By Vicente Fatone
A lucid advent to the center approach with no scholarly technicalities, specifically, argues that Nagarguna is not any nihilist.
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Despite its brevity, the treatise is among the most influential texts in all of East Asian Buddhism. Approximately 170 commentaries were written to explicate its tersely argued contents. The most important of the traditional commentaries was written by Fa-tsang (643–712), patriarch of the Hua-yen school. Other schools, including Shingon, Zen, and Pure Land, hold the text in high regard. See also Shingon sect. , trans. The Awakening of Faith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967. The lowest and harshest region of hell, where the suffering is interminable.
124–157. Benzaiten A river goddess from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, known as Sarashvati in Sanskrit. Benzaiten (often shortened to Benten) is associated with eloquence, learning, and music. She is depicted playing a lute (biwa), or carrying the sword of wisdom and a wish-granting jewel (mani). In Mahayana Buddhism, she is regarded as the female counterpart of Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom. In Japan, she is worshipped as one of the seven lucky gods (shichifukujin), and regarded as a patron deity of the performing arts.
Scholars believe 16 A-yu-wang-shan (J. Aikuô-zan) Mount A-yu-wang, an important religious site for Zen, located in present-day Chekiang, China. A-yuwang is the Chinese name for the Indian Buddhist monarch, Ashoka. E. Believing it to be one of the 84,000 stupas erected by Ashoka centuries earlier, Hui-tah named the mountain for King Ashoka. Centuries later, the mountain became the site of the Zen monastery Kuan-lissu; A-yu-wang-shan became known as one of the Five Mountains (Ch. wushan; J. Gozan temples), the most prestigious Zen monasteries in China.
