Ratnacūḍaparipṛcchāsūtra
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रत्नचूडपरिपृच्छासूत्र
Ratnacūḍaparipṛcchāsūtra
འཕགས་པ་གཙུག་ན་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་པ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'phags pa gtsug na rin po ches zhus pa zhes bya pa theg pa chen po'i mdo
The Sūtra of Ratnacūḍa's Questions (84000)
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The Ratnacūḍaparipṛcchā ("The Questions of Ratnacūḍa," Tib. dkon mchog brtsegs pa) is a Mahāyāna sūtra preserved in the Tibetan Kangyur (D 91, dkon brtsegs, cha 210a1–254b7, vol. 44) as part of the Ratnakūṭa collection of sūtras. The text is cited extensively by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya, where it appears under the abbreviated title Ratnacūḍasūtra ("Sūtra on the Jewel at the Crown of the Head"), most prominently in Chapter 13, which is devoted to the four applications of mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna). In that chapter the text is cited in connection with each of the four applications in turn. On the application of mindfulness to the body, it teaches that the body is impermanent and ends in death, and that those who truly understand this become servants of all sentient beings, avoid crookedness and hypocrisy, and give up clinging to possessions; it further teaches that the bodhisattva connects the bodies of all sentient beings to his own, aspiring that all beings attain the body of a Buddha. On the application of mindfulness to feelings, it teaches that bodhisattvas cultivate great compassion for beings caught in pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings, giving up the underlying tendencies to attraction, aversion, and delusion respectively, while experiencing all feelings as impermanent, as suffering, and as without self. On the application of mindfulness to mind, it addresses the impossibility of locating mind internally, externally, in the aggregates, components, or sense-spheres, using the analogy that mind cannot perceive itself just as a sword cannot cut itself. On the application of mindfulness to phenomena (dharma), it teaches that when bodhisattvas look at phenomena they see no phenomena at all—no arising without a cause, and no producer—and that they never give up the recollection of the mind of awakening no matter how deeply they look into the teachings. The abbreviated title Ratnacūḍasūtra used by Śāntideva is confirmed as referring to this text by comparison with the Kangyur recension. The Ratnacūḍaparipṛcchāsūtra is also quoted briefly in the Ratnagotravibhāga without mentioning it by name.
References:
Goodman, Charles. The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 222–229.
Bendall, Cecil, ed. Śikṣāsamuccaya. Bibliotheca Buddhica 1. St. Petersburg, 1897–1902.
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Ratnacūḍaparipṛcchāsūtra [रत्नचूडपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa gtsug na rin po ches zhus pa zhes bya pa theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་གཙུག་ན་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་པ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Ratnacūḍa's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Kamalaśīla, Dharmatāśīla. Kangyur, RKTSK 91 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=91&typ=1.
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