Sutras

Sutras

• Diamond Sutra
• Faith Mind Sutra
• Heart Sutra

Sutras Links

• T'an Ching (Platform Sutra)
  
• The Five Wonderful Precepts Rephrased by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, and represented in a way that can be understood more easily for the people, especially the young in the West.
  
• Four Great Vows The basic vows of buddhist students.
  
• Five Ranks of Tozan and Other Zen Classics "Five Ranks of the Apparent & the Real" and "The Song of the Jeweled Mirror Samadhi" by Tozan Ryokai. "The Keiso Dokuzi" by Hakuin. "Three Kinds of Fall" and "Five States of Lord & Vassal" by Ts'ao Shan. "The Three Roads" by Tung Shan. "Five States" by Fen Yang.
  
• Sho Sai Shu: Dharani of Removing Disasters In English and Japanese.
  
• Lankavatara Sutra
  
• The Four Great Vows In Japanese and English.
  
• Platform Sutra By the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng.
  
• The Four Great Vows In English and Japanese.
  
• Platform Sutra "There is no Bodhi-tree, nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is empty, where can the dust alight?"
  
• Shushogi "Simply understand that birth and death are in themselves Nirvana, there being no birth-death to be hated nor Nirvana to be desired. Then, for the first time, you will be freed from birth and death. Realize that this problem is of supreme importance...."
  
• Sutras availble to download as ZIP files The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, The Treasure of Law Sutra of the 6th Patriarch, Hui Neng, The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, The Dharmapada
  
• Tao Te Ching The Tao Te Ching, the classic Taoist text, can also be considered a Zen text. The early Ch'an masters cited it as readily as they would discourses of the Buddha. The Tao and the Buddha Way are the same.
  
• Dai Hi En Mon Bu Kai Jin Shu/Dharani of the Great Compassionate One In English and Japanese.