{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb11_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb11_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb11_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bb/bb11.htm","summary":"This is a philosophical-religious text in the dialogue tradition, drawn from the *Lankavatara Sutra*, a foundational Mahayana Buddhist scripture in which the Bodhisattva Mahamati questions the Buddha. The text expounds a framework of five Dharmas \u2014 appearance, name, discrimination, right-knowledge, and \"Suchness\" \u2014 as a systematic path from ordinary perception to Ultimate Reality, which is characterized as undifferentiated, imageless, and beyond predication. A central argument is that all phenomena, including the self, are mind-made projections sustained by habit-energy and discrimination, and that the ego has no substantial existence \u2014 the \"twofold egolessness\" applying both to persons and to things. The text presents four tiers of knowledge (appearance-knowledge, relative-knowledge, perfect-knowledge, and Transcendental Intelligence), ranking philosophical reasoning below the direct self-realization accessible to Bodhisattvas who have seen through all dualisms. Its most distinctive and self-undermining claim is a performative paradox: even the assertions \"all things are empty\" or \"Noble Wisdom is Ultimate Reality\" are themselves thought-constructions and therefore invalid \u2014 true insight dissolves not only ordinary concepts but its own doctrinal formulations. This makes it essential reading for anyone interested in Yogacara (\"mind-only\") Buddhist philosophy, the logic of ineffability, or the intellectual lineage behind Zen.","tags":["Dwight Goddard","Taoism and Zen","Zen Buddhism"],"text":null,"title":"A Buddhist Bible: The Lankavatara Sutra: Chapter VI. Perf...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":1344}