Śālistambasūtra

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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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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Documents relatifs au Pratītyasamutpāda: I. Śālistambasūtra

Contains the transliterated Tibetan text of the Śālistambasūtra and a reconstruction of the Sanskrit original on the basis of the numerous fragments.

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Ārya Śālistamba Sūtra (Sastri, N.)

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Śālistambasūtra edited by N. Aiyaswami Sastri. Published by the Adyar Library, Madras, 1950.

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A French translation of the Diamond Sūtra and other Mahāyāna sūtras by Philippe Cornu and Patrick Carré.

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A compilation of fourteen Sanskrit Buddhist texts translated into Italian, including the Bodhicaryāvatāra. Edited by Raniero Gnoli.

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The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas (Damdul 2019)

The initial idea for this study, reflection and meditation manual took seed in 2004, when I first started to translate for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I found many of the Nalanda texts frequently taught by His Holiness to be very useful; it occurred to me that a compilation of these in the English language would greatly benefit many seekers who might otherwise lack the opportunity to access them. It is only now, after many years of sharing the working drafts of this manual at Tibet House in New Delhi, as well as in many other places that the idea has finally come to fruition.

The book is divided into five parts:

I. Daily Recitation and Practice
II. Selected Texts for Study, Reflection and Meditation
III. Additional Prayers, Vows and Commitments
IV. Daily Dedication Prayers
V. Appendix

Part I and Part IV serve as a useful guide for all, who have an inclination towards dharma practice, but do not know how to start and design a daily practice session. It is also useful for those seekers who might be misguided and surmise that dharma practice comprises only of mantra recitation and so forth, thereby missing its essence.

Part II helps strengthen the practitioner’s dharma practice on the basis of selected compositions of great scholars and yogis. The actual breakthrough in the mental transformation happens through changes in the thought process, for which study and reflection are the cornerstones. Any of these profound texts and short extracts may be selected for study, reflection or meditation, on an on-going basis.

Part III reinforces and rejuvenates dharma practice and to that end, may be undertaken on a regular or occasional basis.

Part V introduces the reader to meditation practices, both shamatha (calm abiding) and vipasyana (special insight), including meditation on the breath, as well as methods to cultivate Bodhicitta and the wisdom of emptiness. While there are many texts on the wisdom of emptiness, the meditation included here is designed for all those who are not thoroughly introduced to this subject and still want to familiarise and habituate themselves with the wisdom of emptiness.

Brief notes, Endnotes and Glossary have been added to help the readers unfold the meanings of the texts with ease. (preface, xiv–xv)

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The Rice Seedling Sutra

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explores dependent arising, and the corollary teaching of emptiness, through the Rice Seeding Sūtra (Śālistambasūtra) and others.

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An English translation of the Śālistambasūtra from the Tibetan by the Dharmasāgara Translation Group. Published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.

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This is Gelong Lodrö Sangpo's English translation of the Śālistambasūtra made from the German translation by Erich Frauwallner in his Die Philosophie des Buddhismus.

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An English translation of the Śālistambasūtra by Jeffrey D. Schoening. Includes a translation of Kamalaśīla's Śālistambaṭīkā and the Śālistambakakārikā attributed to Nāgārjuna.

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Volume two of a study and translation of the Śālistambasūtra by Jeffrey D. Schoening. This volume includes the relevant Tibetan texts.

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Documents relatifs au Pratītyasamutpāda: I. Śālistambasūtra

Contains the transliterated Tibetan text of the Śālistambasūtra and a reconstruction of the Sanskrit original on the basis of the numerous fragments.

Article

Ārya Śālistamba Sūtra (Sastri, N.)

A Sanskrit critical edition of the Śālistambasūtra edited by N. Aiyaswami Sastri. Published by the Adyar Library, Madras, 1950.

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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