Sarvavaidalyasaṃgrahasūtra/Full text
The Sarvavaidalyasaṃgrahasūtra ("Sūtra Gathering All Fragments") is a Mahāyāna sūtra preserved in the Tibetan Kangyur (Tib. 'Phags pa rnam par 'thag pa thams cad bsdus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo), translated from Sanskrit by the Indian paṇḍitas Jinamitra and Munivarman together with the Tibetan lotsāwa Yeshé Dé. The sūtra is set at Vulture Peak near Rājagṛha at the time of the Buddha's approaching parinirvāṇa, with Maitreya (Ajita) and Mañjuśrī as the principal interlocutors. Its central concern is the rejection of the holy Dharma (dharmapratikṣepa) — the text provides an extensive enumeration of the many ways in which practitioners, teachers, and communities fall into the fault of rejecting the Dharma, whether by dividing the Buddha's teaching into separate vehicles, criticizing Dharma teachers, or claiming that certain teachings are not relevant to certain practitioners. The text also addresses those who claim that awakening can be achieved by the single method of emptiness alone, to which the Buddha responds by affirming the necessity of all six perfections, pointing to Maitreya's own practice of each perfection over sixty eons. The sūtra is cited by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya, where it is quoted in the context of harmful conduct to be avoided; comparison of the Kangyur text with the passages quoted in the Śikṣāsamuccaya confirms that the content of the Sarvavaidalyasaṃgrahasūtra matches the passages Śāntideva cites under this title. Goodman's translation of the Śikṣāsamuccaya renders the title as Sarvadharmavaipulyasaṃgrahasūtra ("Sūtra That Is a Compendium on the Spaciousness of Everything"), following the Sanskrit manuscript of the Śikṣāsamuccaya used by Bendall, which appears to read vaipulya where the actual Kangyur text and the Tibetan translation both confirm vaidalya. Goodman himself flags the Tibetan rendering rnam par 'thag pa as problematic given the Sanskrit, indicating a scribal variant or misreading—vaidalya and vaipulya being sufficiently similar in manuscript script to have been confused in transmission.
| Reference | sarvavaidalyasaṃgrahasūtra [सर्ववैदल्यसंग्रहसूत्र]. 'phags pa rnam par 'thag pa thams cad bsdus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རྣམ་པར་འཐག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་བསྡུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra Gathering All Fragments (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 227 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=227&typ=1. |
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| People | Jinamitra, Yeshe De, Munivarman |
