Caturdharmikasūtra (Tseng, V.)

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IV.12 The Caturdharmikasūtra is very popular in practice and often quoted in Mahāyāna commentaries (see 12,§2 fn.). The whole eighth chapter of the Sikṣāsamuccaya, Pāpaśodhana, is actually organised and expounded in keeping with this sūtra. This might throw some light on the way Śāntideva composed his commentary. The four ways of overcoming the transgressions (pāpa) are also important in Buddhist ethics. (Tseng, introduction to A Unique Collection of Twenty Sūtras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala, vol. 1, xxiv)
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Vinītā, Bhikṣuṇī (Vinita Tseng), trans. and ed. "Caturdharmikasūtra." In A Unique Collection of Twenty Sutras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala. Vol. I,1. Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 7/1. Beijing and Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2010.
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While Buddha Śākyamuni is residing in the Sudharmā assembly hall in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, he explains to the great bodhisattva Maitreya four factors that make it possible to overcome the effects of any negative deeds one has committed. These four are: the action of repentance, which involves feeling remorse; antidotal action, which is to practice virtue as a remedy to non-virtue; the power of restraint, which involves vowing not to repeat a negative act; and the power of support, which means taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, and never forsaking the mind of awakening. The Buddha concludes by recommending that bodhisattvas regularly recite this sūtra and reflect on its meaning as an antidote to any further wrongdoing. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)
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While Buddha Śākyamuni is residing in the Sudharmā assembly hall in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, he explains to the great bodhisattva Maitreya four factors that make it possible to overcome the effects of any negative deeds one has committed. These four are: the action of repentance, which involves feeling remorse; antidotal action, which is to practice virtue as a remedy to non-virtue; the power of restraint, which involves vowing not to repeat a negative act; and the power of support, which means taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, and never forsaking the mind of awakening. The Buddha concludes by recommending that bodhisattvas regularly recite this sūtra and reflect on its meaning as an antidote to any further wrongdoing. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)