Lankavatara Sutra

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Does anyone have the inside track on when Red Pine's translation will actually be coming out? Have been looking forward to this for a very long time.
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Manuscript was submitted to Counterpoint in April. Due out in hardback next January.
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Wonderful to know, thank you!!
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Will it just be the root text or have some commentary?
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Will,
just a guess but all of his other books have very nice commentary I am hoping this one does too. I have been waiting for this for a very long time. I am a big fan of his translations/commentaries
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chihsung wrote:Manuscript was submitted to Counterpoint in April. Due out in hardback next January.
Hi Red Pine, thanks for registering on the forum. It would be a pleasure to have you participate and offer your insights wherever possible.
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Huseng wrote:
chihsung wrote:Manuscript was submitted to Counterpoint in April. Due out in hardback next January.
Hi Red Pine, thanks for registering on the forum. It would be a pleasure to have you participate and offer your insights wherever possible.
Good spot on the username. Thrown a bit there by the Wade-Giles.

At any rate, allow me to echo Huseng's sentiment. And thanks for working on this translation. It's been long awaited. :smile:
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Chihsung IS Red Pine? Wade-giles threw me off too. well, dont I feel silly now. Seriously though...love your work. Hope you enjoy the site. Welcome
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The translation is based on the Chinese of Gunabhadra (with references to variant readings by Bodhiruchi, Shikshananda, and the Sanskrit) and does not include the "Sagathakam". It should run about 400 pages, sixty percent text, forty percent notes and commentary. It is currently being checked for the more obvious gaffs by Paul Harrison at Stanford and Dan Lusthaus at Harvard. Just happened to be cruising the web and found your site. Look like a good one. Keep up the good work.
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Excellent that you decided to go with the Gunabhadra/Song. Did you also not include the first Ravana chapter as well?
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Hello Mr. Pine,

I just wanted to say that I really loved reading your translation of the Tao Te Ching when I was a teenager. It inspired me a great deal. I should read some of your other books--perhaps I'll buy this new book you're working on when it comes out. You rock!
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Thanks for the encouragement Luke. You're really going to want to buy this book. It will surprise you. As for Fa Dao's question, Yes, I include the first chapter, which I have rendered based mostly on Bodhiruchi and Shikshananda but also on the Sanskrit. Its a composite and begins the book, which then segues into the Gunabhadra text with chapter two.
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Sounds great!! I truly have been looking forward to this for years when you had mentioned in an interview that you would be doing it. I have used many of your translations for the Dharma classes I teach...specifically the Heart, Diamond, and Platform Sutras. In fact, if I am able I have been seriously thinking of trying to memorize the Lankavatara over a period of a few years as part of my practice. Just been waiting for your translation.
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chihsung wrote:The translation is based on the Chinese of Gunabhadra (with references to variant readings by Bodhiruchi, Shikshananda, and the Sanskrit) and does not include the "Sagathakam"...

What is this Sagathakam that is not included?
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Will wrote:What is this Sagathakam that is not included?
This: Sagathakam
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Astus wrote:
Will wrote:What is this Sagathakam that is not included?
This: Sagathakam
Many thanks Astus :bow:
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I too look forward to this book (just happen to have The Zen Teaching Of Bodhidharma Trans. by Red Pine in front of me. One of the best books ever!) and am glad to see this topic here.
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