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आर्यशालिस्तम्बनाममहायानसूत्र

Śālistambasūtra

འཕགས་པ་སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa sA lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The Rice Seedling" (84000)

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Number: 210
Canon: Sūtra
Sanskrit: ārya-śālistamba-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate titles: 'phags pa sA lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A D J);'phags pa sA lu'i ljang ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (C Cz Dd Dk Gt H L Np Pj Pz Q R S Ty U V);'phags pa sa lus ljang ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (F);sa lu'i ljang pa'i mdo (N);'phags pa sa lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'-i mdo (Ng);'phags pa sA lu ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Z);'phags pa sA lu'i ljangs ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;sA lu'i ljang ba;'phags pa sA lu ljang ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa sa lu ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa sa lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba'i mdo;'phags pa lu ljang ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa su'i ljang ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';'phags pa sa lu ljong pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
Alternate titles — Sanskrit: ārya śālistamba nāma mahāyāna sūtra;ārya śālisambhava nāma mahāyāna sūtra (Csoma de Körös);ārya śālistampa nāma mahāyāna sūtra;ārya-sālistabha-nāma-mahāyānasūtra
Alternate titles — Devanagari: आर्य शालिस्तम्ब नाम महायान सूत्र;आर्य शालिसम्भव नाम महायान सूत्र;आर्य शालिस्तम्प नाम महायान सूत्र

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In this sūtra, at the request of venerable Śāriputra, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya elucidates a very brief teaching on dependent arising that the Buddha had given earlier that day while gazing at a rice seedling. The text discusses outer and inner causation and its conditions, describes in detail the twelvefold cycle by which inner dependent arising gives rise to successive lives, and explains how understanding the very nature of that process can lead to freedom from it. (Source: 84000)

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Śālistambasūtra [आर्यशालिस्तम्बनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa sA lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The Rice Seedling" (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Chih-ch'ien, Dānapāla. Kangyur, RKTSK 210 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=210&typ=1.

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