"100 Buddhist Classics - Vimalakīrti Sutra" is a series of "Selected Vernacular Editions of Chinese Buddhist Classics" hosted by Master Hsing Yun. The full name of "Vimalakirti Sutra" is "Vimalakirti Sutra" or "Vimalakīrti Sutra of Incredible Liberation". It is a Mahayana Buddhist classic widely circulated among Chinese intellectual circles. The "Vimalakīrti Sutra" aims to explain the Mahayana Bodhisattva path, the non-dual method, the reality of the middle path, the incredible realm, and the perfect teachings of the Mahayana. It is also an important scripture that explains the emptiness of prajna. It especially emphasizes the importance of generating bodhicitta and the spirit of the Bodhisattva's self-interest and altruism. This sutra is based on the illness of the layman Vimalakīrti. The story is very interesting, especially the dialogue between Vimalakīrti and Manjushri Bodhisattva, which is full of wit, vividness and exquisiteness, and has great literary value. Hu Shi once praised this book as "half novel and half drama". As a layman, Vimalakīrti revealed the sufferings of the world and preached sermons to save people, breaking the boundaries between monks and laymen in cultivating the path to attainment. The full name of the Vimalakīrti Sutra is the Sutra of Vimalakīrti or the Incredible Liberation Sutra of Vimalakīrti. It is a Mahayana Buddhist classic widely circulated in the Chinese intellectual community. This sutra is based on the illness of the layman Vimalakīrti. The story is very interesting, especially the dialogue between Vimalakīrti and Manjushri Bodhisattva, which is full of wit, vividness and exquisiteness, and has great literary value.
