Self Realization of Noble Wisdom: The Lankavatara Sutra
By Dwight Goddard.
Description
The Lankavatara Sutra is among the key scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Moreover, it is one of the few texts from all spiritual traditions that directly communicate from the disposition of ultimate Realization. The subject of study and commentaries by many great Masters, the Lankavatara was the most influential of all Buddhist scriptures in fixing the general doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism and in bringing about the adoption of Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan. In an ancient story about Bodhidharma, founder of the Ch'an sect in China (Zen in Japan), he is said to have handed over his...
ISBN(s)
091392279X, 9780913922798
