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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (52)
Thereupon, Brahma with a tuft of hair on his head (resembling a conch) said to Sariputra: “Don’t think this Buddha land is impure. Why? Because I see that the land of Sakyamuni Buddha is pure and clean, like a heavenly palace.”
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 1 (4)
As it approached the hour for the morning meal, Lord Buddha, Honoured of the Worlds, attired himself in a mendicant’s robe, and bearing an alms-bowl...
Dhammapada
Chapter XVIII: Impurity (254)
There is no path through the air, a man is not a Samana by outward acts. The world delights in vanity, the Tathâgatas (the Buddhas) are free from...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 18 (6)
The Lord Buddha enquired of Subhuti, saying: “What think you? Concerning the sands of the Ganges, did the Lord Buddha declare that these were grains...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput VI (6)
Now the sealing with the sign of the Cross, as we have already said, denotes the inaction of almost all the desires of the flesh. And the cropping of ...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The All-Determining Influence of Thought (26.8)
Such [thought] will not only be of no use to thee, but will do thee great harm. However incorrect the ritual and improper the conduct of the priests...
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (58-59)
As on a heap of rubbish cast upon the highway the lily will grow full of sweet perfume and delight, thus the disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha...
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...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 9 (1)
The Lord Buddha enquired of Subhuti, saying: “What think you? May a Scrotapatti (having entered the stream which bears on to Nirvana) thus moralise...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Alternative Choosing: Supernormal Birth; or Womb-Birth (38.4)
There are two alternatives; the transference [of the consciousness-principle] to a pure Buddha realm, and the selection of the impure sangsaric...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.29)
Thine own intellect, which is now voidness, yet not to be regarded as of the voidness of nothingness, but as being the intellect itself,...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 18 (7)
The Lord Buddha enquired of Subhuti, saying: “What think you? If there were as many rivers Ganges as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, and if...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XV: The Greek Philosophy in Great Part Derived From the Barbarians. (13)
Some, too, of the Indians obey the precepts of Buddha; whom, on account of his extraordinary sanctity, they have raised to divine honours.
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 10 (2)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “What think you? may an enlightened disciple thus ponder within himself, ‘I shall create numerous Buddhist...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 11 (1)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “If there were rivers Ganges as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, would the aggregate grains of sand be...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXV: The Bhikshu (Mendicant) (381)
The Bhikshu, full of delight, who is calm in the doctrine of Buddha will reach the quiet place (Nirvâna), cessation of natural desires, and happiness.
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIII: The Elephant (323)
For with these animals does no man reach the untrodden country (Nirvâna), where a tamed man goes on a tamed animal, viz. on his own well-tamed self.
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga (5.24)
He who finds happiness within, delights within, and illumined within, that sage becoming Brahman attains absolute perfection.
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 9 (3)
The Lord Buddha once again enquired of Subhuti, saying: “What think you? May an Anagami (having entire immunity from reincarnation) thus reflect...
Diamond Sutra
Chapter 20 (1)
The Lord Buddha addressed Subhuti, saying: “What think you? Can the Lord Buddha be perceived by means of his perfect material body?” Subhuti replied,...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXIX (4)
Thou art pure, thou art pure, thy forepart is purified, thy hindpart is cleansed with bet and natron, and cooled with incense
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