Sutras Sentence Examples

Such sutras were therefore the recognized form of preserving and communicating opinion.

Shortly after the Buddha's time the Brahmins had their sutras in Sanskrit, already a dead language.

Because the Sutras were probably intended for learning by heart, they are extremely concise and consequently are often hard to fathom.

Of course the whole group also chants the sutras in that special low resonance found only in Tibet.

In solitary confinement for nine years, he practiced Buddhism primarily by practicing sati (mindfulness) and reciting sutras in Pali.

The dialog does not sound stylistically like either the Jesus in various Gospels nor Buddha in various sutras.

In the Vedic sutras, the word aryan is used to refer to those who are spiritually oriented and of noble character.

Accompanying the Tripitaka was a large body of commentarial literature explaining in detail the meaning of particular sutras.

Apart from the books printed with wooden plates, there were many hand-painted and embroidered books or Buddhist sutras woven with silk.

This is the only reference to yoga posture practice in the whole of the yoga sutras.

The basis of ashtanga yoga is the Yoga sutras (Sanskrit Verses) of Patanjali.

Includes sutras, tantras, art of dying and transitions to the other world.

The dialog does not sound stylistically like either the Jesus in various Gospels nor Buddha in various Sutras.

He also studied ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit).

Other sutras found there illustrate various features characteristic of Chinese Buddhism.

Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Patajali was the first individual to transcribe the ancient teachings of yoga for others to follow.

Taoist yoga, sometimes referred to as yin yoga, is a blending of principles from tai chi, Hatha Yoga, the instruction of the Yoga Sutras, and the methods of Tao Yin.

He studied the ancient yogis and developed the text, Raja Yoga Sutras in the second century B.C. as a way to explain the yogis' findings.

The physical demonstration of yoga that most of us are familiar with, the asanas, are but one of a series of eight steps outlined in the Yoga Sutras to join the physical, astral, and casual bodies.

Krishnamacharya studied with Brahmachari for nearly eight years and learned approximately 3,000 asanas and the meaning of the Yoga Sutras.

Patanjali is the author of the Yoga Sutras, the ancient texts of yoga.

There have been many translations of the Yoga Sutras over the centuries.

It is, however, to the Brahmanas and Sutras of the Yajurveda, dealing with the ritual of the real offering-priest, the Adhvaryu, that we have to turn for a connected view of the sacrificial procedure in all its material details.

So great were his learning and piety that he was regarded as an incarnation of Siva, and his works (commentaries on the Vedanta Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads) exercised a permanent influence on Hindu thought.

A highly-educated man (according to the education current at the time), speaking constantly to men of similar education, he followed the literary habit of his day by embodying his doctrines in set phrases (sutras), on which he enlarged, on different occasions, in different ways.

He also studied ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit ).