This Sutra, spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha discusses Medicine Master Buddha (Akshobhya) and his vows. The Buddha, whose Lapis Lazuli Land is located to the east of our world, is the leader of the Vajra division.

This Medicine Master Buddha Dharma is an important Dharma Door for our era of "East meets West" and "global village".Western faiths, such as Catholicism or Islam, focus on "life after death" or the future life. They advocate seeking rebirth to the heavens to draw near the Creator. Their approach is similar in nature to the Pure Land school of Buddhism.In contrast, Eastern faiths like Confucianism or Taoism tend to put emphasis on the current life, advocating the observance of strict codes of ethics and morality.

This insightful three-volume set examines faith through the social and cultural perspective of anthropology, sociology, and religious studies, shedding light on the role of religion in the human experience. Why is human suffering and the existence of evil part of the human experience? How does religious doctrine establish one's identity? In what ways does religion interact with and shape the social order? This thought-provoking work ponders these questions and explores the concept of religion from various perspectives: as a tool for self and community-based spiritual awareness, as a set of practices that translates faith into interaction with others, and as a cornerstone of society for those who seek to harness—or hinder—its influence. Written in accessible and inviting language, each volume focuses on a particular dimension of religion. The first book examines religious experience in the modern world and explores suffering in religious faiths, the second volume centers around ritual and pilgrimage, and the last book analyzes the controversial relationship between religion and societies. The content features such thought-provoking topics as death and green burials, sexuality and sex trade, and how and why evil manifests in the human experience.

Si Su was a teenage at her rebellious period, quitted from her school, just whiled away her time with a bunch of bad boys whom her father thought, lived only with her father as she was told her mother had already passed away. Her father as a taxi driver in Shanghai could not do anything about her, in one day he told her that he was not her biological father, her parents were ThousandsSeas and HundredsRivers as she was picked up in a park with a letter her mother left in the swaddling cloth. She went to South of Guizhou to find her biological father, came across her teacher as she called. He took her to work in fields and walk through primeval forest, made her decide to go back to school and study in Finland as her teacher set up a date with her in November 22th two years later in a room with glass roof in Rovaniemi. In the process she marveled at many wonders in Guizhou and Finland. Then who was her father? Who were ThousandsSeas and HundredsRivers? What happened to them? What happened to her teacher? Was she able to find her mother and her love in the end? ...

The title Lankavatara might mean entering Lanka (Perhaps referring to the temporary Mahayana period of Ceylon), suggesting that the doctrine of this scripture are possibly consistent with earlier Buddhism preserved in the Pali language. Suzuki has greatly helped the reader of the basic scripture by discussing the main ideas. He tells how to study this scripture, compares it with the popular Zen Buddhism discusses such typical and important doctrines as Mind-only the Triple body of the Buddha and many minor topics. Suzuki is both an exacting scholar and an understanding exponent of these difficult concepts. He adds a Sanskrit-Chinese-English Glossary, and also an Index. This work is essential for grasping the main ideas of the scripture.