Flower Adornment Sutra Preface

With Commentary By The Venerable Master Hua

A.D. 700 | 42,486 words

Summary: The Flower Adornment Sutra (Avataṃsaka Sūtra) is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras of East Asian Buddhism. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra describes a cosmos of infinite realms upon realms, mutually containing one another.

The Avataṃsaka Sūtra was written in stages, beginning from at least 500 years after the death of the Buddha.

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Text of Preface to The Flower Adornment Sutra

a. National Master Ching Liang

b. National Master Ching Liang

I. Presentation of the Substance of the Doctrine

II. Specific Praise of that which Illustrates

III. The Teaching Host’s Inconceivability

IV. The Spoken Meanings’ Universal Pervasion

V. The Expression’s Inclusion of the Roots and the Branch-tips

VI. The Profound Subtlety of the Doctrine’s Intent

VII. The Accomplishment of Benefit of Sudden Transcendence

VIII. Concluding Praise of Its Vast Scope

IX. Grateful Rejoicing at the Encounter