Lankavatara Sutra ~ Mahayana Buddhism

A reading of excerpts taken from Chapter 1 of The Laṅkāvatāra
Sūtra - translated by Suzuki and Goddard. The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
was first translated into Chinese in the 5th century and has been
the subject of many treatises and commentaries. It is a
distinctive and influential philosophical discourse in the
Mahayana Buddhist tradition. The sutra recounts a teaching
primarily between Gautama Buddha and a bodhisattva named Mahāmati
("Great Wisdom"). The sūtra is set in mythical Laṅkā, ruled by
Rāvaṇa, the king of the rākṣasas. The Laṅkāvatāra discusses
numerous Mahayana topics, such as Yogācāra philosophy of
mind-only (cittamātra) and the three natures, the ālayavijñāna
(store-house consciousness), the inner "disposition" (gotra), the
buddha-nature, the luminous mind (prabhāsvaracitta), emptiness
(śūnyatā) and vegetarianism. It is also notably an important
sūtra in Zen Buddhism, as it discusses the key issue of "sudden
enlightenment".


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the benefit of all sentient beings.


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