The Three Essentials Of The Maitreya School As Determined By Taixu

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The Three Essentials Of The Maitreya School As Determined By Taixu

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THE THREE ESSENTIALS OF THE MAITREYA SCHOOL AS DETERMINED BY TAIXU

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

topic: Pureland in a Human Realm, Socialism, Humanistic Buddhism, the Yogacara revival in the Republic of China (1912–1949)


GROUND
Old Translation - 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.

NEW, UPDATED, COMMENTED AND CORRECTED !
Fok Tan Mei Ling. “The Tattvārtha Chapter of the Yogācāra-Bhūmi – English Translation and Critical Study.” The University of Hong Kong, August 2014.


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

the Dharmachakra Translation Committee. “The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy.”
(Fo shuo guan mile pusa shang sheng doushuaitian jing 佛說觀彌勒菩薩上⽣兜率天經, Taishō 452).
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2021. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh19 ... 61-019-243

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