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आर्यनियतानियतगतिमुद्रावतारनाममहायानसूत्र
Niyatāniyatagatimudrāvatārasūtra
The Sūtra on Applying the Seal of Certain and Uncertain Progress (84000)
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In this sūtra, Mañjuśrī asks the Buddha about the factors that make it either certain or not certain that a bodhisattva will attain unsurpassable, perfect awakening. In response, the Buddha describes five ways in which bodhisattvas may or may not make progress on the path. As an analogy for different ways of making progress, he compares five different ways of traveling a very great distance: using a cattle cart, using an elephant chariot, using the moon and sun, using the magical power of the śrāvakas, and using the magical power of the Tathāgata. (Source: 84000)
| Reference | Niyatāniyatagatimudrāvatārasūtra [आर्यनियतानियतगतिमुद्रावतारनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa nges pa dang ma nges par 'gro ba'i phyag rgya la 'jug pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ངེས་པ་དང་མ་ངེས་པར་འགྲོ་བའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on Applying the Seal of Certain and Uncertain Progress (84000)]. Translated by Prajñāvarman, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Gautama Prajñāruci, Yijing. Kangyur, RKTSK 202 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=202&typ=1. |
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| People | Surendrabodhi, Yeshe De, Gautama Prajñāruci |
