Friday, August 29, 2014

Sugata


Subhuti addresses the Buddha here as Sugata, which is among the titles of every buddha. Sugata means "well-gone" and recalls the concluding mantra of the Heart Sutra: gate, gate, paragate, parasangate (gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond.).

---Red Pine, in his commentary on The Diamond Sutra---

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