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अवलोकितेश्वरविमोक्ष
Avalokiteśvaravimokṣa
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་མམ་པར་ཐར་པ།
spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gi mam par thar pa
Liberation of Avalokiteśvara
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Description
The Avalokiteśvaravimokṣa is chapter 30 of the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra, in which the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, teaching Sudhana on Mount Potalaka, describes his attainment of the bodhisattva liberation called "the unimpeded gateway to great compassion," through which he frees beings from a wide range of fears—including fear of heights, bondage, danger, hunger, disgrace, death, unfortunate rebirth, separation from loved ones, and bodily and mental torment. This passage is quoted at length by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya (Bendall ed., p. 296) under the title Avalokiteśvaravimokṣa, where it illustrates the dedication of merit toward the protection of all beings. The text is not preserved independently in the Tibetan Kangyur; it survives only as this chapter within the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra (Toh 44–45).
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Avalokiteśvaravimokṣa [अवलोकितेश्वरविमोक्ष]. spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gi mam par thar pa [སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི་མམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Avalokiteśvara]. Kangyur, D44-45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.
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In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000)
One of the longest works in the entire Buddhist canon, the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra is widely considered to be a compilation of independent scriptures, which was expanded upon over the course of time. It was extremely influential in East Asia, where it was preserved in an eighty-scroll recension. The Tibetan translation of this work fills four volumes in the Derge Kangyur. Though only two sections—namely, the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra and the Daśabhūmikasūtra—have survived in Sanskrit, both of which have also circulated as independent works.
