The Ten Grounds Sutra

The Ten Grounds Sutra

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"The Ten Grounds Sutra" is an annotated English Translation by Bhikshu Dharmamitra of Tripitaka Master Kumārajīva’s circa 410 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation of the Daśabhūmika Sūtra. This sutra describes in great detail the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice on the path to buddhahood. This edition includes as an appendix the entire appended P. L. Vaidya Sanskrit text. The Sanskrit section headings are inset in the English translation to facilitate easy correlation of the translation with the Sanskrit original. In addition to the Sanskrit text, this edition also includes a very detailed table of contents, extensive annotation, and a bibliography. (Source: Kalavinka Press)

Citation

Dharmamitra, Bhikshu, trans. The Ten Grounds Sutra (The Daśabhūmika Sūtra): The Ten Highest Levels of Practice on the Bodhisattva's Path to Buddhahood. As translated from the Sanskrit by Tripiṭaka master Kumārajīva. Seattle: Kalavinka Press, 2019.

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http://www.kalavinka.org/kp_book_pages/10GKJ-SA_book_page.htm

Texts Translated

1. Kumārajīva, trans. 十住經 Shí zhù jīng (Daśabhūmikasūtra), T286, 10: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0286.html.

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Daśabhūmikasūtraའཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

Daśabhūmikasūtra. (T. Sa bcu pa'i mdo; C. Shidi jing/Shizhu jing; J. Jūjikyō/Jūjūkyō; K. Sipchi kyǒng/Sipchu kyǒng 十地經. In Sanskrit, "Scripture of the Ten Stages"; the definitive scriptural account of the ten "grounds" or "stages" (daśabhūmi) at the upper reaches of the bodhisattva path (mārga). In the sūtra, each of the ten stages is correlated with seminal doctrines of mainstream Buddhism, as well as with mastery of one of a list of ten perfections (pāramitā) completed in the course of training as a bodhisattva. The sūtra appears as one of the chapters of the Avatamsakasūtra and also circulated as an independent text. (Source: "Daśabhūmikasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 220. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

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• About the Chinese Text6
• About the Sanskrit Text6
• Outlining in This Work6
• Acknowledgements7
• List of Abbreviations8
• Directory to Chapter Subsections11
• The Translator’s Introduction19
• The Translation: The Ten Grounds Sutra27
  • Chapter 1 : The Joyfulness Ground29, 59
  • Chapter 2 : The Stainlessness Ground109
  • Chapter 3 : The Shining Light Ground139
  • Chapter 4 : The Blazing Brilliance Ground173
  • Chapter 5 : The Difficult-to-Conquer Ground197
  • Chapter 6 : The Direct Presence Ground227
  • Chapter 7 : The Far-Reaching Ground265
  • Chapter 8 : The Immovability Ground303
  • Chapter 9 : The Sublime Goodness Ground349
  • Chapter 10: The Dharma Cloud Ground397
• Translation Endnotes483
• Variant Readings from Other Chinese Editions513
• Bibliography525
• Appendix: The P. L. Vaidya Sanskrit Text527
• About the Translator685
• Kalavinka Buddhist Classics: Current Title List687

Daśabhūmika [डशभूमिक]. sa bcu'i le'u [ས་བཅུའི་ལེའུ།]. [Chapter 31: The Ten Grounds (84000)]. Translated by Buddhabhadra, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa, Kumārajīva, Śīladharma, Śikṣānanda. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-31 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-31&typ=1.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Rahder, Johannes, ed. "Daśabhūmikasūtra." (PhD diss., University of Utrecht.) Leuven, Belgium: J. B. Istas, 1926. https://objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index.php?obj=1874-286038&lan=en#page//39/03/15/39031524648488413764695835551980116855.jpg/mode/1up.

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Daśabhūmikasūtra [डशभूमिकसूत्र]. 'phags pa sa bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. Kangyur, RKTSK 857 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=857&typ=1.

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Daśabhūmikasūtra [डशभूमिकसूत्र]. 'phags pa sa bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. Kangyur, RKTSK 857 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=857&typ=1.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན། and ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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