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- noun Plural form of
sutra .
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Examples
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The shravaka sutras explain that Shakyamuni was born as an ordinary being, Prince Siddhartha, and that he developed his good qualities during his lifetime to become a Buddha.
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha 2000
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These three interpretations derive from a difference in the description of Shakyamuni Buddha found in the shravaka sutras, the bodhisattva sutras, and the highest tantras.
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha 2000
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The shravaka sutras, often called the Hinayana (modest vehicle) sutras, include the Pali canon of the Theravada tradition and the Sanskrit canons of seventeen other early Indian Buddhist schools.
Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 11 Seeing a Mentor as a Buddha 2000
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Specially characteristic of Mahayanist Buddhism are the Vaipulya [120] sutras, that is sutras of great extension or development.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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(drawing and painting images of Buddha), learning how to write 'sutras' (Buddhist text) and meditation methods.
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Onstage, he's with a child monk and they're putting models of the human-sized wooden boxes into formations that suggest sutras that the adult monks, with their lifesize boxes, will be shown to be embodying in their lives.
Jillian Burt: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra Jillian Burt 2010
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Collections of sutras have no plot or narrative, but Sutra's sutra illustrates Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's story of spending several months with the Shaolin monks in their monastery near Dengfeng City in China's Henan Province, founded in 495 AD.
Jillian Burt: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra Jillian Burt 2010
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They're as interested in hip-hop and contemporary culture as they are in the Buddhist sutras.
Jillian Burt: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra Jillian Burt 2010
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When a member of the temple is dying, Benkong pays a visit and chants sutras to help them move from one life to the next, a transition known as the Bardo state, which lasts for forty-nine days.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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When a member of the temple is dying, Benkong pays a visit and chants sutras to help them move from one life to the next, a transition known as the Bardo state, which lasts for forty-nine days.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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