I've been reading the Golden Light Sutra
Have you ever heard of it?
I encountered it at the Relic tour when I visited Grass Valley.
And reading it I found it up lifting so I wanted to know more about it.
The
Sugatagarbha Translation Group is translating the whole sutra into english:
Most current translation show the 21 chapters I believe.
Isn't this an awesome picture for the 'Preamble' or Chapter 1?
It makes the text come alive!
Thus have I
heard: At one time, the Bhagavan, the Transcendent and Accomplished
Conqueror, was in Rajagriha on the summit of Vulture’s Peak Mountain, in
the profound basic space of phenomena, entirely and utterly pure, the
sublime experiential dimension of the Tathāgatas, the Ones Gone to Suchness.
An immense sangha of fully-ordained monks, ninety-eight thousand in number, were all abiding together in the same company. All of them without exception were great arhats, and like a king of elephants, extremely subdued. They had exhausted their defilements, were without afflictive mental states, and their minds were absolutely and thoroughly liberated. Their discerning wisdom had been absolutely and thoroughly released. They had done what had to be done, laid down their burden, and accomplished well their own welfare. They had comprehensively cut the connections with conditioned existence. They had attained the supreme amongst sacred sovereignties, dwelt solely in completely pure ethical conduct, were perfectly abiding in skillful method and sublime wisdom, had actualized the Eight Emancipations, and had come to the end of the far shore alone.
The Exalted Sovereign King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light: A Mahāyāna Scripture
(from the Sugatagarbha T. group site: http://www.sutraofgoldenlight.com/2011/01/larger-sutra-of-golden-light-29-chapter.html )
The Exalted Sovereign King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light: A Mahāyāna Scripture
(from the Sugatagarbha T. group site: http://www.sutraofgoldenlight.com/2011/01/larger-sutra-of-golden-light-29-chapter.html )
ADORATION TO ALL THE PAST, FUTURE, AND PRESENT BUDDHAS, BODHISATTVAS, PRATYEKABUDDHAS, AND ĀRYA SHRAVAKAS!
An immense sangha of fully-ordained monks, ninety-eight thousand in number, were all abiding together in the same company. All of them without exception were great arhats, and like a king of elephants, extremely subdued. They had exhausted their defilements, were without afflictive mental states, and their minds were absolutely and thoroughly liberated. Their discerning wisdom had been absolutely and thoroughly released. They had done what had to be done, laid down their burden, and accomplished well their own welfare. They had comprehensively cut the connections with conditioned existence. They had attained the supreme amongst sacred sovereignties, dwelt solely in completely pure ethical conduct, were perfectly abiding in skillful method and sublime wisdom, had actualized the Eight Emancipations, and had come to the end of the far shore alone.
