Sāgaramatiparipṛcchāsūtra/Full text
Heralded by a miraculous flood, the celestial bodhisattva Sāgaramati arrives in Rājagṛha to engage in a Dharma discussion with Buddha Śākyamuni. He discusses an absorption called "The Pristine and Immaculate Seal" and many other subjects relevant to bodhisattvas who are in the process of developing the mind of awakening and practicing the bodhisattva path. The sūtra strongly advises that bodhisattvas not shy away from the afflictive emotions of beings—no matter how unpleasant they may be—and that insight into these emotions is critical for a bodhisattva's compassionate activity. The sūtra deals with the preeminence of wisdom and non-grasping on the path. In the end, as a teaching on how to deal with māras, the sūtra illuminates the many pitfalls possible on the path of the Great Vehicle. (Source: 84000)
| Reference | Sāgaramatiparipṛcchāsūtra [सागरमतिपरिपृच्छासूत्र]. 'phags pa blo gros rgya mtshos zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱ་མཚོས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Sāgaramati (84000)]. Translated by Buddhaprabha, Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa, Weijing, Dharmakṣema, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Narendrayaśas. Kangyur, RKTSK 152 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=152&typ=1. |
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| People | Baoyun, Dharmarakṣa, Dānaśīla |
