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Passages similar to: Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra — Chapter 1: The Buddha Land
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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (2)
They had cultivated their minds by means of merits and wisdom, with which they embellished their physical features which were unsurpassable, thus, giving up all earthly adornments. Their towering reputation exceeded the height of Mount Sumeru. Their profound faith (in the uncreate) was unbreakable like a diamond. Their treasures of the Dharma illuminated all lands and rained down nectar. Their speeches were profound and unsurpassed.
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 24 (1)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “If within this universe of universes, the seven treasures were heaped together, forming as many great...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 14 (1)
Upon that occasion, the venerable Subhuti, hearing the text of this scripture proclaimed, and profoundly realising its meaning, was moved to tears....
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 32 (1)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “If a disciple, having immeasurable spheres filled with the seven treasures, bestowed these in the...
Dhammapada
Chapter II: On Earnestness (23)
These wise people, meditative, steady, always possessed of strong powers, attain to Nirvâna, the highest happiness.
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 10 (4)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “Supposing a man with a body as pretentious as Sumeru, prince among mountains, would you esteem such a...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Seventh Day (10.10)
O nobly-born, five-coloured radiances, of the Wisdom of the Simultaneously-Born, which are the purified propensities, vibrating and dazzling like...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 28 (1)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “If an enlightened disciple, in the exercise of charity, bestowed as considerable an amount of the seven...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 14 (2)
“Honoured of the Worlds! having heard this unprecedented Scripture, faith, clear understanding, and firm resolve to observe its precepts, follow as a...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.16)
'Visible to pure celestial eyes' [also] implieth that the devas, being born [pure] in virtue of merit, are visible to the pure celestial eyes of...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.11)
[Those of, and] above, the mystic mantraydnic devotees of ordinary [psychic development], who have meditated upon the visualization and perfection...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Fourteenth Day (18.12)
Meru; the smallest, equal to eighteen bodies such as thine own body, set one upon another. Be not terrified at that; be not awed. If all existing phen...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 14 (3)
The Lord Buddha, assenting, said unto Subhuti: “If, in future ages, disciples destined to hear this Scripture, neither become perturbed by its...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Sixth Day (9.11)
O nobly-born, the size of all these deities is not large, not small, [but] proportionate. [They have] their ornaments, their colours, their sitting...
Bhagavad Gita
Viśhwarūpa Sandarśhana Yoga (11.10)
With many faces and eyes, presenting many wondrous sights, bedecked with many celestial ornaments, armed with many divine uplifted weapons; wearing...