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Title: The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture by Vimalakirtinirdesa. English, Robert A. F. Thurman ISBN: 0-271-00601-3 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant sutra....
Comment: This is the Vimilikirtisastra, a Mahayana treatise that deals with nonduality. What this means is that the construct of the Therevada (or Hinayana-- meaning devotional Buddhism) is replaced by something other-- larger-- (from Sanskrit little vehicle to larger vehicle).
What does this mean to you? You have a book here in which all of the paired items (good/bad, monk/layperson, holy/inholy) start to be broken down. Buddhism becomes 'purer' through being less pure, more people are offered the ability to have salvation...
More than that, this is a fun read that can be gone through multiple times-- which will be necessary if you want to fully grasp all that this book says. It will alter your conception of what the Dharma is, or introduce you to one if you're just beginning to learn about it.
I would suggest, though, that you have some background in the Therevada stuff before you start-- otherwise this book would kind of be pointless: excepting that parts of it are amusing. Prof. Thurman has a knack for translation...
Rating: 5
Summary: The jem of sutras
Comment: This Sutra is noted as the "jewel of the Mahayana sutras". Vimalakirti, a man of the world (lay practitioner) is said to be the highest of all of Buddhas disciples. Vimalakirti in this sutra clears up the confusions surrounding the central Buddhist concepts of emptiness, or voidness. This is a must have book for the serious Buddhist student.
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Title: The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield ISBN: 0195093364 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East) by et al., E. B. Cowell ISBN: 0486255522 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Threefold Lotus Sutra by Bunno Kato, Kato Bunno, Tamora Yashiro ISBN: 4333002087 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Central Philosophy of Tibet by Robert A.F. Thurman ISBN: 0691020671 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: The Vimalakirti Sutra by Burton Watson ISBN: 0231106572 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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