Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra

आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र

Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra

འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)

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At the opening of this sūtra, King Ajātaśatru’s son Siṃha and his five hundred attendants approach the Buddha, who is on Vulture Peak. After paying homage and offering golden parasols, Siṃha asks the Buddha a series of questions about the conduct of bodhisattvas. The Buddha answers each of Siṃha’s questions with a series of verses describing the various karmic causes that result in the qualities and attributes of bodhisattvas. Afterward, when Siṃha and his attendants promise to train in this teaching, the Buddha smiles, causing the three-thousandfold world system to quake. When the bodhisattva Ajita asks the Buddha why he smiled, the Buddha explains that Siṃha and all of his companions will become buddhas and establish buddhafields similar to that of Amitābha. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 81 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=81&typ=1.

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra (Tseng, V.)

This is an English translation of the Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra by Bhikṣuṇī Vinītā (Vinita Tseng), part of A Unique Collection of Twenty Sutras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala.

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Number	81
Canon	Ratnakūṭa
Sanskrit	ārya-siṃhaparipṛcchā-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A C Cz D Dd Dk Gt H J L N Np Pj Pz Q R S T Ty U V);seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (F);'phags pa seng ge'i zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (He);'phags pa seng ge zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;'phags pa seng ge zhus pa zhes bya ba'i theg pa chen po'i mdo';'phags pa seng ges zhus pa'i mdo;seng ges zhus pa;seng ges zhus pa'i le'u;'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';seng ges zhus pa'i le'u zhes bya ste / sum bcu rtsa bdun
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	ārya siṃhaparipṛcchā nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्य सिंहपरिपृच्छा नाम महायान सूत्र

Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Vinītā, Bhikṣuṇī (Vinita Tseng), trans. and ed. "Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra." In A Unique Collection of Twenty Sutras in a Sanskrit Manuscript from the Potala. Vol. I,2. Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 7/2. Beijing and Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2010.

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 81 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=81&typ=1.

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 81 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=81&typ=1.

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 81 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=81&typ=1.

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Siṃhaparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यसिंहपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa seng ges zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སེང་གེས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Siṃha's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, Ye shes sde, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 81 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=81&typ=1.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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