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Rajgir

Vulture Peak. Where the Mahayana sutras were preached.

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TextsMahayana

The Heart Sutra

The most chanted Mahayana scripture — 260 Chinese characters in Kumarajiva, fewer in the Tibetan, distilling the entire Perfection of Wisdom literature into the single declaration that form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

TextsMahayana

The Lotus Sutra

The most influential Mahayana sutra in East Asia. The teaching of the One Vehicle, the eternal Buddha, and the universal possibility of buddhahood. Composed c. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE.

TraditionsMahayana

Mahayana

The Great Vehicle — the movement that reframed the Buddhist goal from individual liberation as an arahant to the universal awakening of all beings as a bodhisattva, and reframed the metaphysical ground from analysis of dharmas to the emptiness (sunyata) of all phenomena.

FiguresTheravada

Sariputta

Chief disciple of the Buddha, foremost in wisdom, the figure the Buddha called Dhammasenapati — Marshal of the Dhamma. The Anupada Sutta records him entering and emerging from the nine successive meditative attainments, examining the states one moment at a time. He died in his birth village, having returned to teach his mother.

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Rajgir

The Teaching Hills.

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