Shurangama Sutra

(in Vorbereitung) Das Shurangama Sutra (Sutra des Heldenhaften )ist ein Mahayana-Sutra ungeklärten Ursprungs, dessen chinesiche Übersetzung erhalten ist. Der Text enthält ca 2700 Abschnitte in 8 Kapiteln und wurde zu einem Haupttext der Zen-Schule. Das Sutra erklärt die verschiedenen Methoden der Leerheitsmeditation, durch die jeder Erleuchtung verwirklichen und ein Bodhisattva werden kann. Zusätzlich enthalten sind mehrere tiefsinnige moralische Erörterungen.
In Kapitel 6 wird das Shurangama-Mantra erwähnt. Jenes beinhaltet 5 Unterteilungen :

1. im Osten Vajra Unterteilung - Buddha Akshobhya
2. im Süden die juwelenerschaffende Unterteilung - Buddha Ratnasambhava
3. in der Mitte die Buddha Unterteilung - Buddha Vairochana
4. im Westen die Lotus Unterteilung - Buddha Amitabha
5. im Norden die Karma-Untertelung - Buddha Amoghasiddhi

Diese 5 Unterteilungen kontrollieren die riesigen Dämonenarmeen der 5 Richtungen. Während der Rezitation des Surangama - Mantras werden die Soldaten der 5 Dämonenarmmeen ihre Köpfe in Unterwerfung senken und es nicht wagen, sich der gewaltigen Kraft des Surangama - Mantras zu widersetzen...

Inhalt der Lu Kuan Yu - Ausgabe

1 -2

• 1.11.1 Wiping out Ananda's discrimination
• 1.12 Revealing the inceptive Bodhi
• 1.12.1 Revealing the unreality of the two realms to expose the non-existence of dharma (things)
• 1.13 Revealing the independent basic Bodhi to expose the unfettered Absoluteness(Bhutatatathata)
• 1.14 Wiping out all traces of the false to enter the abstruse to reveal the Bhutatathata
• 1.15 Direct pointing to One Mind
• 1.16 Fusing the five aggregates
• 1.16.1 The first aggregate: rupa
• 1.16.2 The second aggregate: vedana
• 1.16.3 The third aggregate: sanjna
• 1.16.4 The fourth aggregate: samskara
• 1.16.5 The fifth aggregate: vijnana
• 1.17 Fusing the six entrances
• 1.17.1 Entrance through the eyes
• 1.17.2 Entrance through the ears
• 1.17.3 Entrance through the nose
• 1.17.4 Entrance through the tongue
• 1.17.5 Entrance through the body
• 1.17.6 Entrance through the intellect
• 1.18 Fusing the twelve ayatana (six sense organs and data)
• 1.18.1 Eyes and form
• 1.18.2 Ears and sound
• 1.18.3 Nose and smell
• 1.18.4 Tongue and taste
• 1.18.5 Body and touch
• 1.18.6 Intellect and dharma
• 1.19 Fusing the eighteen fields or realms of the senses
• 1.19.1 The field of sight-perception
• 1.19.2 The field of sound-perception
• 1.19.3 The field of smell-perception
• 1.19.4 The field of taste-perception
• 1.19.5 The field of touch-perception
• 1.19.6 The field of the sixth consciousness
• 1.20 Fusing the seven elements into the absolute to reveal the free intermingling of phenomenon and noumenon

• 1.20.1 Exposing faulty differentiation
• 1.20.2 Pointing to the one source
• 1.20.3 Instruction on the seven elements
• 1.21 Ananda's understanding expressed in his gatha
• 2 The Phenomenon in the Tathagata Store
• 2.1 The One Mind being the source of both delusion and enlightenment
• 2.1.1 A probe into the disciple's understanding of noumen on and phenomenon to reveal the rise of illusions
• 2.1.2 The real missed by cognizance of the false
• 2.1.3 The three finer conditions of unenlightenment (basic ignorance: subject and object)
• 2.1.4 The six coarser conditions of unenlightenment
• 2.2 The law of continuity
• 2.2.1 Continuity of the (physical) universe
• 2.2.2 Continuity of living beings
• 2.2.3 Continuity of karmic retribution
• 2.2.4 The uncreated and unending
• 2.2.5 The unhindered intermingling of noumenon and phenomenon
• 2.2.6 Expounding the common source of delusion and enlightenment to sum up the intermingling of phenomenon and noumenon

3 - 4

• 3 The Tathagata Store containing both noumenon and phenomenon
• 3.1 Meditative study of the Mean (Dhyana)
• 3.1.2 Simultaneous elimination of 'is' and 'is not' to reveal the True Mind
• 3.1.3 The One Mind, sudden awakening and realization
• 4 Self-enlightenment
• 4.1 Objects contemplated in meditative studies
• 4.1.1 Practice of meditation for self-enlightenment
• 4.2 Expedient introduction on the One Mind
• 4.2.1 Main instruction on the three meditative studies of the One Mind
• 4.3 How to untie the six knots
• 4.3.1 Meditation on the six sense data
• 4.3.2 Meditation on the five sense organs
• 4.3.3 Meditation on the six consciousnesses
• 4.3.4 Meditation on the seven elements
• 4.3.5 Meditation on the organ of hearing [Avalokiteshvara's method]
• 4.3.6 Manjushri's gatha teaching the appropriate method for human beings

5 - 6

• 5 The enlightenment of others
• 5.1 Discipline and its three decisive steps: Sila, Dhyana and Prajna
• 5.1.2 Prohibition against killing
• 5.1.3 Prohibition against stealing
• 5.1.4 Prohibition against lying

• 6 Bodhisattva development into Buddhahood
• 6.1 The Tathagata store from which arise both samsara and nirvana
• 6.1.1 Origin of living beings and the world
• 6.1.2 Twelve types of transformation
• 6.1.3 Three gradual steps to wipe out samsara
• 6.1.4 Progressive advance in Bodhisattva development
• 6.1.5 Ten practical stages of Bodhisattva wisdom
• 6.1.6 Ten acts of dedication (Parinaamana)
• 6.1.7 Ten highest stages of Bodhisattva attainment (Dasabhumi)

Literatur

1. Shurangama Sutra Pdf
2. Shurangama-Sutra, Raoul von Muralt, Angkor-Verlag; 2007, ISBN-10: 3936018537
3. shurangama contents

Weblinks

• en Wiki über das Surangama Sutra
• en wiki über das Shurangama Mantra