'DOWNLOAD [Pdf] The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary By Red Pine Free Read

[sam...@ruytt.hstn.me]

Read and download eBook By : Red Pine ( The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary ) in PDF, EPub online.

 

The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary

by Red Pine

 

 

Click Here Download =>Download Or Read Here

 

Descriptions :

Synopsis : Having translated The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, and following with The Platform Sutra, Red Pine now turns his attention to perhaps the greatest Sutra of all. The Lankavatara Sutra is the holy grail of Zen. Zen?s First Patriarch, Bodhidharma, gave a copy of this text to his successor, Hui-k?o, and told him everything he needed to know was in this book. Passed down from teacher to student ever since, this is the only Zen sutra ever spoken by the Buddha. Although it covers all the major teachings of Mahayana Buddhism, it contains but two teachings: that everything we perceive as being real is nothing but the perceptions of our own mind and that the knowledge of this is something that must be realized and experienced for oneself and cannot be expressed in words. In the words of Chinese Zen masters, these two teachings became known as ?have a cup of tea? and ?taste the tea.? This is the first translation into English of the original text used by Bodhidharma, which was the Chinese

 

Details :

Author : Red Pine

Pages : 320 pages

Publisher : Counterpoint

Language :

ISBN-10 : 1619020998

ISBN-13 : 9781619020993