Ākāśagarbhasūtra

आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र

Ākāśagarbhasūtra

འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)

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While the Buddha is dwelling on Khalatika Mountain with his retinue, an amazing display of light appears, brought about by the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha’s liberating activities. As he joins the gathering, Ākāśagarbha manifests another extraordinary display, and the Buddha, praising his inconceivable accomplishments and activities, explains how to invoke his blessings. He sets out the fundamental transgressions of rulers, ministers, śrāvakas, and beginner bodhisattvas, and, after explaining in detail how to conduct the rituals of purification, encourages those who have committed such transgressions to turn to Ākāśagarbha. When people pray to Ākāśagarbha, Ākāśagarbha adapts his manifestations to suit their needs, appearing to them while they are awake, in their dreams, or at the time of their death. In this way, Ākāśagarbha gradually leads them all along the path, helping them to purify their negative deeds, relieve their sufferings, fulfill their wishes, and eventually attain perfect enlightenment. (Source: 84000)

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Ākāśagarbhasūtra [आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र ]. 'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Ratnarakṣita, Buddhayaśas, Dharmamitra, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 260 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=260&typ=1.

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Das Akashagarbha Sutra

Sunim Tenzin Tharchin's translation of the Ākāśagharbasūtra from Korean and Chinese into German.

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The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra: Ākāśagarbhasūtra (Tenzin, Jampa, et al)

An English translation of the Ākāśagarbhasūtra by the Sakya Pandita Translation Group. Published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.

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Das Akashagarbha Sutra

Sunim Tenzin Tharchin's translation of the Ākāśagharbasūtra from Korean and Chinese into German.

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Number	260
Canon	Sūtra
Sanskrit	ārya-ākāśagarbha-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A Bd C Cz D Dd Dk Eg F Gt H He J L Ng Np Pj Pz Q R S Ty U V);nam mkha'i snying po'i mdo (N);'phags pa namkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Z);'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po'i mdo;nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';nam mkha'i snying po'i gzungs;nam mkha'i sxf1;ing po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	āryākāśagarbha nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्याकाशगर्भ नाम महायान सूत्र

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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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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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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Ākāśagarbhasūtra [आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र ]. 'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Ratnarakṣita, Buddhayaśas, Dharmamitra, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 260 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=260&typ=1.

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Ākāśagarbhasūtra [आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र ]. 'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Ratnarakṣita, Buddhayaśas, Dharmamitra, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 260 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=260&typ=1.

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Ākāśagarbhasūtra [आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र ]. 'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Ratnarakṣita, Buddhayaśas, Dharmamitra, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 260 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=260&typ=1.

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Ākāśagarbhasūtra [आर्याकाशगर्भनाममहायानसूत्र ]. 'phags pa nam mkha'i snying po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Ratnarakṣita, Buddhayaśas, Dharmamitra, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 260 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=260&typ=1.

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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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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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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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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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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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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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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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