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The Brahma’s Net Sutra (Hardcover)
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The Brahma’s Net Sutra (Hardcover)
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The Brahma’s Net Sutra plays an important niche role in the
development of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the primary
extant Vinaya text that articulates the precepts from a Mahayana
perspective. That is, it takes its main audience to be
“bodhisattva practitioners,” mainly householders who remain
engaged with society rather than becoming renunciant monks or nuns.
The Vinayas, and especially the discourse in this sutra, show
monastic and lay Buddhist practitioners engaged at every level of
society, from top to bottom. Buddhist practitioners were involved
in military affairs, political intrigues, matchmaking, and every
other sort of “mundane” social activity. The Vinaya texts
reveal how the Buddhist community in its time judged and dealt with
such matters. The Brahma’s Net Sutra was written in two
fascicles, each radically different in structure, content, theme,
grammar, etc., from the other. The first fascicle discusses the
forty Mahayana stages: the ten departures toward the destination,
the ten nourishing states of mind, the ten adamantine states of
mind, and the ten bodhisattva grounds. The second fascicle explains
the ten grave precepts and the forty-eight minor precepts. These
came to be referred to as the “bodhisattva precepts,” the
“great Brahma’s Net precepts,” the “buddha precepts,” and
so forth. The second fascicle has been especially esteemed,
studied, and circulated separately for more than a millennium as
the scriptural authority for the Mahayana bodhisattva precepts.
[Adapted from the Translators' Introduction.]
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