Buddhism - Notes

1. Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning (N.Y.: Weatherhill, 1979), 145.

2. Shin-jen-mei, trans. and ed. by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth S. McCandless, in Buddhism and Zen (N.Y.: Philosophical Library, 1953), 55.

3. In W. Woodville Rockhill, Udanavarga: A Collection of Verses from the Buddhist Canon (London: Trubner & Co., 1883), 199.

4. Hsuan Hua, Amitabha Sutra (San Francisco: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1974), 31.

5. "Innumerable Meanings Sutra," in The Three Fold Lotus Sutra, trans. by Bunno Kato, Yoshiro Tamura, and Kojiro Miyasaka (Tokyo: Kosei Publishing, 1986), 6-7.

6. The Diamond Sutra, trans. by Nicholas Poppe (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1971), 145.

7. The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra, vol. 6, trans. by Kumarajiva of Yao Ch'in (San Francisco: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1980), 1116.

8. Lotus Sutra, trans. by Burton Watson (NY: Columbia University Press, 1993), 18.

9. Trans. by Ryukoku University Translation Centre, under the direction of Meiji Yamada (Kyoto: Ryukoku University, 1984), 35, 57 & 59).

10. "The Land of Bliss," in The Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, trans. by E.B. Cowell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), 28-29.

11. "Amitayur-Dyana Sutra: Meditation on Buddha-Amitayus," in Cowell, 180-185.

12. Cowell, 6.

13. "The Wonderful Adornments of the Leaders of the World," in The Flower Ornament Scripture, vol. 1, trans. by Thomas Cleary (Boulder, Col.: Shambala, 1984), 82-83.

14. "The Flower Bank World," Creary, 204.

15. "The Flower Bank World," Creary, 251.

16. "Vairocana," Creary, 257.

17. "Vairocana," Creary, 262-264.

18. "Ten Practices," Creary, 483.

19. "Ascent to the Palace of the Tushita Heaven," Creary, 510-511.

20. Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma, trans. by Leon Hurvitz (NY: Columbia University Press, 1976), 127.

21. W.E. Soothill, The Lotus of the Wonderful Law (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1930), 242.

22. "On Emptiness," in Garma C.C. Chang (ed.), A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections form the Maharatnakuta Sutra (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983), 92.

23. Chang, 18.

24. W.Y. Evans-Wentz (ed.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), 92-95.

25. Evans-Wentz, 167.

26. Evans-Wentz, 96.

27. Watson, 7.

28. Evans-Wentz, 150.

29. "On Pure Land," in Chang, 348.

30. Cleary, 84-128.

31. Cleary, 258.

32. Cleary, 534-535.

33. Cleary, 346.

34. Chang, 18-19.

35. Chang, 192-193.

36. Chang, 203.

37. Chang, 346-347.

38. Shurangama Sutra, vol. 5, trans. by Bhikshuni Heng Ch'ih (Talmage, Ca.: Dharma Realm Buddhist University, 1981), 60.

39. Cleary, 75.

40. Cleary, 354-355.

41. Evans-Wentz, 90-91.

42. Evans-Wentz, 125; see also 125n.

43. Evans-Wentz, 135.

44. Evans-Wentz, 176.

45. Evans-Wentz, 199.