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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Buddhist Latour Litanies

Graham Harman mentions them in a recent post. Here's one I just used in a citation, from the Sutra Entry into the Realm of Reality. There are about three of these on every page of what in English is a 300 page book:

He also saw as many multitudes of projected bodies as atoms in all lands emanate from each pore of the goddess and stand before all sentient beings praising the vow of practice of universally good enlightening beings, praising the excellence of the vow to ultimately purify all universes, praising purification of all worlds in each moment of thought, praising persistence in entering the powers of buddhas in each moment of thought, showing ceaseless entry into the ocean of principles of the cosmos—equal to the number of atomic particles in all oceans of worlds—in every single moment of thought ...

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