The Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśa belongs to the great mass of literature representing the middle period of Mahāyāna sūtra literature. As such it is quite difficult to date with certainty, as it neither represents any outstanding or special doctrinal viewpoint, nor has been much employed as a canonical source in later scholastic literature. It is however still interesting for, among other things, its standpoints on the teachings and implications of emptiness, and its views on arrogance and judging others for their religious views. It also warns against the purely rhetorical use of Mahāyāna doctrines, such as the teaching on emptiness. The text is also itself a very typical example of what aptly can be called "Mahāyāna Rhetoric". (Source: Bibliotheca Polyglotta)
| Citation | Sarvadharmāpravṛttinirdeśasūtra [आर्यसर्वधर्माप्रवृत्तिनिर्देशनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos thams cad 'byung ba med par bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་འབྱུང་བ་མེད་པར་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra Teaching How All Phenomena are Without Any Origin (84000)]. Translated by Rin chen 'tsho, Kumārajīva, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 180 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=180&typ=1. |
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| Author | Jñānagupta |
