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अङ्गुलिमालीयसूत्र
Aṅgulimālīyasūtra
The Sūtra for the Benefit of Aṅgulimāla (84000)
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The Mahāyāna version of this sūtra, like the earlier Pali sutta of the same name, recounts a sorted tale of jealousy and revenge that spirals out of control, in which a once promising disciple is set on the path to become a vicious murderer in search of a thousand victims in order to create a garland strung with their severed fingers. That is, of course, until he encounters the final victim needed to complete his task, the Buddha. (You can read the story here). The Mahāyāna version is routinely included among the lists of so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras, the reason likely being the extensive discussion the protagonist has with Mañjuśrī on the proper view of emptiness. The position presented in the text has been taken by some to be an early precursor to the view of other-emptiness.
| Reference | Aṅgulimālīyasūtra [अङ्गुलिमालीयसूत्र]. 'phags pa sor mo'i phreng ba la phan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལ་ཕན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra for the Benefit of Aṅgulimāla (84000)]. Translated by Śākyaprabha, Dharmatāśīla, Tong Ācārya, Guṇabhadra, Dharmarakṣa, Faju. Kangyur, RKTSK 213 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=213&typ=1. |
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| People | Dharmarakṣa, Dharmatāśīla, Faju |
