The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra / The Surangama Samadhi Sutra (Bdk English Tripitaka Translation Series)
By Unknown Author.
Description
There are two titles in this volume.The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras and influenced the development of Prajnaparamita, Pure Land, and Yogacara philosophies. It propounds a particular samadhi, or meditation, called the "meditation in which one is brought face to face with the Buddhas of the present" or "the meditation of direct encounter with the Buddhas of the present." This meditation is a developed form of the earlier practice of buddhanusmrti or "calling the Buddha to mind." It also attempts to reconcile the vision of the...
ISBN(s)
1886439060, 9781886439061
