The Infinite Journey: The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra) - Part 2

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The Infinite Journey: The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra) - Part 2

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Series: The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra) by Dzongsar Khyentse, 2021 (2 tracks)

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Building on the teachings from Part 1, this question-and-answer session with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche provides an opportunity for practitioners to explore The Stem Array more deeply. Through direct dialogue, Rinpoche addresses questions about the sūtra's teachings, offering additional insights and practical guidance for those inspired by Sudhana's journey of radical openness and spiritual discovery.

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Khyentse, Dzongsar. "The Infinite Journey: The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra) - Part 2." Produced by Siddhartha's Intent Oct 30, 2021. Video, 41:34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPoga8ZXNgQ.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ

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In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000)

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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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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