7. Mahayana Sutras
In this topic we consider those Mahayana Sutras not included under Topic 9, Emptiness Teachings. If early Buddhism was psychologically oriented, focusing on individual liberation and serious spiritual cultivation, Mahayana Buddhism was largely a Buddhism of enthusiasm, devotion, and faith. Its vision was cosmic and extravagant, its literature expansive, poetic, almost over the top. The Lotus sutra was a major influence on Dogen’s Zen and the most widely read Buddhist text throughout the Far East. The Avatamsaka sutra’s cosmic vision of worlds within worlds, atoms within atoms, time and space dissolved, seems to anticipate quantum physics. Its teachings stands behind much of Chinese Zen, as do those of the Vimalakirti sutra, a much shorter and pithier text. The Surangama sutra is a little more obscure but has been important to our study for its analysis of perception and consciousness.
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In this profound and beautiful sutra, translated here by Robert Thurman, Vimalakirti, a layman, teaches the Mahayana ...
The Lotus Sutra is an important text for all of Far East Asian Buddhism. It recasts the Buddha as a cosmic principle ...
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A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on the Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
A series of talks on this Chinese Sutra. Includes material on perception and consciousness.
Part One of a series of five talks on the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra is important text for all of Far East Asian Bu...
Part Two of a series of five talks on the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra is important text for all of Far East Asian Bu...
Part Three of a series of five talks on the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra is important text for all of Far East Asian ...
Part Four of a series of five talks on the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra is important text for all of Far East Asian B...
Part Five of a series of five talks on the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra is important text for all of Far East Asian B...
Zoketsu lectures on this well known sutra.
Norman introduces the first reading of the Avatamsaka Sutra -Thomas Cleary translation published by Shambhala Publica...
Norman introduces the second reading of the Avatamsaka Sutra - Thomas Cleary translation published by Shambhala Publi...
Norman introduces the third reading of the Avatamsaka Sutra - Thomas Cleary translation published by Shambhala Public...
Norman leads the fourth reading of the Avatamsaka Sutra -Thomas Cleary translation published by Shambhala Publication...
Norman leads the fifth and final reading of the Avatamsaka Sutra -Thomas Cleary translation published by Shambhala Pu...
Norman begins the Dharma Seminar series on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doc...
Norman gives the second call of the Dharma Seminar series on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana...
Norman gives his third talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Found...
Norman gives his fourth talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foun...
Chris Fortin gives the fifth talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal...
Norman gives the sixth talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Found...
Norman gives his seventh talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Fou...
Norman gives his eighth and final talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doc...
Norman gives the first talk on the Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 ...
Norman gives the third talk on the Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 ...
Norman gives the fifth talk on the Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 ...
Norman gives the sixth talk on the Lankavantara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 ...
Norman gives his seventh talk on the Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012...
Norman gives his eighth talk on Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 edit...
Norman gives the ninth talk on the Lankavatara Sutra to the Dharma Seminar. This series is based on Red Pine's 2012 e...
Norman speaks on the Prajnaparimita Sutra based on the book Living by Vow by Shohaku Okumura .
Norman gives the second talk on the Prajnaparamitra Sutra (Heart Sutra) based on the book Living by Vow by Shohaku Ok...
Norman gives the fourth and final talk on the Prajnaparamita Sutra based on the book Living by Vow by Shohaku Okumura.
Norman gives his first talk on the Sandokai at the Loon Lake Sesshin 2013. This is the second talk of the Sesshin.
Norman gives his third and last talk on the Sandokai to the 2013 Loon Lake Sesshin. This is the fourth and final tal...
Chris Fortin gives her second talk on the Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala to the Dharma Seminar.
Norman gives the first of two talks on the Prajna Paramita 8,000 Lines to the Calgary Sangha.
Norman gives the second talk on the Prajna Paramita 8,000 Lines to the Calgary Sangha.
Norman gives the second dharma talk at the Angela Center Sesshin on Virya Paramita.
Norman gives his third talk to the 2015 Angela Center Session on Meditation.
Norman gives his fourth talk at the Angela Center Session 2015 on Dogen's Zazen.
Norman gives his fifth talk at the Angela Center Sesshin 2015 on Prajna Paramita.
Norman gives his seventh talk in the Six Paramitas 2015 series on Compassion.
At the February 2016 All Day Sitting, Norman gives a talk on Two Suttas from Old Path White Clouds: On Breathing and ...
Norman gives the first talk on the Mahaparinirvana Sutta as found in The Long Discourses of the Buddha - Translation ...
Sue Moon speaks on "The Perfection of Enthusiasm" to the Sky Island Zen group.
Jaune Evans gives the sixth talk in the Wold Could Be Otherwise series on "Imagination Saves Lives"
Jeff Bickner gives the sixth talk on the Vimalikirti 2020 series to the Dharma Seminar.
Norman gives the eighth and final talk of the Vimalakirti Sutra 2020 to the Dharma Seminar on Chapters 10, 11, and 12.
To conclude our 2020 Vimalakirti Sutra series, Patricia Sullivan was joined by some sangha members in a special perfo...
Norman gives the last talk of the 2020 Vimalakiriti series at the February All Day Sitting at Green Gulch Farms.
Kathie Fischer gives the second talk of the Platform Sutra 2020 series based on the teachings of the sixth ancestor H...
Kathie Fischer gives the third talk of the Platform Sutra 2020 series based on the teachings of the sixth ancestor Hu...
Kathie Fischer gives the fourth and last talk of the Platform Sutra 2020 series based on the teachings of the sixth a...
Norman gives his first talk of The Lotus Sutra 2020 series to the EDZ All Day Sitting September 2020 based on the Gen...
Norman gives his second talk of The Lotus Sutra 2020 series to the Dharma Seminar based on the Gene Reeves edition o...
Norman gives his third talk on The Lotus Sutra 2020 series titled "Universal Inclusion" to The Upaya Zen Center.
Norman gives his fourth talk on The Lotus Sutra speaking on Chapters 3 and 4 based on the Gene Reeves edition.
Norman gives the sixth talk of the Lotus Sutra 2020 series on Chapters 5 & 6 based on the Gene Reeves edition of the ...
Norman gives his seventh talk of the Lotus Sutra 2020 Series on Chapter 7 of The Lotus Sutra based on Gene Reeves edi...
Norman gives the eighth talk of the Lotus Sutra 2020 series and the second Sesshin Talk on Chapters 8, 9 and 10 based...
Norman gives the ninth talk on the Lotus Sutra 2020 series on Chapter 11 and is the third talk of the Dharma Seminar ...
Norman gives the 10th talk on the Lotus Sutra 2020 series on Chapter 12 and is the fourth talk of the Dharma Seminar ...
Norman gives his 11th talk in The Lotus Sutra 2020 series on Chapters 12 - 14. This is the fifth and final talk of th...
Norman gives the 12th talk on The Lotus Sutra on Chapters 15 and 16 to the Dharma Seminar.
Norman gives his 16th talk of the Lotus Sutra 2020 Series to the Dharma Seminar on Chapters 21 thru 24.
Norman gives his 17th and last talk of the Lotus Sutra 2020 series to the Everyday Zen November All Day Sitting.
Norman gives his second talk on the Sandokai 2021 series. Also known as "The Harmony of Difference and Sameness," Nor...
Norman gives his fourth talk of the Sandokai 2021 series, Also known as "The Harmony of Difference and Sameness," Nor...
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Norman gives his seventh talk on Mahayana Buddhism based on Paul Williams' book "Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Fou...
Norman gives his first talk on the Sandokai at the Loon Lake Sesshin 2013. This is the second talk of the Sesshin.
Norman gives his third and last talk on the Sandokai to the 2013 Loon Lake Sesshin. This is the fourth and final tal...
Norman gives his fifth talk at the Angela Center Sesshin 2015 on Prajna Paramita.