Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words

Buddhism Mahayana

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This is the English translation of the Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (“the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) by Nagarjuna (c. 2nd century A.D.). The book, in the form of an encyclopedia on Buddhism, is a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita (“the perfection of wisdom in five thousand lines”). Volume I describes the conditions...

Chapter XIV - Emission of rays

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Act 1.1: The Buddha enters into the Samādhirājasamādhi

Act 1.2: The Buddha smiles a first time with his whole body

Act 1.3: The Buddha emits light rays from the soles of his feet

Act 1.4: The Buddha emits light rays from various body parts

Act 1.5: The Buddha lights up the trichiliocosm

Act 1.6: Definition of trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu

Act 1.7: Explanation of the parable ‘as numerous as the sands of the Ganges’

Act 2: The Buddha smiles a second time with all the pores of his skin

Act 3: The Buddha illuminates by means of his usual light

Act 4: The Buddha stretches out his tongue and smiles a third time

Act 5.1: The Buddha shakes the trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu in six ways

Act 5.3: Description of the six tremblings of the earth (bhūmicala)

Act 5.4: The softening of the earth makes beings joyful

Act 5.5: Beings that were reborn among humans or the gods of kāmadhātu

Act 5.6: Those reborn turn to the Buddha to pay homage to him

Act 5.7: The shaking of the earth in the universes of the ten directions

Act 5.8: The weak, the sick and the crippled are healed

Act 5.9: All beings obtained the mind of equanimity

Act 6: The Buddha manifests his supernatural qualities in the trichiliocosm

Act 7.1: The Buddha shows his ordinary body (prakṛtyātmabhāva)

Act 7.2: Description of the Śuddhavāsika and Brahmaloka gods

Act 7.3: Description of Paranirmitavaśavartin

Act 7.4: Description of celestial flowers (divypuṣpa)

Act 7.5: Scattering of flowers over the Buddha

Act 7.7: The trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu takes on a golden color

Act 7.8: The Buddha appeared simultaneously in the same form to all the beings

Act 8: The Buddha smiles a fourth time: beings become aware of one another

Appendix 1 - Notes on the five cakṣus or visual powers of the Buddha

Appendix 2 - The ten directions (diś)

Appendix 3 - The usual light (prakṛtiprabhā) of the Buddha

Appendix 4 - The legend of Māra and the Buddha at the brahmin village Śālā

Appendix 5 - Definition of Brahmacarya and Brahmacakra

Appendix 6 - The theory of nirmita

Appendix 7 - Eight causes for the trembling of the earth

Appendix 8 - The four gardens of the Trāyastriṃśa gods

Appendix 9 - Identification of the Dharma teacher ‘Kao Tso’

Appendix 10 - Sources for the story of the sick and abandoned monk

Appendix 11 - Origin of the story of Gaṇḍaka

Appendix 12 - The nine torments or sufferings of the Buddha

Appendix 13 - The story of Sunetra

Last Updated: 30 July, 2018

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