1: . It is difficult to tell how this dharani came to be inserted here. As most dharanis are, it is de[...] 2: . "Jewel-excelled" (ratnaketu). 3: . "Abundant-in-jewel" (prabhutaratna). 4: . "Fine-form-body" (surupakaya). 5: . "Broad-wide-body" (vipulakaya). 6: . "Freed-from-fear" (abhayankara). 7: . "Nectar-king" (amritaraja). 8: . "Amida" (amitabha). 1: . Namo 'mitabhaya tathagataya! Tadyatha, amritodbhave, amritasiddhe, (?)-bhave, amritavikrante, am[...]
1: There are two texts with the title of The Hridaya: the one is known as the Shorter and the other t[...] *: Nabhisamayah is missing in the Chinese translations as well as in the Horyuji MS. **: For varana all the Chinese have "obstacle", and this is in full accord with the teaching of the P[...] 2: . From the modern scientific point of view, the conception of Skandha seems to be too vague and ind[...] 3: . Hsuan-chuang's translation has this added: "He was delivered from all suffering and misery." 4: . "Empty" (sunya) or "emptiness" (sunyata) is one of the most important notions in Mahayana philoso[...] 5: . No eye, no ear, etc., refer to the six senses. In Buddhist philosophy, mind (manovijnana) is the [...] 6: . No form, no sound, etc., are the six qualities of the external world, which become objects of the[...] 7: . "Dhatu of vision etc." refer to the eighteen Dhatus or elements of existence, which include the s[...] 8: . "Till we come to" (yavat in Sanskrit, and nai chih in Chinese) is quite frequently met with in Bu[...] 10: . The allusion is of course to the Fourfold Noble Truth (satya): 1. Life is suffering (duhkha); 2. [...]
1: . Generally known as Kwannon-gyo in Japanese and Kuan-yin Ching in Chinese. It forms the Twenty-fif[...] 2: . Bodhisattva Akshayamati in Sanskrit, that is, Bodhisattva of Inexhaustible Intelligence. 1: . That is, sahaloka, world of patience. 1: . "Safety", or better "faith". 1: . Dharanindhara in Sanskrit, "the supporter of the earth".
2: Kongokyo in Japanese. The full title in Sanskrit is Vajracchedika-prajna-paramita-sutra. It belong[...] 1: . Dharma, that is, the object of manovijnana, thought, as form (rupa) is the object of the visual s[...] 1: . That is, Samadhi of non-resistance. Arana also means a forest where the Yogin retires to practis[...] 1: . This finishes the first part of the Diamond Sutra as it is usually divided here and passes on to [...] 1: . Citta stands for both mind and thought. The idea expressed here is that there is no particularly [...]
1: . From The Transmission of the Lamp, XXX. 2: . "Entrance by Reason" may also be rendered "Entrance by Higher Intuition", and "Entrance by Condu[...] 1: . "Wall-gazing". 1: . Since this translation from the Transmission of the Lamp, two Tun-huang MSS. containing the text [...]
2: By Seng-t'san (Sosan in Japanese). Died 606 C.E. Mind = hsin. Hsin is one of those Chinese words [...] 1: . The Mind = the Way = the One = Emptiness. 1: . The Masters and Disciples of the Lanka also quotes a poetical composition of So-san on "The Myst[...] 1: . I.e. Tat tvam asi.
1: . The Tun-huang copy, edited by D. T. Suzuki, 1934. Hui-neng = Yeno, 637-712. 1: . The text has "the Prajnaparamita Sutra" here. But I take it to mean Prajna itself instead of the[...] 1: . The text has the "body", while the Koshoji edition and the current one have "mind". 2: . The title literally reads: "the true-false moving-quiet". "True" stands against "false" and "mov[...] 3: . That is, the Absolute refuses to divide itself into two: that which sees and that which is seen. [...] 1: . "Moving" means "dividing" or "limiting". When the absolute moves, a dualistic interpretation of [...] 2: . Chih, jnana in Sanskrit, is used in contradistinction to Prajna which is the highest form of kno[...]
1: . Yoka Daishi (died 713, Yung-chia Ta-shih, in Chinese), otherwise known as Gengaku (Hsuan-chiao), [...] 1: . The fivefold eye-sight (cakshus) : (1) Physical, (2) Heavenly, (3) Prajna-, (4) Dharma-, and (5) [...] 2: The fivefold power (bala): (1) Faith, (2) Energy, (3) Memory, (4) Meditation, and (5) Prajna. 1: . (1) The Dharma-body, (2) the Body of Enjoyment, and (3) the Body of Transformation. 2: . (1) Mirror-intuition, (2) intuition of identity, (3) knowledge of doing Works, and (4) clear perc[...] 3: . The Abhidharmakosa, VIII, gives an explanation of the eight Vimoksha. See La Vallee Poussin's Fre[...] 4: . For the six Riddhi, which are the supernatural products of the meditations, see op. cit., VII, 12[...] 1: . T'sao-ch'i is the name of the locality where Hui-neng had his monastery, means the master himself[...] 1: . According to Buddhist philosophy, existence is divided into two groups, samskrita and asamskrita.[...] 1: . Shang-hsing, lit. "good star", was a great scholar of his age. 1: . The story of this Bhikshu is told in the Sutra on Cleansing the Karma-hindrances (Ching Yeh-chang[...]
1: . Wobaku Ki-un in Japanese, died 850 2: One of the first lessons in the understanding of Buddhism is to know what is meant by the Buddha a[...] 1: . The five eyes are: (1) the physical eye, (2) the heavenly eye, (3) the eye of wisdom, (4) the eye[...] 2: . In the Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedika), the Buddha makes five statements as regards the truth of hi[...]
1: . Hsuan-sha, 835-908. The following is a literal translation of Case LXXXVIII of the Pi-yen Chi, w[...] 2: . The Remark purposes to make the reader abandon his usual relative point of view so that he can re[...]
1: . It will be interesting to note what a mystic philosopher has to say about this: "A man shall beco[...] 1: . Symbol of emptiness (sunyata). 2: . No extra property he has, for he knows that the desire to possess is the curse of human life.
1: . Left to his disciples as his last words when he was about to pass away. 1: . This is Dai-o Kokushi's own name, Dai-o being his posthumous honorary title.
1: . Fas. XXVII. 2: . Introduction to Zen Buddhism, p. 58. 3: . Zen Essays, III, Plates XIV and XV, with their accompanying explanations. 1: . Ibid. Plates X and XVI, and also Second Series.
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