Two Groupings of Sutras worth thinking about

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Two Groupings of Sutras worth thinking about

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THE TRIPLE MAITREYA SUTRAS


1. The Noble Sūtra “The Bodhisattva Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy (Skt. Tuṣita)”
(Fo shuo guan mile pusa shang sheng doushuaitian jing 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上⽣兜率天經, Taishō 452).
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh19 ... 61-019-243


2. THESE THREE COUNT AS ONE

a. Taishō 453

b. Taishō 454 Iida, Shotaro, and Jane Goldstone, trans. The Sutra That Expounds the Descent of Maitreya Buddha and His Enlightenment. Moraga, California: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 2016

c. Taishō 455


3. Taishō 456 Buddha Pronounces the Sūtra of Maitreya Bodhisattva’s Attainment of Buddhahood
Translated from the digital Chinese Canon
https://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra11.html






THE THREE ESSENTIALS OF THE MAITREYA SCHOOL AS DETERMINED BY TAIXU

(FOR BODHISATTVAS THAT WISH TO ESTABLISH A PURELAND ON EARTH)


GROUND
Asanga. On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga’s Bodhisattvabhumi · Author: Asanga Janice Dean Willis · ISBN: 9788120811065. Translated by Janice Dean WILLIS. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

PATH
Either the Conduct section of the Bodhisattvabhūmi section of the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra
see ASAṄGA, Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi. Translated by Artemus B. ENGLE. Boulder, Colorado: Snow Lion Publications, 2016.

or as often seen as an equivalent substitute

the second fascicle of KUMARAJIVA, and A. Charles MULLER, trans. THE BRAHMĀ’S NET SUTRA Aka Fanwang Jing. Taishō Volume 24, Number 1484. Moraga, California: Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 2017.

FRUIT
Quoted at length in: Jones, Charles B., trans. “The Sutra on the Contemplation of the Bodhisattva Maitreya’s Ascent to Rebirth in Tusita Heaven.” In Taixu’s “On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm,” Vol. 0452. Taisho 14. LONDON: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

and in full at

https://read.84000.co/translation/toh19 ... 61-019-243
The Noble Sūtra “The Bodhisattva Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy (Skt. Tuṣita)”
(Fo shuo guan mile pusa shang sheng doushuaitian jing 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上⽣兜率天經, Taishō 452).




NOTE:

It seems possible that the 5 Maitreya Sutras translated into Chinese in the mid 5th Century on the Silk Route...
For example:
The Noble Sūtra “The Bodhisattva Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy (Skt. Tuṣita)”
(Fo shuo guan mile pusa shang sheng doushuaitian jing 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上⽣兜率天經, Taishō 452).

...were the flowering of meditations based on the Buddhist Meditation Manuels compiled in the first half of the 5th Century.
For example:
The Zouchan sanmei jing the Sutra on the Concentration of Sitting Meditation compiled by Kumarajiva (360-409 CE), Translated by Nobuyoshi YAMABE and Fumihiko SUEKI. Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2009, which was the first sutra Kumarajiva translated on the request of Sengrui just days after his arrival in China

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