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A Buddhist Bible
Dwight Goddard · Buddhism · 1932 CE
Translated by Dwight Goddard
31 chapters
Goddard's 1932 anthology that introduced Mahayana and Zen Buddhism to the Beat generation — the Lankavatara Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra, and the Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng, with a history of Ch'an Buddhism.
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Contents
- 1Preface
- 2History of Ch'an Buddhism Previous to the Times of Hui-Neng
- 3Lankavatara Sutra: Preface
- 4Lankavatara Sutra: Introduction
- 5Lankavatara Sutra: I. Discrimination
- 6Lankavatara Sutra: II. False-Imagination and Knowledge of Appearances
- 7Lankavatara Sutra: III. Right Knowledge or Knowledge of Relations
- 8Lankavatara Sutra: IV. Perfect Knowledge, or Knowledge of Reality
- 9Lankavatara Sutra: V. The Mind System
- 10Lankavatara Sutra: VI. Transcendental Intelligence
- 11Lankavatara Sutra: VII. Self-Realisation
- 12Lankavatara Sutra: VIII. The Attainment of Self-Realisation
- 13Lankavatara Sutra: IX. The Fruit of Self-Realisation
- 14Lankavatara Sutra: X. Discipleship: Lineage of the Arhats
- 15Lankavatara Sutra: XI. Bodhisattvahood and Its Stages
- 16Lankavatara Sutra: XII. Tathagatahood Which Is Noble Wisdom
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