sutras in English

noun
1
a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature, or a set of these on a technical subject.
Shukla says that no existing appendix of the Atharva Veda contains the sixteen sutras , and when asked to produce them, Bharati Krishna was unable to.

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1. How often do you recite the sutras?

2. I'm going west to find sutras and cultivate myself.

3. Chanting sutras and trying hard to live a good life didn’t solve my problems.

4. The Baekje king sent the Japanese emperor a picture of the Buddha and some sutras.

5. Historically the Shiva Sutras and the ensuing school of Kashmir Shaivism are a Tantric or Agamic tradition.

6. Ashtanga Yoga, which literally means “eight-limbed yoga” ), is a system outlined in the yoga sutras attributed to the ancient sage Patanjali

7. There are many Bodhisattvas mentioned in the Sutras but the most famous and most commonly represented in art are the Eight Great Bodhisattvas

8. Ashtanga Yoga is defined in the yoga sutras as "yogas-chitta-vritti-nirodaha" -or- the stilling of the mind through practice.

9. The Agamas (Sanskrit, also āgamas) or the five Agamas refer to a collection of discourses (sutras) from early Buddhist schools, which are preserved primarily in Chinese translation.

10. I am not sure which of them, the names of the bones or the sutras of the grammarian, were the more jaw-breaking. I think the latter took the palm.

11. Agama 阿含 (Skt, Pali; Jpn Agon ) Agamas: They are a class of scriptures from the early Buddhist teachings contained in the mahayana Tripitaka that correspond to the suttas (sutras) of the Pali canon

12. The Archaeological Survey of India, which conducted the excavation, opines that "the kind of design that is of spoked wheel and unspoked wheel also remind one of the Sararata-chakra-citi and sapradhi-rata-chakra-citi mentioned in the Satapatha Brahmana and Sulba-sutras".

13. Where did Ashtanga Yoga begin? Whilst the name Ashtanga Yoga originated in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, it was two Indian yoga teachers from the 21st century named Krishnamacharya and Pattabhi Jois who began to develop the Ashtanga Yoga that we know and love today

14. Ahimsa is one of the five yamas, which is the first "limb" of the great sage Patanjali's eightfold path (ashtanga) as described in the Yoga Sutras. Ahimsa is considered to be the most important of the five types of yamas because it represents the right attitude necessary to lead a moral life.

15. Buddhist vegetarianism is the practice of vegetarianism by significant portions of Mahayana Buddhist monks and nuns (as well as laypersons) and some Buddhists of other sects.In Buddhism, the views on vegetarianism vary between different schools of thought.The Mahayana schools generally recommend a vegetarian diet because Gautama Buddha set forth in some of the sutras that his followers must

16. An Asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of pose or position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali define "Asana" as "[a position that] is steady and comfortable"