The flower ornament scripture: a translation of the Avatamsaka sutraA Buddhist text discusses the ten stages of enlightenment, the universal good, the qualities of the Buddha, and detachment from the world |
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User Review - jvalamala - LibraryThingThis is a devotional text of the Mahayana tradition. It is enormous, repetitive and only really appropriate for recitation by monks and nuns or people with PLENTY of time on their hands. The most ... Read full review
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User Review - freezotic - LibraryThingThis Sutra is hugeness itself. As a mathematically inclined person I am interested in the incalculable numbers the Sutra describes. In chapter 30 a list of these numbers continues in a poem that results in numbers that can only be expressed by a power tower of unspeakable height. Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Wonderful Adornments of the Leaders of the Worlds | 55 |
Appearance of the Buddha | 150 |
Copyright | |
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The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary Limited preview - 1993 |
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abide able abode according action adornments afflictions Array attachment Banner billion body boundless Buddha is called Buddha teachings buddha-field buddha-lands buddha-nature buddhahood cause all sentient cause sentient celestial king compassion comprehend cosmos cultivate dedication of roots develop Diamond directions door of liberation enlightening beings give enter equal everywhere expound faculties flames Flower Ornament Scripture forever found the door fragrant water called fulfill heaven hundred trillion illumining immeasurable inconceivable inexhaustible infinite innumerable Jambudvipa kinds of clouds kinnara knowledge and wisdom lands living lotus manifest Manjushri mystic powers nirvana nondual numerous as atoms ocean of worlds omniscience palaces path practices of enlightening precious producing Pure Light purify realize sandalwood sea of fragrant sentient beings attain sounds spiritual powers sublime supreme things Topknot transcendent treasury true thusness Tushita ultimate understand unexcelled unhindered universal knowledge unobstructed unspeakably various vehicle virtues vows world called world system called worlds as atoms yaksha
Bibliographic information
| Title | The flower ornament scripture: a translation of the Avatamsaka sutra Volume 1 of The Flower Ornament Scripture The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Thomas F. Cleary |
| Author | Thomas F. Cleary |
| Editor | Thomas F. Cleary |
| Publisher | Shambhala Publications, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 29, 2009 |
| Length | 703 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Buddhism / General Religion / Hinduism / General |
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