This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. SAUNDARA-NANDA: 'Handsome Nanda' by the Great Teacher Aśvaghoṣa

Invocation: oṁ namo buddhāya Canto 1: A Portrait of Kapilavāstu text and translation English only (original 4-line verse format) Canto 2: A Portrait of the King text and translation English only Canto 3: A Portrait of the Tathāgata text and translation English only Canto 4: What He Begged His Wife For text and translation English only Canto 5: Nanda Is Caused to Go Forth text and translation English only

Canto 6 A Wife's Lament

Canto 7 Nanda's Lament

Canto 8 A Tirade against Women

Canto 9 Negation of Vanity

Canto 10 A Vision of Heaven

Canto 11 Negation of Heaven

Canto 12 Gaining a Foothold

Canto 13 Defeating the Power of the Senses through the Discipline of Integrity

Canto 14 Stepping Into Action

Canto 15 Abandoning Ideas

Canto 16 Exposition of the Noble Truths

Canto 17 Obtaining the Deathless Nectar

Canto 18 Affirmation of Full Autonomy

For verse by verse commentary on Saundarananda, visit my blog "Mining Ashvaghosha's Gold."

BUDDHACARITA
	BUDDHACARITA:  'The Buddha's Career' by the Great Teacher Aśvaghoṣa

Canto 5: Going Forth
	5.8-11 The first buds of sitting/realisation, under the Jambu tree

Canto 12: Visit to Arada
	12.100 - 12.107 Dropping off ascetic practice

12.120
	12.120 Sleeping-serpent spirals

Canto 13: Defeat of Mara
	13.1 The seer vows; Mara trembles

13.60
	13.60 Constancy of effort

13.65
	13.65 A tree of knowing

13.66
	13.66-69 Inhibiting the Mara reflex

13.30
	13.30-33 Like a lion, sitting

Canto 26: The Great Extinction of the Flame
	26.42 - 26.76 The Buddha's Final Teaching -- Johnston's translation from the Tibetan

SHOBOGENZO
	SHOBOGENZO: 'A True-Dharma-Eye Treasury' by Zen Master Dogen

Chapter 2
	MAKA-HANNYA-HARAMITSU The Great Wisdom of One Gone to the Far Shore

Chapter 3
	GENJO-KOAN The Real Law of the Universe

Chapter 10
	SHOAKU-MAKUSA Not Doing Any Evil

Chapter 11
	UJI Time, as Existence

Chapter 28
	BUTSU-KOJO-JI The Matter of Buddha Going On Up

Chapter 58
	ZAZENGI Rules of Sitting-Zen

Chapter 72
	ZANMAI-O-ZANMAI The Samadhi That Is King of Samadhis

Chapter 77
	KOKU Space

Chapter 87
	KUYO-SHOBUTSU Serving Buddhas

Chapter 95
	HACHI-DAININ-GAKU The Eightfold Awakening of a Great Human Being