The Shurangama Sutra: The Fifty Skandha-Demon States - Based on the Translation into Chinese by Dharma Master Paramiti (Bilingual: English and Chinese Edition) - Hardcover

Venerable Master Hsuan Hua; Buddhist Text Translation Society

 
9780881394009: The Shurangama Sutra: The Fifty Skandha-Demon States - Based on the Translation into Chinese by Dharma Master Paramiti (Bilingual: English and Chinese Edition)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0881394009 ISBN 13: 9780881394009
Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS), 1996

Synopsis

When on the path of enlightenment, one is easily waylaid by false states of awakening. This volume of the Shurangama Sutra explains in detail fifty kinds of deviant mental states, the causes of these states and the ways to recognize them. This sutra offers a framework for the classification of all spiritual experiences, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist. Bilingual Chinese/English edition. English only edition has ISBN 0-88139-401-7.

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About the Author

Born in Manchuria, China in 1918, the late Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua became a monk at age 19. He taught at the Nan Hua Vinya Academy in Canton where the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng taught in the 7th century. In 1962, he came to America with the vow to establish orthodox Buddhism in the west. Before his passing, he had established 28 monasteries in North America and Asia and lectured the sutras for 50 years.

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Publisher
Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS)
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0881394009
ISBN 13 
9780881394009
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
698