by Sramanera Chin He

"...For Buddhism, on the other hand, “the reality of reality” lays beyond the comprehension of the rational mind. The Buddha always emphasized transcendence and liberation from delusion, and said that trying to figure out the meanings of concepts such as eternity, infinity, or immortality will not lead to ultimate answers but to the end of life without finding anything definitive. Science, however, keeps on persevering with unremitting doggedness in its search for explanations, each time more precise, of all kind of observations, experiments, and phenomena..."

by David Rounds

"Of the world’s religious masterpieces, the Buddha’s discourse known the Śūraṅgama Sutra is perhaps the least familiar to Western readers. Unlike such discourses as the Lotus Sutra, the Heart Sutra, and the Diamond Sutra, which survive in their original Sanskrit versions, and which have been studied in the West for well over a century, the Śūraṅgama is no longer extant in anIndic original, and the text is preserved only in an eighth-century translation into Chinese. "