Flower Adornment (Avatamsaka) Sutra Chapter 13 & Chapter14 - - Hardcover

Venerable Master Hsuan Hua; Buddhist Text Translation Society

9780881394733: Flower Adornment (Avatamsaka) Sutra Chapter 13 & Chapter14 -

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ISBN 10: 0881394734 ISBN 13: 9780881394733

Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS), 2009

The Flower Adornment Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra) is known as the 'King of Kings' of all Buddhist sutras because of its profundity and great length. This sutra contains the most complete explanation of the Buddha's state of realization and the Bodhisattva's quest for awakening. It is said: Unless you read the Avatamsaka Sutra, you will not know of the Buddha's true blessings and honor. The Avatamsaka Sutra is the Buddha's greatest store of treasures. In forty chapters the sutra conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. It presents, in detailed description, the stages of Awakening that a Bodhisattva or 'Awakened Being must progress through on the path towards Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi Supreme Perfect Enlightenment. The sutra depicts the events that immediately unfolded upon the Buddha's Awakening under the Bodhi tree. It describes a cosmos that has infinite realms within realms, boundless and interpenetrating.
In Chapter 13, the World Honored One ascends to Mount Sumeru and goes to the Trayastrimsha Heaven, also known as the Heaven of the Thirty-three, to speak Dharma. Lord Shakra sees the Buddha approaching and immediately adorns his palace. He welcomes the Buddha and entreats the World Honored One to stay.
In Chapter 14, Praises atop Mount Sumeru, innumerable Bodhisattvas from other Buddhalands join the Assembly. The same manifestation occurs on the peak of Mount Sumeru as in other worlds. The World Honored One emits light from his toes. Dharma Wisdom Bodhisattva arrives. Relying on the Buddha s awesome might, he speaks verses. Other Bodhisattvas, receive the Buddha s empowerment and speak verses.

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The Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) is dedicated to making the principles of the Buddhadharma available to Western readers in a form that can be directly applied to practice. Since 1972, the Society has been publishing English translations of sutras, instructional handbooks on meditation and moral conduct, and biographies. Most of the Society s sutra translations are accompanied by contemporary commentary, based on lectures spoken by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua.
The accurate and faithful translation of the Buddhist Canon into English and other Western languages is one of the primary objectives of the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA), the parent organization of the Buddhist Text Translation Society. Translators, bilingual reviewers, English editors, and bilingual certifiers are members of BTTS. Master Hua is the founder of DRBA, which is headquartered at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, near Ukiah, California, and has 24 branch monasteries in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia.

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