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Old 06-04-2023, 08:36 AM
 
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The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines[/i] is among the most important scriptures underlying both the “vast” and the “profound” approaches to Buddhist thought and practice. Known as the “middle-length” version, being the second longest of the three long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, it fills three volumes of the Kangyur. Like the two other long sūtras, it records the major teaching on the perfection of wisdom given by the Buddha Śākyamuni on Vulture Peak, detailing all aspects of the path to enlightenment while at the same time emphasizing how bodhisattvas must put them into practice without taking them*—or any aspects of enlightenment itself*—as having even the slightest true existence.
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Old 06-06-2023, 02:37 PM
 
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The Book of Protection:

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/...rotection.html
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Old 06-10-2023, 08:28 AM
 
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Verses often called the King of Prayers are vows of bodhisattvas:

https://thubtenchodron.org/2001/06/e...ry-aspiration/
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Old 08-03-2023, 10:17 AM
 
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https://www.namsebangdzo.com/Default.asp

A good source for books, statues etc:
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Old 08-12-2023, 01:31 PM
 
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Rulu's translations of printed & online Mahayana sutras with many notes, glossary etc gives an extensive survey of Mahayana teachings:

https://www.sutrasmantras.info/index.html
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Old 08-12-2023, 03:46 PM
 
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A large, difficult teaching by Arya Asanga on the Bodhisattva Path:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...ent-by-asanga/

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ABOUT THE BODHISATTVA PATH TO UNSURPASSED ENLIGHTENMENT

A complete translation of Asanga’s classic work on the distinguishing qualities of bodhisattvas that describes how to awaken, develop, and perfect the mind of enlightenment in the Great Vehicle, or Mahayana, Buddhist tradition.
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Old 09-01-2023, 01:08 PM
 
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This classic Ratnavali text by Nagarjuna, is the best (to my mind) bodhisattva Dharma available. Here is a free pdf from Kalavinka Press:

http://kalavinka.org/ebooks_NEW/Stra...k_08-19-23.pdf
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Old 09-13-2023, 04:47 PM
 
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https://www.bps.lk/olib/bp/bp106s_Na...A-Nutshell.pdf

Reprinted many times since 1933; above is the 2017 printing of Narada Mahathera's classic Buddhism in A Nutshell.
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Old 09-28-2023, 07:43 PM
 
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A short powerful teaching by Pabongka Rinpoche:

https://www.lamayeshe.com/sites/defa...a_rinpoche.pdf
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Old 09-30-2023, 03:10 PM
 
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A life of Buddha by an English Bhikkhu:

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/...ungpeoples.pdf
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