OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000038“Leng Mei Line Drawings of Arhats” is a collection of arhat imagery related to the Qing dynasty court painter Leng Mei, with the title indicating the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign. The entire work presents the appearance, garment folds, postures, and offering scenes of arhats in line-drawing style, possessing value for both Buddhist imagery and Qing court painting research.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000040The Illustrated Compendium of Buddhist Implements is a pictorial resource on Buddhist offering utensils, ritual implements, and ceremonial objects, in upper and lower volumes. Such illustrated compendia help identify the types of objects used in monastery offerings, ritual assemblies, furnishing systems, and Buddhist material culture.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000041The Universal Gate Chapter of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva from the Lotus Sūtra is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Lotus Sūtra and has long circulated independently because of Avalokiteśvara devotion. This item is an image of a 1660 polychrome printed edition, possessing value as a classical text, a source on Avalokiteśvara devotion, and Buddhist woodblock print material.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000042The Xiaoshi Jingang Keyi is a Buddhist ritual text centered on the Diamond Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, attributed to the Song monk Zongjing. Such texts combine the recitation, exposition, repentance rites, and liturgical procedures associated with Prajñā scriptures, reflecting the application of the Diamond Sūtra in repentance and ritual practice.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000045Biographies of Sangha Treasures in the Chan Grove is a collection of biographies of Chan monks compiled by Huihong of the Song dynasty, also including supplementary biographies, preserving in concentrated form the deeds, gong'an cases, and recorded sayings of eminent Chan monks from the Tang and Song periods.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000046Verses and Hymns of the Patriarchs of the Chan School collects gāthās, inscriptions, hymns, and Dharma sayings of Chan patriarchs, and is an important text for studying the tradition of Chan verse literature in the Song and Yuan periods as well as the transmission of Japanese Gozan editions.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000047Imperially Revised Baizhang Monastic Regulations is an important monastic code text of the Chan tradition. The Yuan dynasty revised edition became an important basis for later temple regulations, refectory systems, and monastic communal life.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000049Essential Overview of the Śākya Clan is a Buddhist encyclopedia from the Northern Song dynasty, compiling commonly used Buddhist terminology, institutions, and knowledge of practice and study, with an appended guide to monastic conduct and disciplinary observance for bhikṣus, especially practical for novice monks.
OPENSUTRA_ORG_0000050“Correct Explanation of the Diamond Sutra” is a Qing dynasty annotated edition of the Diamond Sutra, combining value for doctrinal interpretation, introductory scripture reading, and research on late Qing copper movable-type printing.