Buddhist Scriptures

Edward Conze

PRENTICE/HALL

A landmark publication which offers Western readers a unique combination of what Buddhists worldwide consider the holiest of holy texts The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, two sutras, or scriptures, ascribed to the early centuries of the first millennium. The Diamond Sutra, or the Perfection of Wisdom, which cuts like a thunderbolt, is one of the cornerstone texts of Mahayana Buddhism and provides a summary of the core concepts of the Buddha. The Heart Sutra, perhaps the most important of all Buddhist texts, sets out to formulate the very heart, or essence of perfect wisdom and is studied with special reverence in Zen monasteries and the Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries. Edward Conze, who was until his death in 1979 a powerful force for introducing Buddhism and its sacred texts to the West, has provided these translated key texts with an extensive commentary for the easiest possible appreciation phrase by phrase. For this new edition, Judith Simmer-Brown, a well-known American scholar of Buddhism, has contributed a lively, context-setting introduction. In the annals of spirituality, certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind’s relation to the divine.

Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra

Self-Help

Thornton, John F.

Simmer-Brown, Judith

Varenne, Susan

Personal Transformation

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The short Prajñāpāramitā texts;

Religion & Spirituality

Luzac

Buddhism : Its Essence and Development

Buddhism

Bruno Casserir

Further Buddhist studies: Selected essays

Bruno Cassirer Ltd

Buddhist Meditation

Taylor&Francis

Buddhist Thought In India

Routledge

Buddhist Thought in India

English trans. of a Tibetan work, on birds of Himalayas meeting under the leadership of the cuckoo on a holy mountain and how they were instructed in the Buddhist way of life and thinking. a simple introduction to Tibetan faith. includes introd. notes. a classic. rp.1955ed.

The Buddha's Law Among the Birds

Motilal Banarsidass Pub

Some two thousand years ago Buddhism experienced a major reformation through a movement called the Mahayana, or "Great Vehicle," which dominated religious thought in much of Asia for many centuries and still exerts considerable influence. The basic Mahayana texts were sermons ascribed to the Buddha, called "Sutras" in Sanskrit. The earliest and most influential of these Mahayana Sutras had the "perfection of wisdom" as its main subject matter. Of these texts, the famous "Diamond" and "Heart" Sutras have been known in the West for many years, but they are merely condensations of the original "Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom" that took shape between 50 and 200 A.D. In the present volume, Dr. Conze offers the result of thirty-five years of close study, and makes available this "Large Sutra," the key document for dealing with early Mahayana doctrine. This scripture has, throughout the centuries, been revered as "The great mother of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas" not only in India but in China, Tibet, Japan, Mongolia and Southeast Asia as well. It is now made available in its complete form for the first time in an annotated translation.

Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom With the Divisions of the Abhisamayalankara

Conze, Edward

Motilal Banarsidass

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