Buddhism

The Buddhist thinkers of medieval India addressed many of the issues that are still central to Buddhist praxis in the present. One of the most important of those thinkers is …

Records the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch. This work is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials.

Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Taisho No. 2582) is the masterwork of the thirteenth-century Zen master Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism. …

The Sutra on Upasaka Precepts sets forth the moral code to be observed by lay followers of Buddhism. It comprehensively elucidates the content, practice, and essence of the moral …

The Brahma’s Net Sutra plays an important niche role in the development of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the primary extant Vinaya text that articulates the precepts from a …

This is the second in a series of volumes translating The Canonical Book of the Buddha’s Lengthy Discourses (Taisho 1). Volume 2 contains sutras 11–20 (of 30). Translations of the …

Kyogyoshinsho presents a collection of 376 passages from 62 sutras, discourses, and commentaries, organized into a coherent and comprehensive explication of the Pure Land teaching.

The Summary of the Great Vehicle attempts to systematize Buddhist thought into a unified whole from the standpoint of the Yogacara school.

Shobogenzo: The True Dharma-eye Treasury (Taisho Number 2582) is the masterwork of the thirteenth-century Zen master Eihei Dogen, founder of the Soto sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism. …

Translated by Sencho Murano, this thirteenth-century text by Nichiren extols the Lotus Sutra and critiques the other schools of Japanese Buddhism active at that time.