Bøger af Bhikshu Dharmamitra

"The Ten Grounds Sutra (Trilingual)" is an annotated English Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra of Tripitaka Master Kum¿raj¿va's circa 410 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation of the Däabh¿mika S¿tra. This sutra describes in great detail the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice on the path to buddhahood. This trilingual edition (English / Chinese / Sanskrit) includes the facing-page simplified and traditional Chinese texts along with the entire appended P. L. Vaidya Sanskrit text. The Sanskrit section headings are inset in all three languages for easy mutual correlation.

This is a treatise on the meaning of "The Sutra on Generating the Resolve to Become a Buddha." It was written by the famous early Indian shastra master and bodhisattva, Shramana Vasubandhu (ca 300 ce). In this text, Vasubandhu discourses on the causality behind the origination of the bodhisattva vow (bodhicitta) and on each of the six perfections through which that vow reaches its fruition in buddhahood.This volume includes facing-page source text in both traditional and simplified scripts, variant-readings from other editions, and translator's notes.The translation is by the American monk, Bhikshu Dharmamitra, a translator of numerous important classic Buddhist works.