OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000051“Responsive Manifestation Deeds of Tathagata Shakyamuni” narrates the life of Shakyamuni and Buddhist biographical stories through sequential illustrations and text, and is an important text in Buddhist imagery and popular storytelling traditions.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000052The “Precious Scroll of Xiangshan,” also known as the “Scripture of the Original Deeds of Bodhisattva Guanshiyin,” is a precious scroll text related to Guanyin devotion, possessing value both as performative literature and for the dissemination of Buddhist stories.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000053The “Yogacara Yankou Ritual Manual” belongs to the esoteric Buddhist yankou ritual system of Chinese Buddhism, associated with traditions of food offering, memorial rites for the deceased, deliverance rites, and yankou ceremonies in monasteries.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000054"Zuting Shiyuan" is a lexicographical Chan Buddhist text from the Northern Song dynasty, containing a large number of Chan terminology, allusions, and expressions, and is highly useful for the study of Chan Buddhist philology and monastic language.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000055"Finely Executed Great Compassion Dharani Buddha Images" is a Qing dynasty colored Buddhist pictorial work centered on the Great Compassion Dharani, Guanyin devotion, and Buddhist imagery, possessing value for worship, recitation, and image studies.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000056"Auspicious Hevajra Assembly Wheel Nectar Spring" belongs to the Hevajra textual tradition of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism; this gold-ink illustrated manuscript from the fourth year of the Zhengtong era of the Ming dynasty possesses value as an esoteric ritual text, manuscript artifact, and work of Buddhist art.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000057The “Praise to the Twenty-One Saviouress Mothers” is a liturgical text related to the cult of Tara. The Qing manuscript copied by Yongrong preserves the form in which praises to the Saviouress Mother circulated within the Chinese-language environment of Tibetan Buddhism during the Qing dynasty.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000060The edition of the “Blue Cliff Record” printed by Ruilong Chan Monastery belongs to the Japanese Gozan edition system and is an important version for observing the eastward transmission, reprinting, and monastic publication of Chan koan texts.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000062The Vajra Wisdom Sutra on True Chan Inner Seal, Sudden Realization, Void Quiescence, and the Dharma Realm is a concertina-format manuscript from the third year of the Xuande reign of the Ming dynasty, calligraphed by Shen Du and illustrated by Shang Xi, possessing research value in Buddhist sutra copying, court painting, and Ming dynasty bookbinding.