the 84000 app is out on Google Play & Mac App Store!

Discuss and learn about the traditional Mahayana scriptures, without assuming that any one school ‘owns’ the only correct interpretation.
Post Reply
User avatar
Leo Rivers
Posts: 498
Joined: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:52 am
Contact:

the 84000 app is out on Google Play & Mac App Store!

Post by Leo Rivers »

the 84000 app is out on Google Play & Mac App Store!

Now I can read
the stem array
:coffee:

Image
New Publication
The Stem Array
Toh 44-45
Gaṇḍa­vyūha
སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པ།
In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or “good friend,” who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samanta­bhadra. Samanta­bhadra’s recitation of the Samanta­bhadra­caryā­praṇidhāna (“The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct”) concludes the sūtra.

For the rest of this week, this sūtra will be available only on 84000's new mobile app, for iOS and Android
Post Reply

Return to “Sūtra Studies”