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Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The Mahayana ‘Lotus Sutra’, which explains that the Tathagata did not pass on into final nirvana, but is still active teaching the Dharma.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Mahayana Buddhist sutra, said to have been preached by the Buddha in Lanka, first to the serpent king, and then, at the invitation of Rāvana, to an assembly of monks an...
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A collection of stories about Bodhisattvas showing how deeds of previous lives bear fruit in the present.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A collection of 100 Buddhist stories relating the deeds of previous lives to present experience.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Buddhist text that disucsses nirvāṇa, vajragarbhasādhu and bodhisattva sādhu.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Buddhist stories illustrating the workings of karma across lives.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This is from the Mahāvastu which narrates stories from Gautama Buddha’s previous lives.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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A Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from his descent from Tushita until his first sermon at Sarnath.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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The Mahayana ‘Lotus Sutra’, which explains that the Tathagata did not pass on into final nirvana, but is still active teaching the Dharma.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This includes discussion on nirvāṇa.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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Buddhist stories illustrating the workings of karma across lives.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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This contains part of the fourth khaṇḍa of a Mahāyāna Buddhist text on the ‘perfection of wisdom’.