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Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures of which the Mahayana Buddhist tradition claim that they are original teachings of the Buddha. The Theravada and the other Early Buddhist Schools claim that the Mahayana Sutras are later compositions, not taught by the Buddha. Various Mahayana Sutras have been included in the Tibetan Canon and the Chinese Canon. Although similar, these... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Mahayana Many “philosophical” schools and Mahayana Sutras have focused on the nature of enlightenment and nirvana itself, from the Madhyamika and its rival Yogacara, to the Tathagatagarbha teachings and Zen.

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Mahayana Many “philosophical” schools and Mahayana Sutras have focused on the nature of enlightenment and nirvana itself, from the Madhyamika and its rival Yogacara, to the Tathagatagarbha teachings and Zen.

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Mahayana Many “philosophical” schools and Mahayana Sutras have focused on the nature of enlightenment and nirvana itself, from the Madhyamika and its rival Yogacara, to the Tathagatagarbha teachings and Zen.

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Mahayana sutras Mahayana Buddhists believe the Mahayana Sutras present the more profound teachings of the Buddha and the path he revealed (Buddhadharma).

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    Mahayana sutras

    Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures of which the Mahayana Buddhist tradition claim that they are original teachings of the Buddha.
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    Mahayana

    Some of the main Mahayana Sutras, codified in Sanskrit, have not survived over time and have been lost.
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    Buddhism

    Mahayana schools recognize all or part of the Mahayana Sutras.
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    Buddhism Article, 4 Sept. 2008

    For Theravadins and many scholars, including A.K. Warder, however, the self-proclaimed "greatness" of the Mahayana Sutras does not make them a true account of the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha.
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    Category:Mahayana sutras

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    Buddhist vegetarianism

    Some Buddhists do strongly oppose meat-eating on the basis of emphatic scriptural injunctions against flesh-eating in Mahayana sutras.
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    Hinayana

    We can find Mahayana Sutras and traditions which repeatedly admonish the trainee Bodhisattva not to criticise any of the Buddhist schools.
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    Nirvana Sutra

    The Nirvana Sutra, or Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra (Chinese: Niepan Jing (涅槃經); Japanese: Nehankyō (涅槃経); Tibetan: myang 'das kyi mdo).), is one of the major Mahayana Sutras of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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