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De grote weg naar het licht: Een keuze uit de literatuur van het Mahāyāna-Buddhisme
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Description
Anthology of representative sutra and philosophical texts from Mahayana Buddhism. The author was Professor of Sanskrit, Pali and Cultures of South Asia. Both traditional types of texts, those on monastic discipline and those containing the teachings of the Buddha, are discussed. In addition to 'words of the Buddha' and anonymous fragments from the best-known sutras, texts have been recorded by, among others, Ashvaghosha, Shantideva, Aryashura, Nagarjuna, Candrakirti, Vasubandhu and Matrcena.
Citation
Ensink, Jacob, trans. De grote weg naar het licht: Een keuze uit de literatuur van het Mahāyāna-Buddhisme (The Great Way to Light: A Selection from the Literature of Mahāyāna-Buddhism). 3rd ed. Edited by Erik Hoogcarspel. Asoka Classical Text Library 12. Rotterdam: Asoka, 2005.
Interconnections
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An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
