Untying the Knots in Buddhism
author: Alex Wayman
edition: 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 631
ISBN-10: 8120813219
ISBN-13: 9788120813212
Topic: Buddhism
Sakyamuni founder of Buddhism
This chapter describes Sakyamuni founder of Buddhism located on page 3 in the book Untying the Knots in Buddhism. These essays deal with Buddhist Heroes such as Sakyamuni, Nagarjuna; Doctrine such as topics on suffering, karma, and voidness; Practice such as diet, purification and visualisations; and further theories of no-self, nescience and omniscience, etc. This chapter is part "Section I, Heroes of the System"
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The gods of northern Buddhism [by Alice Getty]
In the literature of Buddhism there is no complete biography of Sakya-muni, and one is obliged to reconstruct it from fragments contained in various documents, which have only a single common characteristic — the surrounding of the actual facts by a haze of legends....
Read full contents: Part I - Buddha
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms [by Fa-Hien]
M., pp. 23, 24. (* 20) The eldest son of Sakyamuni by Yasodhara. Converted to Buddhism, he followed his father as an attendant; and after Buddha’s death became the founder of a philosophical realistic school (vaibhashika). He is now revered as the patron saint of all novices, and is to be reborn as the eldest son of every future Buddha. Eitel, p. 101. His mother also is to be reborn as Buddha. (* 21) The eldest son of Sakyamuni by Yasodhara....
Read full contents: Chapter XVI - On To Mathura Or Muttra
The Lotus Sutra
” At that time the Buddha Shakyamuni said to the Buddha Pra bhut ar atna: “This Bodhisattva Gadgadasvara wants to see you.” Then, the Buddha Prabhutaratna addressed Gadgadasvara, saying: “Splendid! Splendid! You have paid homage to the Buddha Shakya muni and heard the Lotus Sutra, and have come here in order to see Manjushri and others.” Thereupon Bodhisattva Padmashri addressed the Buddha, saying: “O Bhagavat!...
Read full contents: Chapter XXIV - Bodhisattva Gadgadasvara
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[Untying the Knots in Buddhism: index]
[About the Author (Alex Wayman)]
[Foreword]
[Preface]
[Introduction]