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गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र

Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra

འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)

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The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra, Toh 148) is an important canonical work centering on the bodhisattva Gaganagañja’s inquiries to the Buddha, his display of seven miracles, and dialogue between various figures about core Mahāyāna principles. The sūtra covers topics such as the bodhisattva path, bodhicitta, concentration, buddha activity, wisdom (jñāna), as well as predictions about the future enlightenment of disciples. Throughout the discourse, the sky (gagana) is used as the central metaphor for emptiness (śūnyatā) and nonduality (advaya) to describe the nature of reality. (Source: 84000)

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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra [गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 148 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=148&typ=1.

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Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2, Edition and Translation." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PllCXdnRPpXWLzF6UxsOHldmcdzqBKG/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 2 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

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Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2, Edition and Translation." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PllCXdnRPpXWLzF6UxsOHldmcdzqBKG/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 2 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

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Han, Jaehee. "The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā and the Sky as a Symbol of Mahāyāna Doctrines and Aspirations." Religions 12, no. 10 (2021): 849. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100849.

Articles2021About this item

The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā is a Mahāyāna dharmaparyāya and is the eighth chapter of the great canonical collection of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the Mahāsaṃnipāta. The text is lost in the original Indic, but survives in Chinese and Tibetan translations, with several passages of the Sanskrit version preserved as quotations in later commentaries. It has been regarded as an authoritative canonical source throughout the intellectual history of Mahāyāna Buddhism, but scant scholarly attention has been paid to this important text. Thus, this paper aims to provide a concise yet comprehensive introduction of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā, including its textual history, its basic structure, and its reception in Indian, Tibetan, and East Asian Buddhist traditions. It also examines how the fundamental concepts of Mahāyāna Buddhism, such as emptiness, endlessness, and imperishability, are signified in the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā by the image of the sky (Skt. gagana), the central metaphor of the text.

Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1, Introduction." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eV_h79rKZEAI9b9TCfS5FqychvR01-Ir/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 1 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an introduction to an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2, Edition and Translation." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PllCXdnRPpXWLzF6UxsOHldmcdzqBKG/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 2 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

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Han, Jaehee. "The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā and the Sky as a Symbol of Mahāyāna Doctrines and Aspirations." Religions 12, no. 10 (2021): 849. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100849.

Articles2021About this item

The Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā is a Mahāyāna dharmaparyāya and is the eighth chapter of the great canonical collection of Mahāyāna Buddhism, the Mahāsaṃnipāta. The text is lost in the original Indic, but survives in Chinese and Tibetan translations, with several passages of the Sanskrit version preserved as quotations in later commentaries. It has been regarded as an authoritative canonical source throughout the intellectual history of Mahāyāna Buddhism, but scant scholarly attention has been paid to this important text. Thus, this paper aims to provide a concise yet comprehensive introduction of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā, including its textual history, its basic structure, and its reception in Indian, Tibetan, and East Asian Buddhist traditions. It also examines how the fundamental concepts of Mahāyāna Buddhism, such as emptiness, endlessness, and imperishability, are signified in the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā by the image of the sky (Skt. gagana), the central metaphor of the text.

Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1, Introduction." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eV_h79rKZEAI9b9TCfS5FqychvR01-Ir/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 1 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an introduction to an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

Han, Jaehee. "The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2, Edition and Translation." PhD diss, University of Oslo, 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PllCXdnRPpXWLzF6UxsOHldmcdzqBKG/view.

Dissertations2020About this item

Vol. 2 of this dissertation by Jaehee Han contains an English translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra.

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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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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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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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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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra [गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 148 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=148&typ=1.

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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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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Dhyāna - A state of deep, one-pointed concentration where the mind is stable, calm, and focused on a single object, serving as a foundation for developing wisdom. Skt ध्यान  Tib བསམ་གཏན་  Ch 禪;禪那;靜慮  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt अद्वय  Tib གཉིས་མེད་  Ch 不二  

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Advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt अद्वय  Tib གཉིས་མེད་  Ch 不二  

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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra [गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 148 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=148&typ=1.

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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra [गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 148 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=148&typ=1.

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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra [गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Gaganagañja (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 148 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=148&typ=1.

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