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दशधर्मकसूत्र

Daśadharmakasūtra

འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Ten Dharmas (84000)

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While the Buddha is dwelling on Vulture Peak Mountain, the bodhisattva King Precious Moonlight of Pure Virtue asks him what it means to enter the Mahāyāna, and the Buddha responds with a teaching on ten qualities that describe a bodhisattva who has done so. On the topic of the ninth quality, the Buddha teaches on ten events from his life, revealing them to be merely the display of his skill in means and for the purpose of instructing beings. Māra then approaches Vulture Peak Mountain with his army, intending to attack the Buddha, but the bodhisattva King Precious Moonlight of Pure Virtue miraculously instills in him a change of heart. Māra confesses his evil intentions and asks why the Buddha calls him “wicked.” The Buddha explains that he uses harsh speech to discipline Māra, who is like a beloved but unruly only child, just as he always tames beings using the appropriate means. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)

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Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1.

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Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1.

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1.

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Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1.

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Daśadharmakasūtra [दशधर्मकसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos bcu pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Ten Dharmas (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaśānta, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Saṅghabhadra. Kangyur, RKTSK 53 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=53&typ=1.

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