The Flower Adornment Sutra - Volume Two: An Annotated Translation of the Avataṃsaka Sutra with "A Commentarial Synopsis of the Flower Adornment Sutra"

by Bhikshu Dharmamitra (Translator), Tripitaka Master Śikṣānanda (Translator)

Overview

The Flower Adornment Sutra is Bhikshu Dharmamitra's extensively annotated 3-volume original translation of the Maḥāvaipulya Buddha Avataṃsaka Sūtra or "The Great Expansive Buddha's Flower Adornment Sutra" rendered from Tripitaka Master Śikṣānanda's circa 699 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese 80-fascicle translation as the "Da Fangguang Fo Huayan Jing" (大方廣佛華嚴經 / Taisho Vol. 10, no. 279). It consists of 39 chapters that introduce an interpenetrating, infinitely expansive, and majestically grand multiverse of countless buddha worlds while explaining in great detail the cultivation of the bodhisattva path to buddhahood, most notably the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice known as "the ten bodhisattva grounds." To date, this is the first and only complete English translation of the Avataṃsaka Sutra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935413363
Publisher:	Kalavinka Press
Publication date:	10/01/2022
Series:	Kalavinka Buddhist Classics , #15
Pages:	780
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.72(d)

About the Author

Bhikshu Dharmamitra (ordination name "Heng Shou" - 釋恆授) is a Chinese-tradition translator monk and one of the earliest American disciples (since 1968) of the late Guiyang Ch'an patriarch, Dharma teacher, and pioneer of Buddhism in the West, the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (宣化上人). He has a total of 38 years in robes during two periods as a monastic (1969‒1975 & 1991 to the present).

Tripitaka Master Śikṣānanda (652-710 ce) was a major translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese during the Tang Dynasty. This monk from Khotan is most remembered for his 699 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation of this 80-fascicle edition of the Avataṃsaka Sutra.