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The Growth of a Mahayana Sutra
Part of the series Transformation of Life and World in the Sutra of Golden Light
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  • 1 Introduction: transforming self and world 09:12
  • 2 What is the Mahayana? 16:54
  • 3 What is a sutra? 08:06
  • 4 Various forms of oral transmission 04:37
  • 5 The Hinayana and the Mahayana sutras 11:12
  • 6 Two great groups of Mahayana sutras 02:44
  • 7 The growth of a Mahayana sutra 09:01
  • 8 The Sutra of Golden Light 11:36
  • 9 Spiritual Unity 04:05

Talk Details

Sangharakshita introduces the universal perspectives and historical precedents which form the basis of the sutra, and offers a brief résumé of its contents.

Talk given in 1976.