Bodhisattvagocaropāyaviṣayavikurvitanirdeśasūtra/Full text
The Āryabodhisattvagocara-upāyaviṣaya-vikurvāṇa nirdeśa nāma Mahāyānasūtra or Āryasatyakaparivarta is a medium-Iength early Mahāyāna sutra dealing with Buddha's teachings on both conventional and ultimate truths as weII as integrating these teaching with advice on state policy. Thus, this sūtra is full of the jewels of Buddha's teaching, which can be stored in the treasury of one's own mind. Its archaic language is simple and clear and it is filled with profound meaning, its similes lovely and vivid.
This sūtra discusses all the stages of practice of the path to enlightenment starting with the ten virtuous actions, upward to the universal compassion of bodhisattvas and the Buddha, and explaining the relationship of action and effect from the viewpoints of conventional truth and the inexpressible state of ultimate truth, In short, it demonstrates how to accumulate the store of merit from giving, morality, forbearance, and striving and the store of knowledge from meditation and insight in order to accomplish omniscience for the benefit of sentient beings. (Jamspal, Introduction to "The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra, 'Āryasatyakaparivarta,' Discourse of Truth Teller," PhD diss., Columbia University, 1–2)
| Reference | Bodhisattvagocaropāyaviṣayavikurvāṇanirdeśasūtra [आर्यबोधिसत्त्वगोचरोपायविषयविकुर्वाणनिर्देशनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa byang chub sems dpa'i spyod yul gyi thabs kyi yul la rnam par 'phrul pa bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་གྱི་ཐབས་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་ལ་རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra Teaching the Miracles in the Domain of Skillful Means that the Bodhisattvas Have at their Disposition (84000)]. Translated by Prajñāvarman, Ye shes sde, Guṇabhadra, Bodhiruci. Kangyur, RKTSK 146 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=146&typ=1. |
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| People | Bodhiruci, Guṇabhadra, Yeshe De |
