1
: a precept summarizing Vedic teaching
also
: a collection of these precepts
2
: one of the discourses of the Buddha that constitute the basic text of Buddhist scripture
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Delve into the asanas of hatha yoga, the foundations of pranayama breathwork, and the sutras for a deeper understanding of the practice.
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Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
Too bad photography is not permitted inside amid an astonishing collection of Tibetan relics, including the tombs of eight Dalai Lamas and thousands of thangka scrolls, murals, sculptures, and sutras.
—Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
My first was in my own community Feb. 9, 2023
To honor the victims, officials also held a candlelit vigil at Monterey Park City Hall, where surviving family members chanted the sutras — words of the Buddha — to bring peace and harmony and heaven.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
But the scribes who copied the canonical scriptures called sutras during the first centuries of Japanese Buddhism employed a more generic style.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
The sutras themselves were thought to have supernatural powers and were sometimes deployed as protective talismans.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
What the publisher could not have imagined was the license LuYang would take with the sutra 1151 years later, reconstituting it as a video game titled The Great Adventure of Material World.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 8 June 2022
In the end, this ragtag band finally acquires the sutra scrolls from a surprisingly worldly-wise Buddha and achieves a kind of sainthood for themselves.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
The Daizo sutra is a compilation of Buddhist writings consisting of 5,048 scrolls.
—Ryozui Ryosen, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
Too bad photography is not permitted inside amid an astonishing collection of Tibetan relics, including the tombs of eight Dalai Lamas and thousands of thangka scrolls, murals, sculptures, and sutras.
—Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 29 Jan. 2024
My first was in my own community Feb. 9, 2023
To honor the victims, officials also held a candlelit vigil at Monterey Park City Hall, where surviving family members chanted the sutras — words of the Buddha — to bring peace and harmony and heaven.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
But the scribes who copied the canonical scriptures called sutras during the first centuries of Japanese Buddhism employed a more generic style.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
The sutras themselves were thought to have supernatural powers and were sometimes deployed as protective talismans.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
What the publisher could not have imagined was the license LuYang would take with the sutra 1151 years later, reconstituting it as a video game titled The Great Adventure of Material World.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 8 June 2022
In the end, this ragtag band finally acquires the sutra scrolls from a surprisingly worldly-wise Buddha and achieves a kind of sainthood for themselves.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
The Daizo sutra is a compilation of Buddhist writings consisting of 5,048 scrolls.
—Ryozui Ryosen, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
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