Sentence examples for the sutras from inspiring English sources
noun
A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
Yoga, the sutras say, "is the restriction of the fluctuations of consciousness".
The sutras are divided into five chapters, each with two sections.
The most important of these texts are the sutras of Gautama, Baudhayana, and Apastamba.
"In the sutras that the Buddha taught, the agama sutras, there is the message for the acquisition of wisdom".
Typically, they spend only a few weeks shut away studying the sutras before they rush back to the city.
Prashastapada's Vaisheshika commentary (c. 5th century) does not closely follow the sutras but is rather an independent explanation.
The sutra literature began before the rise of Buddhism, though the philosophical sutras all seem to have been composed afterward.
Another popular name of the sutra, the Aparimitayus-sutra ("Sutra of Infinite Life"), reflects its association with Amitabha, whose byname, Amitayus, means "Buddha of Infinite Life".
The sutra was rediscovered in 1900, in a cave in Dunhuang, China.
When the sutra had travelled the length of the chain, he would be waiting at the end.
The Words in the Sutra profess distinctly that you should 'take Refuge under Buddha intrinsically (Cheng, Chapter 6).
