Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Nagarjuna read the Avatamsaka Sutra and by this was
converted to the Mahayana. This great sutra he brought
back with him to the human world.
If all the sutras of the Great Way were composed
without the grace of the Buddha, why then did
Nagarjuna not establish his own religion as he first
intended?
Not only have the great teachers of the past discovered
the Buddha's Teachings, I myself was asked by a divine
voice during my meditation, "You should repeat the
Sutra of the Dragon-king Buddha." This discourse I had
never seen separately printed and had not taken any care
to study, although I had read the Tripitaka four times. I
took out this sutra and studied it, finding therein many
excellent doctrines and holy instructions. In this work,
the Venerable Sariputra, the first in wisdom among the
disciples and present at the deep teachings of sunyata in
the Heart Sutra, followed the Buddha to his preaching in
the naga palace. Listening, he realized that he had never
heard such an excellent discourse in the human world.
Then he asked the Buddha why he had not preached this
highest truth among human beings. The Buddha then
warned him not to look down upon or dislike the state
of dragons. He said that there were many Bodhisattvas,
bhiksus, and upasakas there who, through the
commission of a little evil, fell into this watery realm.
The nagas being to some extent prepared, the Buddha
was able to leave with them many more doctrines than
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