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Hardback. New. This is a translation of the first of four volumes of the Mah?y?na version of the <em>Mah?parinirv??a-s?tra</em>, one of the most revered and influential Buddhist texts in East Asia. It is based on the Chinese translation by the Indian monk Dharmak?ema (385â433) from a Sanskrit text of which only fragments remain. Not to be confused with an early Buddhist sutra of the same name, the <em>Nirvana Sutra</em> (as it is called in East Asian Buddhism) is most famous for its doctrine of the âbuddha-natureâ as universally present in all living beings. However, the text is also well known for its teachings on vegetarianism and for its discussion of nonemptiness as commensurate with emptiness that reverses Buddhist traditions of nonself, impermanence, and suffering; a class of nonbelievers called icchantikas who can still be saved; the denial of any corporeal dimension to ??kyamuni; and for its assertion that violent…
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The Nirvana Sutra: Volume 1 (Bdk English Tripitaka: Taisho, 374) Hardcover - 2013
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- Title The Nirvana Sutra: Volume 1 (Bdk English Tripitaka: Taisho, 374)
- Author BDK America
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 435
- Language ENG
- Publisher BDK America
- Date 2013
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781886439467
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Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research, 2013. Hardcover. New. 423 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches.
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