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    The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa (Devanagari: विमलकीर्तिनिर्देश) (sometimes referred to as the Vimalakīrti Sūtra or Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra) is a Buddhist text...
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    Mahayana Vimalakirti Sutra also spoke of the city of Vaisali as where the lay Licchavi bodhisattva Vimalakirti was residing. The Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra characterizes...
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    śravakas and arhats, as is typical of later Mahāyāna texts like the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra. It also lacks any self-awareness of itself as being part of "Mahāyāna...
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    bewildered by emptiness. Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra Anunatva-Apurnatva-Nirdesa Ātman (Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra Purity in Buddhism Shōmangyō Gisho...
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    Buddhism. Samādhirāja Sūtra (or Candrapradīpa Sūtra), influential in the Madhyamaka scholasticism of Tibet. Vimalakīrti Sūtra – A sutra which depicts the...
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  • Sūtra cites and explains a wide range of Buddhist scriptures: the Diamond Sūtra, the Lotus Sūtra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra), the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa...
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    nāma mahāyānasūtram Sagarnagarajaparipṛccha sutra Triskandhanama Mahayana sutra Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra Akṣayamatinirdeśa Arthaviniścayasūtram...
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    Lotus Sūtra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra), the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra, the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, and the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra. The Chan school had to develop...
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    Marshall, A Guide to Sanchi, 1918 p.46ff (Public Domain text) 12. Vision of the Universe Abhirati and the Tathagata Aksobhya from Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra...
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  • and thus it is "not two". One of these Sanskrit Mahayana sutras, the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra contains a chapter on the "Dharma gate of non-duality" (advaya...
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