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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

 



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