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Sutra

noun
(pl. sutras)
1.
A rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization.





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... Chinese origin,—subsequently disguised by Japanese chronology. My Buddhist texts were drawn from Fernand Hu's translation of the Dhammapada, and from Leon Feer's translation from the Thibetan of the "Sutra in Forty-two Articles." An Orientalist who should condescend in a rare leisure-moment to glance at my work might also discover that I had borrowed an idea or two from the ...
— Some Chinese Ghosts • Lafcadio Hearn
... man is infinitely greater in point of merit, than attending to questions about heaven and earth, spirits and demons, such as occupy ordinary men.—Sutra of Forty-two Sections. ...
— The Essence of Buddhism • Various
... Nirwana is more frequent than the one given by the Kalpa Sutra,40 namely, "cessation from action and freedom from desire." But this, like many of the other representations, such, for instance, as the exclusion of succession, very plainly is not a denial of all being, but only of our present modes of experience. The dying Gotama is ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger


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