“The Sutras are like the carpenter’s ink-line, clearly distinguishing what is erroneous from what is correct …. The ink-line itself is not a feat of craftsmanship, yet the skilled artisan must rely upon it.”
Category: sutras
Learning Literary Chinese to Read Buddhist Texts (Rev. Jikai Dehn)
This is a great video by Rev. Jikai Dehn. I am posting this here to help make sure I can find it again. Over time I’ll use this post to create an annotated list of resources, many of which are mentioned in Jikai’s video.
Sutra Copying: Some good (easy) starting places
♦♦ The Great Bright Six Syllable Queen of Mantras: 唵 嘛 呢 叭 咪 吽 ♦♦ Names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas: 觀 世 音 菩 薩 (Kwanseum Bosal) 觀 自 在 菩 薩 (Kwanjajae Bosal) 地 蔵 菩 薩 (Jijang Bosal) 釋 迦 牟 尼 佛 (Sogamuni Bul) 彌 勒 尊 佛 (Mireuk Jonbul) 南 […]
Sutras from the Ratnakuta
The excellent folks at 84000 have completed translations of 22 (out of 49) of the Sutras in the Ratnakuta. Here is the master page with a link to each of the completed translations, and a placeholder for the ones they are still working on: https://read.84000.co/section/O1JC114941JC14667.html And here is a link to their overview page on […]