The Hwa Yen school of Mah?y?na Buddhism bloomed in China in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Today many scholars regard its doctrines of Emptiness, Totality, and Mind-Only as the crown of Buddhist thought and as a useful and unique philosophical system and explanation of man, world, and life as intuit[...]
Tibetans accord "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa " a classic status comparable to that of the "Mahabharata" and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided[...]