Mindbird Maps & Books | homeBuddhism: An Introduction · General Buddhism · Theravada · Mahayana · Tibetan · Zen or Ch'an · Other Traditions of Asian Origin · Krishnamurti
Mahayana
The Greater Vehicle
Tibetan and Zen Buddhism are also often considered to be a part of the Mahayana tradition but are given separate pages in this website.
Dhyana Master Hsuan Hua, A General Explanation of the Vajra Prajna Paramita SutraContents
1: The Reasons For the Dharma Assembly
2: Subhuti's Request
3: The Orthodox Doctrine of The Great Vehicle
4: Wonderful Conduct Without Dwelling
5: The "Thus" Principle of Genuine Seeing
6: Proper Belief Is Rare
7: Nothing Attained, Nothing Spoken
8: Relying on Dharma They Come Forth
9: The One Mark is No Mark
10: The Adornment of Pure Lands
11: The Supremacy of Unconditioned Blessings
12: Revering the Orthodox Teaching
13: Receiving and Holding "Thus" Dharma
14: Still Extinction Apart from Marks
15: The Merit and Virtue of Holding the Sutra
16: Karmic Obstructions can be Purified
17: Ultimately There is No Self
18: One Substance Regarded as Identical
19: The Dharmarealm Penetrated and Transformed
20: Apart from Form and Apart from Marks
21: Spoken Yet Not Spoken
22: There is No Dharma Which can be Obtained
23: The Pure Heart Practices Good
24: Blessings and Wisdom Beyond Compare
25: Transformations Without What is Transformed
26: The Dharma Body Has No Marks
27: Not Cut Off and Not Extinguished
28: No Reception and No Greed
29: The Stillness of the Awesome Manner
30: The Totality of Principle and Marks
31: Neither Knowing Nor Seeing is Produced
32: The Response and Transformation Bodies are Unreal
The Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1974. 171 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
Item #908. Shipping weight: 0.8 lb. Publisher's price: $8.00. Your price: $8.00
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, Great Strength Bodhisattva's Perfect Penetration"If you recite the Buddha's name single-mindedly, you can control the six sense faculties, turn states around, and put an end to all your random, scattered thoughts. If your recitation is not interrupted, then you will surely be born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. And so continuity is very important. You cannot recite some and then stop. Your recitation should be so natural that even if you wanted to stop, you wouldn't be able to. The recitation will carry on by itself, and you won't be able to halt it. It will be the only thing on your mind."
Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1997. 75 pages, about 6 x 8 inches, paperback. New.
Item #931. Shipping weight: 0.8 lb. Publisher's price: $5.00. Your price: $5.00
Tripitaka Master Hua, A General Explanation of The Buddha Speaks of Amitabha SutraContents
Part I: The Five-fold Profound Meanings
Explaining the Name
Describing the Substance
Clarifying the Principle
Discussing the Function
Determining the Teaching Mark
Part II: The Translator
Part III: Explanation of the Sutra Text
Ananda's Four Questions
The Four Applications of Mindfulness
The Six Requirements
The Benefactor's Garden
The Six Harmonious Unities of the Sangha
The Assembly of Arhats
The Assembly of Bodhisattvas
Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1974. 159 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
Item #910. Shipping weight: 0.9 lb. Publisher's price: $8.00. Your price: $8.00
Tripitaka Master Hua, Records of High Sanghans, Volume 1Translated into English by Dharma Realm University, International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts.
Accounts of the miraculous deeds of Chinese Buddhist masters, extolling the benefits of Buddhist virtue. Skepticism is in order, but the stories are fascinating.
Covers the Venerable High Masters Kashyapa Matanga and Gobharana; the Venerable An Shi Kao; the Venerable K'ang Seng Hui; the Venerable Vighna; Tripitaka Master, the Venerable Kumarajiva; the Venerable Buddhayashas; the Venerable Buddhabhadra; the Venerable Dharmaraksha; the Venerable Fa Hsien; the High and Virtuous Master Gunavarman; the Venerable Dharmamitra; the Venerable Chih Meng; the Venerable Kalayashas; the Venerable Gunabhadra; Dharma Master K'ang Fa Lang; the Venerable Shih Tao An; the Venerable Shih Fa Ho; the Venerable Shih Seng Lang.
Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1983. 146 pages, about 5½ x 8½ inches, illustrated, paperback.
Item #933. Shipping weight: 0.8 lb. Publisher's price: $7.00. Your price: $7.00
Tripitaka Master Hua (commentator), The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform SutraContents:
Introduction
Chapter I: Action and Intention
Chapter II: Prajna
Chapter III: Doubts and Questions
Chapter IV: Concentration and Wisdom
Chapter V: Sitting in Ch'an
Chapter VI: Repentence and Reform
Chapter VII: Opportunities and Conditions
Chapter VIII: Sudden and Gradual
Chapter IX: Proclamation
Chapter X: Final Instructions
The Sino-American Buddhist Association, Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1977 (second edition). 344 pages, about 5½ x 9 inches, illustrated, hardcover (no dust jacket).
Item #911. Shipping weight: 1.8 lbs. Publisher's price: $15.00. Your price: $15.00
Tripitaka Master Hua (commentator), The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform SutraThis is a newer edition of the same book described immediately above. The chapter titles are the same, and the main difference appears to be that this edition uses more professional-appearing, easier-to-read type, and this edition costs a little more.
Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2002 (third edition). 445 pages, about 6 x 8½ inches, illustrated, hardcover (no dust jacket).
Item #820. Shipping weight: 2.2 lbs. Publisher's price: $18.00. Your price: $18.00
Tripitaka Master Hua, Water Mirror Reflecting Heaven"With great heroism let us direct our thoughts towards the good; resolve to cultivate and realize the results of the Way; take others across and reach the other shore together; join the assembly of all superior and good people in one place; and forever be companions of irreversible Bodhisattvas . . . Like the moon reflected in water, like flowers in a mirror, all these things are merely images without any substance, it may be said to be hoping for that which is without hope, accomplishing what cannot be accomplished, so it is for this reason the book is called Water Mirror Reflecting Heaven."
Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1982. 77 page, about 5½ x 8½, paperback. New.
Item #932. Shipping weight: 0.7 lb. Publisher's price: $4.00. Your price: $4.00
Elder Master Hui Seng (commentator), The Buddha Speaks the Brahma Net Sutra, Part I & IIA two-volume set, with English in front and Chinese in the back of each volume. Covers the ten major and forty-eight minor Bodhisattva precepts. Translated into Chinese by Yao Ch'in Dynasty Tripitaka Master Kumarajiva. Commentary of Elder Master Hui Seng translated into English by Dharma Realm Buddhist University.
Includes many fantastic tales of miraculous acts of the Buddha and his disciples as teaching examples. Persons of a rational, scientific bent will find them far-fetched, but they are interesting as examples of religious folklore.
Published by Dharma Realm Buddhist University / Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1981. Part I: 179 pages in English, 109 pages in Chinese. Part II: 132 pages in English, about 60 pages in Chinese. Illustrated, about 5½ x 8½ inches, paperback. New.
Item #821. Shipping weight: 2.0 lbs. Publisher's price: $20.00 (2 volume set). Your price: $20.00 (2 volume set)
R.C. Jamieson (selected and translated by), The Perfection of Wisdom Illustrated with ancient Sanskrit manuscripts; foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama.
"For followers of the Mahayana or 'Great Vehicle' traditions of Buddhism, The Perfection of Wisdom sutras represent the epitome of the Buddha's teachings. . . . [T]hey deal with what we call wisdom and method, that is, the correct view of reality and the conduct or way of life of a bodhisattva, one who seeks enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. . .
"This book on the perfection of wisdom will serve as an inspiration too. It not only attempts to convey some of the principal contents and spirit of the original scriptures in English that may be easily understood today, but also includes enchanting illustrations from the oldest Indian manuscript in existence. I am sure that readers will find it both illuminating and delightful."—The Dalai Lama
Published by Viking Studio, 2000. 109 pages, hardcover. New.
Item #654. Shipping weight: 1.5 lbs. Publisher price: $19.95. Your price: $10.00
Bunno Kato, et al (translators), The Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal VirtueAccording to Mahayana tradition, the Lotus Sutra "consists of a series of sermons delivered by the Buddha toward the end of his forty-year teaching ministry before a great multitude of disciples and other beings ranging from gods to demons. The setting and scope are cosmic, but the sermons themselves, presented in both prose and verse, are replete with parables and graphic anecdotes.
"At the heart of the sutra are three major concepts of Mahayana Buddhism: 1) All sentient beings can attain Perfect Enlightenment—that is, buddhahood—and nothing less than this is the appropriate final goal of believers. 2) The Buddha is eternal, having existed from the infinite past and appearing in many forms throughout the ages to guide and succor beings through the teaching of the Wonderful Law. And 3) The noblest form of Buddhist practice is the way of the bodhisattva, one who devotes himself to attaining enlightenment not only for himself but for all sentient beings."
Translated by Bunno Kato, Yoshiro Tamura, and Kojiro Miyasaka with revisions by W.E. Soothill, Wilhelm Schiffer, and Pier P. Del Campana.
Kosei Publishing, 1975 (2005 printing). 383 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
Item #641. Shipping weight: 1.8 lbs. Publisher's price: $16.95. Your price: $15.25
Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara Translated from the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group.
This "Entry into the Activities of Enlightenment" (the literal translation of the title) is "presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse" and shows the path of Bodhisattvas, the beings who resolve to delay personal enlightenment until all beings are saved from suffering. "Originally written in India in Sanskrit, the text first appeared in Tibetan translation soon after its composition in the eighth century. The fact that it has been expounded, studied, and practiced in Tibet in an unbroken tradition lends the Tibetan version of this classic a particular authority. The present translation has therefore been rendered from the Tibetan, following a commentary by the Nyingma master Kunzang Pelden, renowned for its thoroughness, clarity, and accessibility."
Published by Shambhala, 1997. 214 pages, about 6 x 9 inches, paperback. New.
Item #810. Shipping weight: 1.2 lbs. Publisher's price: $14.95. Your price: $13.45
Original content copyright © Lee Dittmann of Mindbird Maps & Books.
Images may be copyright © by the creator of the items depicted. Essential ordering details, including phone, fax, mail, and online options, shipping fees and delivery times, returns, special orders, privacy policy, and more are described on the How to Order page. |