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MahayanaE — Chinese & Taiwan1968-1971· Series, hundreds of hours

Shurangama Sutra Lectures

Eight-Volume Commentary

Master Hsuan Hua

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Where to find this recording

Audio archives at drba.org and cttbusa.org. Eight-volume English commentary published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

Source: Dharma Realm Buddhist Association

The talk

Master Hsuan Hua's magnum opus: the complete commentary on the Shurangama Sutra, delivered in San Francisco between 1968 and 1971 to his early American students. Eight published volumes in English — the deepest single-sutra commentary by a Chinese Patriarch in modern times. Hsuan Hua opens every chapter, every line, every key term, with the rigor of a Tang-dynasty scholar and the urgency of a master who believed (correctly, in retrospect) that he was the last bridge of a particular lineage into the West.

Why this is foundational

The single most consequential Chan-Mahayana sutra commentary of the 20th century in English. The textual cornerstone of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas lineage.

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