Pratītyasamutpādasūtra

འཕགས་པ་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ

'phags pa rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra on Dependent Arising (84000)

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While the Buddha is residing in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods with a retinue of deities, great hearers, and bodhisattvas, Avalokiteśvara asks the Buddha how beings can gain merit from building a stūpa. The Buddha responds by stating the Buddhist creed on dependent arising:

All phenomena that arise from causes,
The Tathāgata has taught their cause,
And that which is their cessation,
Thus has proclaimed the Great Renunciant.

The Buddha then explains that this dependent arising is the dharmakāya, and that whoever sees dependent arising sees the Buddha. He concludes the sūtra by saying that one should place these verses inside stūpas to attain the merit of Brahmā. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)

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pratītyasamutpādasūtra. 'phags pa rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra on Dependent Arising (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 212 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=212&typ=1.

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The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas (Damdul 2019)

The initial idea for this study, reflection and meditation manual took seed in 2004, when I first started to translate for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I found many of the Nalanda texts frequently taught by His Holiness to be very useful; it occurred to me that a compilation of these in the English language would greatly benefit many seekers who might otherwise lack the opportunity to access them. It is only now, after many years of sharing the working drafts of this manual at Tibet House in New Delhi, as well as in many other places that the idea has finally come to fruition.

The book is divided into five parts:

I. Daily Recitation and Practice
II. Selected Texts for Study, Reflection and Meditation
III. Additional Prayers, Vows and Commitments
IV. Daily Dedication Prayers
V. Appendix

Part I and Part IV serve as a useful guide for all, who have an inclination towards dharma practice, but do not know how to start and design a daily practice session. It is also useful for those seekers who might be misguided and surmise that dharma practice comprises only of mantra recitation and so forth, thereby missing its essence.

Part II helps strengthen the practitioner’s dharma practice on the basis of selected compositions of great scholars and yogis. The actual breakthrough in the mental transformation happens through changes in the thought process, for which study and reflection are the cornerstones. Any of these profound texts and short extracts may be selected for study, reflection or meditation, on an on-going basis.

Part III reinforces and rejuvenates dharma practice and to that end, may be undertaken on a regular or occasional basis.

Part V introduces the reader to meditation practices, both shamatha (calm abiding) and vipasyana (special insight), including meditation on the breath, as well as methods to cultivate Bodhicitta and the wisdom of emptiness. While there are many texts on the wisdom of emptiness, the meditation included here is designed for all those who are not thoroughly introduced to this subject and still want to familiarise and habituate themselves with the wisdom of emptiness.

Brief notes, Endnotes and Glossary have been added to help the readers unfold the meanings of the texts with ease. (preface, xiv–xv)

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The Sūtra on Dependent Arising: Pratītyasamutpādasūtra

While the Buddha is residing in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods with a retinue of deities, great hearers, and bodhisattvas, Avalokiteśvara asks the Buddha how beings can gain merit from building a stūpa. The Buddha responds by stating the Buddhist creed on dependent arising:

All phenomena that arise from causes,
The Tathāgata has taught their cause,
And that which is their cessation,
Thus has proclaimed the Great Renunciant.

The Buddha then explains that this dependent arising is the dharmakāya, and that whoever sees dependent arising sees the Buddha. He concludes the sūtra by saying that one should place these verses inside stūpas to attain the merit of Brahmā.

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	Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies (rKTs)

Number	212
Canon	Sūtra
Sanskrit	ārya-pratītyasamutpāda-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A C Cz D Dd Dd Dk Gt Gt H L N Np Pj Pj Pj Pz Pz Q R R S Ty U V Z);'phags pa rten cing 'brel par 'byung ba zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (D J Ty Z);rten cing 'brel par 'byung ba'i mdo
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	ārya pratītyasamutpāda nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्य प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद नाम महायान सूत्र