Lalitavistarasūtra

आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र

Lalitavistarasūtra

འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)

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The Play in Full tells the story of how the Buddha manifested in this world and attained awakening, as perceived from the perspective of the Great Vehicle. The sūtra, which is structured in twenty-seven chapters, first presents the events surrounding the Buddha’s birth, childhood, and adolescence in the royal palace of his father, king of the Śākya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sūtra reveals his complete victory over the demon Māra, his attainment of awakening under the Bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of Dharma, and the formation of the very early saṅgha. (Source: 84000)

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Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&typ=1.

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Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha, Erster Teil: Text

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra edited by Salomon Lefmann, 1902.

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Lalita-Vistara (Vaidya, P. L.)

A critical Sanskrit edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra, edited by P. L. Vaidya. Published by The Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, 1958.

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The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha (Sanskrit)

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra chapters 1 to 15, edited by Rajendralal Mitra.

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Lalita Vistara: Erzälung von dem leben und der lehre des Çâkya Simha

A German translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra from the original Sanskrit and the gâthâdialect, by Salomon Lefmann

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Lalitavistara and the Evolution of Buddha Legend

Lalitavistara once the holy book of Tibetans, deals with the life of Buddha in Mahayana. the difference of life-events of the Teacher between this and other works has been brought forth by the author Dr. Sarla Khosla with great efforts. Out of stray references she has woven the political and social conditions of the era. All the Mahayana aspects of Buddhism found in this work have also been highlighted. In Mara Legend, the author has found the different prevailing religious sects, which has perhaps been done for the first time in the history of Buddhism. (Source: back cover)

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Le Lalita Vistara, Vol. 1

Part one of a complete translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra from Sanskrit and Tibetan into French by Philippe Edouard Foucaux

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Le Lalita Vistara, Vol. 2

Part two of a complete translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra from Sanskrit and Tibetan into French by Philippe Edouard Foucaux; contains notes, variants of the Sanskrit text; and an index.

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Rgya tch'er rol pa (Lalitavistara), ou développement de jeux

This is Philippe Édouard Foucaux's French translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra, published in vol. 2 of Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible.

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The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha (English)

An English translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra chapters 1 to 15 by Rajendralal Mitra.

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The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (Doctor, A.)

An English translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra by the Dharmacakra Translation Committee. Published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.

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The Twelve Deeds of Buddha

A Mongolian version of the Lalitavistarasūtra. Includes the Mongolian text, notes, and an English translation by Nicholas Poppe.

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The Voice of the Buddha

An English translation of the Lalitavistarasūtra by Gwendolyn Bays from Edouard Foucaux's French; corrected with the Tibetan and the Sanskrit original.

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Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha, Erster Teil: Text

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra edited by Salomon Lefmann, 1902.

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Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha, Zweiter Teil: Varienten, Metren und Wörterverzeichnis

Part two of a Sanskrit critical edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra edited by Salomon Lefmann in 1902. Part 2 contains variants, meters, and dictionary. Part 1 contains the Sanskrit text.

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Lalita-Vistara (Vaidya, P. L.)

A critical Sanskrit edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra, edited by P. L. Vaidya. Published by The Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, 1958.

Book

 

The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha (Sanskrit)

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Lalitavistarasūtra chapters 1 to 15, edited by Rajendralal Mitra.

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Number	95
Canon	Sūtra
Sanskrit	ārya-lalitavistara-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A C Cz D Dd Dk F Gt H He J L Np Pj Pz Q R S Ty U V Z);rgya che rol pa (N);'phags pa rgya cher rold pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Ng);'phags pa chen por rold pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';'phags pa rgya che rol pa;'phags pa rgya che rol pa'i mdo;'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba'i mdo;'phags pa rgya chen rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	ārya lalitavistara nāma mahāyāna sūtra;ārya-latitavistara-nāma-mahāyānasūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्य ललितविस्तर नाम महायान सूत्र

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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Bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt बोधि  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་  Ch 菩提; 悟 and 覺  

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Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&typ=1.

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Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&typ=1.

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Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&typ=1.

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Lalitavistarasūtra [आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Play in Full" (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Divākara, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 95 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=95&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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Tridharmacakrapravartana - Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources. Skt त्रिधर्मचक्रप्रवर्तन  Tib ཆོས་འཁོར་རིམ་པ་གསུམ་  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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