Buddhist Scriptures

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...

Then at that time, at that moment, the noble goddess Bodhisattva-samucchaya praised the Tathagata: Homage to the Buddha, who is possessed of an utterly immaculate mind and presides over an utterly flawless Dharma. Perfectly knowing existence and non-existence, his sublime mind...

Homage to all past, future and present buddhas, bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas and shravakas! Thus I have heard at one time: the Tathagata, entering buddhas’ domain of experience, the profound sphere of reality, at Vulture Peak expounded to the supreme bodhisattvas, who were...

Question: What do the theory and practice of translation mean? Dr. Berzin: The theory of translation has to do with rules of grammar and how you go from one language to another, without adding anything or leaving anything out. One tries to be faithful to the style of the text:...

Coordinating Multi-language Translation Projects I’ve been asked to give three presentations today and tomorrow, and I think the best contribution I can make is to share our practical experience from Berzin Archives on how to deal with organizing these topics – ...

Introduction The terms Hinayana (Theg-dman) and Mahayana (Theg-chen), meaning modest or “lesser” vehicle and vast or “greater” vehicle, first appeared in The Sutras on Far-reaching Discriminating Awareness (Sher-phyin-gyi mdo, Skt. Prajnaparamita Sutras; The Perfection of...

One night, without distraction, I dreamed a vivid dream: I saw a large and beautiful drum filling the world with golden light and glowing like the sun. Beaming brightly to all places, it was seen from ten directions. Everywhere buddhas were seated on thrones of precious lapis...

Then at that time the Tathagata spoke these verses: In numerous other inconceivable sutras, I have expounded empty phenomena in detail. Hence, here in this supreme sutra empty phenomena I will just briefly explain. As beings of slight intelligence, ignorant, are incapable of...

“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...