Home > Books & Publications > Books by Title A-Z >

Bodhisattva Precepts
By: Rulu (Translator)

Bodhisattva Precepts, Rulu (Translator)
 
Our Price: $19.95
Author: Rulu
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781467064668
Publication Date: 2012


Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Product Code: 18439
Qty:

Description About the author
 
The spiritual training of a Buddhist comprises the Three Learning: precepts, meditation, and wisdom. Observance of precepts is the foundation of ones spiritual journey to Buddhahood. Classified into three clusters: restraining precepts, precepts for doing good dharmas, and precepts for benefiting sentient beings. Bodhisattva precepts are called the three clusters of pure precepts.

This book, Rulus third, presents seven sutras in English, all translated from texts in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Five of these seven English translations have never before been published in book form. Sutras 1 and 2 cover the ten good karmas; Sutra 3 teaches repentance of sins; Sutra 4 expounds the Mahayana Vinaya; Sutras 57 each contain time-honored Bodhisattva precepts. Sutra 6 is the well-known Brahma Net Sutra; Sutra 7, Sutra of the Upasaka Precepts, also covers the six paramitas in detail. Buddhist terms are explained in the glossary.

The translator's introduction presents sets of Buddhist precepts and describes the arrival of the Hinayana Vinaya in China. It explains the development of the Vinaya School, a Mahayana school originated in China, and summarizes its tenets. It compares voice-hearer precepts with Bodhisattva precepts, and discusses five texts of the latter. It also touches on selecting those Bodhisattva precepts that suit our modern times. Such precepts will be fewer in number but complete in spirit. Buddhist or non-Buddhist, those who seek to benefit themselves and others need to learn and observe such Bodhisattva precepts.

Bodhisattva Precepts, Rulu (Translator), Authorhouse, Paperback, 304 pages, $ 19.95


Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:


Books & Publications > Books by Title A-Z
Books & Publications > Books by Subject > Books on Ethics, Vows, Precepts and Conduct
Books
Books & Publications > Books by Subject
Books & Publications