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Paperback Buddhist Mahayana Texts Book

ISBN: 0486220931

ISBN13: 9780486220932

Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East)

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Book Overview

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.

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Rated 4 stars
Solid 19th-century scholarship

Good material, but needs sorting out. Apparently this reprint was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1894. However, the erratic pagination strongly suggests that the various parts were published separately and then combined without renumbering. (In this review all diacritical marks will be ignored, of course.) Part I (pp. xiii, 1-207, including index) consists of "The Buddha-carita of Asvaghosa" (cf.,...

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Rated 4 stars
From Theravada to Pure Land

This inexpensive volume contains several important Buddhist scriptures. Included is the Buddha Karita, the story of the Buddha's life. It is a prose translation of the original poem by the great Indian literary master, Asvaghosha. The translation was done a long time ago and so their are many Christo-centric interpretations of words that Buddhists would never use,like "soul" and "penance". Such terms should be more like "consciousness"...

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Rated 5 stars
Includes a beautiful, classic life story of the Buddha

This book consists of very early (1894) translations of several classic Buddhist texts, including the Buddha-karita, the Pure Land Sutras, and the Heart Sutra. For a more updated and scholarly translation of the Pure Land Sutras, I would recommend "The Land of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light," translated by Luis Gomez, and of course there are a number of fine modern translations of the Heart Sutra...

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