Niṣṭhāgatabhagavajjñānavaipulyasūtraratnānanta/Full text
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आर्यनिष्ठागतभगवज्ज्ञानवैपुल्यसूत्ररत्नानन्तनाममहायानसूत्र
Niṣṭhāgatabhagavajjñānavaipulyasūtraratnānanta
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Precious Discourse on the Blessed One's Extensive Wisdom That Leads to Infinite Certainty" (84000)
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The Buddha’s disciple, the monk Pūrṇa, oversees the construction of a temple dedicated to the Buddha in a distant southern city. When the master builder suggests that the building may be used by others in the Buddha’s absence, Pūrṇa argues that no one but an omniscient buddha may rightly take up residence there. Enumerating the kinds of knowledge that are unique to a buddha’s perfect awakening, Pūrṇa then delivers a lengthy exposition that also relates each of these qualities to the knowledge of the four truths. Following Pūrṇa’s teaching, the master builder invites the Buddha and his followers from afar to the inauguration of the newly built structure. They arrive, flying through the sky. After the inauguration, the Buddha pauses with his monks on the shores of the ocean, where he receives the worship of numerous nāga kings, teaches and inspires them, and predicts their awakening. At Maudgalyāyana’s request, the Buddha then recounts each of the specific events in his past lives that ultimately led to the unfolding of each of his particular kinds of knowledge.
This long sūtra thus serves as a detailed guide to the different aspects of the Buddha’s awakened wisdom, particularly those that, in many accounts of the qualities of buddhahood, are known as the ten powers or strengths. (Source: 84000)
| Reference | Niṣṭhāgatabhagavajjñānavaipulyasūtraratnānantasūtra [आर्यनिष्ठागतभगवज्ज्ञानवैपुल्यसूत्ररत्नानन्तनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa bcom ldan 'das kyi ye shes rgyas pa'i mdo sde rin po che mtha' yas pa mthar phyin pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྒྱས་པའི་མདོ་སྡེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra "The Precious Discourse on the Blessed One's Extensive Wisdom That Leads to Infinite Certainty" (84000)]. Translated by Prajñāvarman, Dpal ye shes snying po, Viśuddhasiṃha, Sarvajñādeva, Ska ba dpal brtsegs. Kangyur, RKTSK 99 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=99&typ=1. |
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| People | Kawa Paltsek, Dpal ye shes snying po, Prajñāvarman |
