OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000025The Sutra Asked by Bodhisattva Wonderful Arm is a scripture related to Esoteric Buddhism and mantra practice, translated into Chinese in four fascicles by Fatian of the Song dynasty under imperial decree. This item is an image edition from the Jin-printed canon system of Guangsheng Monastery in Zhaocheng.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000027"Treatise on the Eyes by Bodhisattva Nagarjuna" is a Buddhist treatise, medical prescription text, or ophthalmological Buddhist literature transmission attributed to Bodhisattva Nagarjuna. This item is an image of a wood movable-type edition, relatively short in length, and suitable as a cataloging object for Buddhist title literature and movable-type printing forms.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000028The Verses on the Ten Oxherding Pictures uses ten images symbolizing searching for the ox, seeing the tracks, obtaining the ox, herding the ox, forgetting the ox, and so forth to represent the process of Chan cultivation from delusion to enlightenment. It is a highly representative combination of images and verses in Chinese Chan Buddhism.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000029The “Illustrated Scroll of Buddhist Offering Items” is a pictorial resource related to Buddhist offering utensils and categories of offerings, attributed to Katsuragawa Hoshu. The entire scroll presents, through illustrations, the items used for offerings before the Buddha, possessing value as material for the study of Buddhist ritual, material culture, and painting history.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000031The “Illustrated Praises of the Sixteen Arhats” is an imperial mud-gold painted album from the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, consisting of images and praise texts for the sixteen arhat venerables, reflecting court Buddhist painting, arhat devotion, and the tradition of encomiastic inscriptions.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000032“Eulogies on the Eighteen Arhats Paintings” is a compiled work combining arhat images with literati inscriptions and eulogies, attributed to Su Dongpo's hymns and Wang Yanzhou's eulogies, dated 1687.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000034“Five-Script Heart Sutra of Prajñāpāramitā” is a multilingual compiled block-printed edition centered on the “Heart Sutra of Prajñāpāramitā,” carved in the forty-ninth year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty, and marked as held by the Library of Congress.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000035“Manifestation Images of the Great Compassion Dharani” is a collection of visual materials centered on the Great Compassion Dharani and the faith in Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and may be consulted together with the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Great Perfect Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani Sutra.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000036“Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Great Compassion Heart Dharani” is a text related to Avalokitesvara dharani and Esoteric Buddhist ritual practice. This item is attributed to a translation by the Tang Tripitaka master Amoghavajra and is a Ming dynasty manuscript and painted edition in gold pigment, possessing both the value of a scripture-mantra text and of Buddhist calligraphy and painting.