Buddhist Scriptures

Homage to the Bhagavan Tathagata Ratna-shikhin. Homage to the Bhagavan Tathagata Vimala-ujjvala-ratna-rashmi-prabhasa-ketu. Homage to the Tathagata Suvarna-jambu-dhvaja-kancha-nabha. Homage to the Tathagata Suvarna-abhasa-garbha. Homage to the Tathagata...

The Diversity of Textual Versions and Editions The translation of Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior (sPyod-‘jug, Skt. Bodhisattvacarya-avatara) by Shantideva presents many textual problems. Written in Sanskrit during the first half of the eighth century C. E., several...

Then the great general of the yakshas called Samjnaya, along with the twenty-eight great generals of the yakshas, rose from his seat, put his upper robe over one shoulder and knelt on his right knee. Bowing in reverence in the direction of the Tathagata, he addressed the...

Homage to the Tathagata, the Arhat, the Fully Enlightened Ratna-kusuma-guna-sagara-vaidurya-kanaka-giri-suvarna-kanchana-prabhasa-shri. Homage to the Tathagata, the Arhat, the Fully Enlightened Shakyamuni, whose body is adorned with hundreds of thousands of millions of...

When I became a Chakravartin king, I offered the earth with its oceans, its four continents filled with jewels to all buddhas of the past.There was nothing loved nor treasured I did not surrender so I might fully seek the dharmakaya. For eons, I gave even my cherished life, as...

“O great goddess Shri, a devout son or daughter of noble family who wishes to make inconceivably great and extensive offerings of resources and articles to past, future and present buddhas, and who is keen to know the profound buddha sphere of past, future and present buddhas,...

When the Tathagata observed thus, the noble goddess Bodhisattva-samucchaya addressed the Tathagata in this way: “O Transcendent Lord, for what reason and what cause and by the consummation and performance of what virtuous deeds have these ten thousand sons of gods such as...

“O noble goddess, at a time when incalculable and still more incalculable eons – extensive, inconceivable and immeasurable – had passed, at that time, at that moment, the Tathagata, the Arhat, the Fully Enlightened One called Ratna-shikhin, perfect in wisdom and conduct, gone...

“Moreover, O noble goddess, as Jala-vahana the merchant’s son made all beings in the kingdom of King Sureshvara-prabha without illness or with merely small illness, their bodies were endowed with strength and delight as before. All beings in the kingdom of King...

“Furthermore, O noble goddess, a bodhisattva gives away even their body and life to help others. How is that so? “Accompanied by one thousand bhikshus, the Tathagata – projecting bright rays of hundreds of pure and vast virtues to heaven and earth, possessing power to eclipse...