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What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 7:19 pm
by User 3495
What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
1. Lotus Sutra
2. Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
3. Three Pureland Sutras
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 8:39 am
by Astus
At the moment:
- Vimalakirti Sutra
- Perfect Enlightenment Sutra (圓覺經)
- Avatamsaka Sutra
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 3:27 pm
by Nicholas Weeks
Avatamsaka, Surangama & Lalitavistara
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 1:04 pm
by teatimes.me
Earth Store Sutra. This sutra is known for effectively removing Karma through reciting, a foundation for further practice.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:09 pm
by Grigoris
Lankavatara Sutra!!!
And let's not forget the Heart Sutra.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:25 am
by jikai
1) The Lotus Sutra
2) Mahaparinirvana Sutra
3)Original Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva Sutra
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:37 am
by A Ah Sha Sa Ma Ha
The Diamond Sutra & The Heart Sutra
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:43 am
by gyougan
仏説無量寿経
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:13 pm
by Leo Rivers
Heart Sutra for Reality Check. Samndhinirmocana for Psychology. Lotus Sutra for True Mythology.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:45 pm
by plwk
tat sutra where it tells ya to buck up or ship out... 
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:46 pm
by deepbluehum
Kunga Lhadzom wrote:The Diamond Sutra & The Heart Sutra
I second this.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:18 am
by A Ah Sha Sa Ma Ha
Metta Sutra
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Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:33 am
by safron
The Lotus Sutra
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:54 am
by Grigoris
That's actually a Theravadra Sutta, but hey, it's a great one! I finished translating it and other related Sutta into Greek just last night!
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:36 pm
by Rakz
All of them
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:00 pm
by DGA
Surangama Sutra hasn't been mentioned yet; it's on my top shelf. Also, Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, as Astus mentioned, and the Lotus Sutra as so many have also brought up. The Vajrasamadhi Sutra is one I keep coming back to since Buswell's translation was published, although I can't claim to have much of a grasp on it. The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala is a gem.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:52 pm
by Thomas Amundsen
gregkavarnos wrote:
And let's not forget the Heart Sutra.
It is tantra.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:01 pm
by practitioner
tomamundsen wrote:gregkavarnos wrote:
And let's not forget the Heart Sutra.
It is tantra.
It is the essence of the Prajnaparamita Sutra, definitely Mahayana.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:30 pm
by DGA
Depending on the tradition, the line between sutra and tantra is difficult. The Mahavairocana Sutra is one example.
Re: What are your favourite Mahayana Sutras?
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 6:37 pm
by kirtu
tomamundsen wrote:gregkavarnos wrote:
And let's not forget the Heart Sutra.
It is tantra.
Is it or isn't it? Only a high Bodhisattva can tell for sure (riffing off an old Clarol commercial).
Lopez essentially wrote a book discussing this, his excellent Heart Sutra book. From the perspective of literary criticism the Heart Sutra can be viewed as an intermediate text between sutras and tantras.
But then how should we classify the numerous dharani texts? Probably as texts developed there is not that great a leap from dharani texts to tantra in terms of outward form.
However many tantras look outwardly like books of magic and the Heart Sutra, while being really magical, doesn't have this characteristic.
Kirt