that it s really about lay Buddhists, though if you draw inspiration from that, that s not horrible I think the dualism of lay versus monastic is something Vimalakirti would perhaps laugh at, and Mahayana is a reaction to rigid monasticism, so as I say, get that message if you [...]
An excellent new translation of the Laughing Buddha sutra by the living master of such translations An Indian counterpart to R.D Liang s Knots, both explore and expose dualistic thinking and how embracing paradox creates a better mind consciousness Not as humorous as its common title, it is funny that when the local master of the art of living takes ill, a zillion of his emulators say why they are not the one to visit him and wish him good health inevitably he has taught them something so profou [...]
The teachings here are puzzling in what seems to be a very deliberate manner The holy sage Vimalakirti enjoys his mystical mischief at one moment playing with gloriously absurd allegories of space travel, at others engaging in almost Nagarjunian analyses that lead, ultimately, to the absence of condition and voidness He moves from inconceivable vastnesses to inconceivable voidness, and it all winds up being a little disturbing Where Nagarjuna is comfortingly logical, Vimalakirti s reductionism i [...]
Another book that I read in college This one I really enjoyed I remember there were debates as to whether this scripture unfairly represented women, but I fell on the side of the argument that viewed the descriptions of women as purely a form of expedient means in addressing lust to male monks In other words, the descriptions of the female form as disgusting and fowl should be understood within a very specific context.Apparently, since it s been a few years since I ve read this, the stuff about [...]
So packed full of references, many of which went right over my head I feel I ll need to return to this text after learning of the topic This is definitely a text that will need multiple read throughs, separated by much other reading on the topic.
A very profound Mahayana sutra Robert Thurman has 3 glosseries of sanskrit terms, technical terms, and numerical categories WARNING Not an easy read but very profound if you can get through it A must for EVERY buddhist scholar or practicing buddhist.
Complex text I would not have been able to fully appreciate it s depth without Robert Thurman s guidance.
Beautiful book Inspired this sort of lengthy blog post mythgirlnf.wordpress 2012
The text itself is seminal, although I think that I prefer the Robert Thurman translation both in terms of general readability and authenticity of the translation to the original.
Got this as a text file from RAF Thurman himself upon request when it was still a manuscript A rich, vivid read Fairly long for a sutra.
encouraging to read about a married Buddhist saint
Don t just read this translation read the others too.
Reading slowly with my little zen group, and it is unfolding itself in many appreciative ways.