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The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion

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Translations of Sutras (Fr-Eng)

• A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
• Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upāli's Questions: Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchā (Erdene-Ochir, B.)
• Bodhisatvapiṭaka (Bibliotheca Polyglotta)
• Creatures: Saṅgharakṣita and the Shape-Shifting Nāga
• Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One: Tathāgatapratibimbapratiṣṭhānuśaṃsasaṃvarṇana (Teleki, K.)
• Inspiring Determination: Adhyāśayasaṃcodana (Dorje, Lama Sherab)
• Marici-Dharani
• Teaching How All Phenomena Are without Origin: Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa (Hinkle, T.)
• The Absorption of the Miraculous Ascertainment of Peace: Praśāntaviniścayaprātihāryasamādhi (Hinkle, T.)
• The Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma: Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna (Doctor, T.)
• The Array of Virtues of Mañjuśrī's Buddha Realm: Mañjuśrībuddhakṣetraguṇavyūha (Hinkle, T.)
• The Avalokinī Sūtra: Avalokinīsūtra (Collet-Cassart, B.)
• The Bodhisattva Path: Based on the Ugraparipṛcchā, a Mahāyāna Sūtra
• The Detailed Account of the Previous Aspirations of the Blessed Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabha: Bhagavānbhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabhasya pūrvapraṇidhānaviśeṣavistāra (Krug, A.)
• The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch: Ratnolkādhāraṇī (Jackson, D.)
• The Diamond Sutra (Conze)
• The Exalted Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Wisdom Gone Beyond Called The Vajra Cutter
• The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened
• The Good Eon: Bhadrakalpika (Doctor, T.)
• The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti
• The Jewel Cloud: Ratnamegha (Doctor, T.)
• The King of Glorious Sutras called the Exalted Sublime Golden Light
• The King of Samādhis Sūtra: Samādhirājasūtra (Roberts, P.)
• The Legend of Saṃgharakṣita
• The Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
• The Miraculous Play of Mañjuśrī: Mañjuśrīvikrīḍita (Braarvig, J.)
• The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials
• The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (Doctor, A.)
• The Precious Discourse on the Blessed One’s Extensive Wisdom That Leads to Infinite Certainty: Niṣṭhāgatabhagavajjñānavaipulyasūtraratnānanta (Doctor, A.)
• The Question of Rāṣṭrapāla
• The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla (1): Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā (Brockhausen, K.)
• The Questions of Sāgaramati: Sāgaramatiparipṛcchā (Hinkle, T.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (1): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Hinkle, T.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (2): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Ewing, B.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (3): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Gyaltsen, Kalsang)
• The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra - Āryasatyakaparivarta
• The Rice Seedling Sutra
• The Rice Seedling: Śālistamba (Raktrul, 6th)
• The Seal of Engagement in Awakening the Power of Faith: Śraddhābalādhānāvatāramudrā (Beer, Z.)
• The Skill in Means (Upāyakauśalya) Sūtra
• The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1: Introduction
• The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2: Edition and Translation
• The Stem Array: Gaṇḍavyūha (Roberts, P.)
• The Strength of the Elephant: Hastikakṣya (Forgues, G.)
• The Sutra of the Householder Uncouth
• The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa) (Boin, S.)
• The Ten Bhūmis: Daśabhūmika (Roberts, P.)
• The Ugraparipṛcchā, the Mahāratnakūṭasūtra and Early Mahāyāna Buddhism
• The Vajradhvajapariṇāmanā: An Edition and Translation of the Tibetan Version
• The Voice of the Buddha
• The White Lotus of the Good Dharma: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Roberts, P.)
• The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra: Ākāśagarbhasūtra (Tenzin, Jampa, et al)
• The Śālistamba Sūtra
• The Śālistamba Sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries, Volume I
• Vagrakkhedikâ, The Diamond-Cutter
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śūraṃgamasamādhisūtra: The Concentration of Heroic Progress

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The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion (Lalitavistara Sutra) was translated from the French at Tarthang Tulku's request by Gwendolyn Bays, professor of French, and revised from the Tibetan by Deborah Black and Leslie Bradburn in consultation with Rinpoche. It was published to introduce to a Western audience the Buddha's own account of his life, enlightenment, and first teaching. Simultaneously instructive and inspiring in its imagery and beauty of expression, this two-volume work is embedded with numerous teachings related to the purpose of a Buddha that include 108 Doors of the Dharma, the major and auxiliary marks of a great being, and the qualities of the Buddha's voice that attune the mind to enlightenment. This book can be read and reflected upon chapter by chapter, knowing that each phrase can give access to deeper meanings. In this light, it becomes an ongoing meditation, supported and deepened by studying the thankas reproduced at the beginning of each chapter.

The first complete English translation of the most revered life story of the Buddha, the Lalitavistara Sutra expresses his life, enlightenment, and early teachings in exquisite poetic language. The Buddha bestowed this Sutra upon his disciples to demonstrate the inner nature and actions of the Enlightened One. Spoken in the Buddha's own voice, these teachings possess an inspiring beauty and power that no secondhand description can capture. An essential text for understanding the nature of the Buddha and the goal of Dharma practice.

Translated by Gwendolyn Bays from Edouard Foucaux's French, corrected with the Tibetan and the Sanskrit original. 29 full-color thankas, Sanskrit and Tibetan wordlists, glossary. (Source: Dharma Publishing)

Citation

Bays, Gwendolyn, trans. The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion. 2 vols. Tibetan Translation Series. Emeryville, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1983. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Gwendolyn%20Bays.

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Table of contents

• Publisher's Prefacexiii
• Introduction by Tarthang Tulkuxvii
• Chapter 1 The Setting4
• Chapter 2 The Great Inspiration16
• Chapter 3 The Complete Purity of Family28
• Chapter 4 The Luminous Doors of the Dharma52
• Chapter 5 Setting in Motion70
• Chapter 6 The Descent into the Womb94
• Chapter 7 The Birth122
• Chapter 8 The Visit to the Temple172
• Chapter 9 The Jewelry180
• Chapter 10 the Visit to the Schoolroom186
• Chapter 11 The Farming Village198
• Chapter 12 Skill in the Worldly Arts210
• Chapter 13 Exhortation240
• Chapter 14 Dreams282
• Chapter 15 The Departure from Home300

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1 Full translation of

Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&typ=1.འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

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The Play in Full tells the story of how the Buddha manifested in this world and attained awakening, as perceived from the perspective of the Great Vehicle. The sūtra, which is structured in twenty-seven chapters, first presents the events surrounding the Buddha’s birth, childhood, and adolescence in the royal palace of his father, king of the Śākya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sūtra reveals his complete victory over the demon Māra, his attainment of awakening under the Bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of Dharma, and the formation of the very early saṅgha. (Source: 84000)

Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt बोधि  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་  Ch 菩提;悟;覺  

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