Pratītyasamutpādasūtra
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)
| Citation | 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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| Author | Surendrabodhi |
