A sutra is a short passage that contains powerful teaching. Think of them as sacred messages from ancient gurus, sages, and teachers of the age. In Sanskrit, the word sutra literally means thread.
Ancient teachers used the threads of the sutras to weave together tapestries of great lessons and ideas. Sutras can be found in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. If sutras are the recorded words of ancient teachers, who recorded them? And who were the teachers? In Buddhism, many of the important sutras practiced today come from the Buddha himself and the holy teachers, or bodhisattvas , of Buddhism.
Monks first preserved the teachings by passing them down by word of mouth before recorded them in the following years. There are sutras divided into 4 groups. PDF: English Vietnamese. Visit the Sutra of Golden Light homepage to download the sutra, find resources, and report your recitations.
The Sutra of Great Liberation is an important Mahayana sutra that is also often recited and greatly cherished in Tibet. The sutra contains teachings on various topics, as well as the names of many enlightened beings.
The sutra is often recited for those who have passed away, and even just having a copy of it has great benefits. Rinpoche teaches that receiving the oral transmission of the sutra, reading it, reciting it, and writing it out, etc.
The translation into English of the Sutra of Great Liberation is underway. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends reciting this sutra on merit multiplying days.
The Sanghata Sutra promises to transform all those who read it. Like other sutras, the Sanghata Sutra records an oral teaching given by the Buddha, but unlike other sutras, Buddha explains that he himself had heard this sutra from a previous buddha. While these sutras are clearly not the direct oral teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, they are regarded by followers of the Mahayana as being no less, and perhaps more, important than the Pali texts.
Many of the Mahayana sutras, such as the Lotus Sutra, the Lankavatara Sutra, and the Sukhavati-vyuba Sutra, became the foundations for new schools of Buddhism. While some schools of Buddhism emphasize the study and also the memorization of sutras as a means to understand the nature of practice and to embody the Buddhist teachings, some schools, primarily Zen, emphasize that Buddhist practitioners must not rely on words.
The scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. The authors of these sutras are unknown. They take their authority from the many generations of teachers and scholars who have recognized their wisdom. The list below is not exhaustive, but these are some of the most commonly referenced sutras.
The Brahma Net is a discourse on discipline and morality. In particular, it contains the Ten Bodhisattva Precepts. The Flower Garland Sutra, sometimes called the Flower Ornament Sutra, is a collection of smaller sutras that emphasize the interpenetration of all things. That is, all things and all beings not only reflect all other things and beings but also the Absolute in its totality. Also called "The Sutra of the Heroic One," the Shurangama also spelled Suramgama or Surangama stresses the importance of samadhi to the realization of enlightenment.
It provided a basis for the Madhyamaka teachings of Nagarjuna. Lankavatara means "entering into Sri Lanka. He expounds upon the " mind only " doctrine, which teaches that individual things exist only as processes of knowing. Put another way, our minds perceive reality in terms of an observer us and distinctive things observed.
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