Śrīmālādevīsūtra

श्रीमालदेवीसिंहनादसूत्र

Śrīmālādevīsūtra

Śrīmāladevīsiṃhanādasūtra

འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་མོ་དཔལ་ཕྲེང་གི་སེང་གེའི་སྒྲ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa lha mo dpal phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Lion's Roar of Śrīmālādevī (84000)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

One of the more prominent sūtra sources for the Ratnagotravibhāga, this text tells of the story of Śrīmālādevī taking up the Buddhist path at the behest of her royal parents based on a prophecy of the Buddha. It includes mention of important concepts related to the teachings on buddha-nature, such as the single vehicle and the four perfections, or transcendent characteristics, of the dharmakāya. It also mentions the notion that buddha-nature, which is equated with mind's luminous nature, is empty of adventitious stains but not empty of its limitless inseparable qualities. In his commentary on the Ratnagotravibhāga, Asaṅga quotes this sūtra more than any other source text. In particular, it is considered a source for the fifth of the seven vajra topics, enlightenment.

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Śrīmāladevīsiṃhanādasūtra [श्रीमालदेवीसिंहनादसूत्र]. 'phags pa lha mo dpal phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་མོ་དཔལ་ཕྲེང་གི་སེང་གེའི་སྒྲ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Lion's Roar of Śrīmālādevī (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Guṇabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 92 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=92&typ=1.

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Number	92
Canon	Ratnakūṭa
Sanskrit	ārya-śrīmāladevīsiṃhanāda-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa lha mo dpal phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A C D J Z);'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Bd Cz Dd Dk Gt H L Np Pj Pz Q R S Ty U V);lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (F);'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (He);lha mo dpal 'phreng seng ge sgra'i le'u (N);'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba / theg pa chen po'i mdo (T);dpal 'phreng seng ge'i nga ros zhus pa'i mdo;lha mo dpal phreng gis zhus pa;'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra bstan pa'i le'u;'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes;'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhus pa;'phags pa lho mo dpal 'phreng gyi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';'Phags pa lha mo dpal 'phreng gi seng ge'i sgra zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	ārya maladevīsiṃhanāda nāmamahāyānasūtra;ārya śrīmāladevīsiṃhanāda nāma mahāyāna sūtra;ārya śrīmālādevīsiṃhanāda nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्य श्रीमालदेवीसिंहनाद नाम महायान सूत्र;आर्य मलदेवीसिंहनाद नाममहायानसूत्र;आर्य श्रीमालादेवीसिंहनाद नाम महायान सूत्र