Circle of enlightenment Sutra Briefly said

Author: Nan Huaijin
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Features: The Circle of Awakening Sutra is an important classic practiced by the Five Regulators during the Tang Dynasty. Its full title is The Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra of the Profound Meaning of the Complete Enlightenment, According to the Word of the Buddha. It is a single scroll translated by Buddhasaricanda during the Tang Dynasty. The sutra presents the Buddha teaching the twelve bodhisattvas, including Manjushri, one by one, in response to their requests, explaining the theory of "depending on the pure perception of complete enlightenment to forever cut off ignorance" and the practices of "cultivating the path," "cultivating meditation," and "cultivating contemplation." The fifth patriarch of the Huayan school, Zongmi, said, "I encountered the Southern School in meditation and encountered the Circle of Awakening in teaching," indicating that he attained enlightenment in the teaching principles by reading the Circle of Awakening Sutra. Later, he wrote works such as The Great Commentary on the Circle of Awakening Sutra, The Great Commentary and Notes on the Circle of Awakening Sutra, and The Ritual for the Practice and Realization of the Circle of Awakening Sutra, to promote the Circle of Awakening Sutra, which thus became renowned in the Buddhist world. This book is a lecture by the renowned Taiwanese scholar, Nan Huaijin, on the Circle of Awakening Sutra. It was originally serialized in a Buddhist magazine and later compiled into a book. With his profound academic foundation, the author explains the original text of the Circle of Awakening Sutra sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph, transforming the difficult and obscure into the clear and easy, making it highly readable. By authorization of the author and the original publisher, Old Ancient Culture Publishing Company of Taiwan, this revised edition is published to provide for research purposes. The Circle of Awakening Sutra is an important classic practiced by the Five Regulators during the Tang Dynasty. Its full title is The Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra of the Profound Meaning of the Complete Enlightenment, According to the Word of the Buddha. It is a single scroll translated by Buddhasaricanda during the Tang Dynasty. The sutra presents the Buddha teaching the twelve bodhisattvas, including Manjushri, one by one, in response to their requests, explaining the theory of "depending on the pure perception of complete enlightenment to forever cut off ignorance" and the practices of "cultivating the path," "cultivating meditation," and "cultivating contemplation." This book is a lecture by the renowned Taiwanese scholar, Nan Huaijin, on the Circle of Awakening Sutra. It was originally serialized in a Buddhist magazine and later compiled into a book. With his profound academic foundation, the author explains the original text of the Circle of Awakening Sutra sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph, transforming the difficult and obscure into the clear and easy, making it highly readable.