Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchāsūtra/Full text
Manipulated into a murderous rage by the jealous Queen Anupamā, King Udayana launches a barrage of arrows at Queen Śyāmāvatī. King Udayana is terrified when Queen Śyāmāvatī pays homage to the Buddha, cultivates loving kindness, and the arrows are repelled. Awestruck by such a spectacle and inspired by Queen Śyāmāvatī’s words of praise for the Buddha, King Udayana approaches the Buddha and requests a teaching on the inadequacies of women. The Buddha tells King Udayana that he must first understand his own faults and proceeds to deliver a discourse on the four faults of men, such as attachment to sense pleasures and failure to take care of elderly parents. The teaching is delivered with a plethora of analogies and striking imagery to turn the mind away from sensual desires. The work concludes with King Udayana giving up his weapons and going for refuge in the Three Jewels, filled with love for all beings. (Source: 84000)
| Reference | Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchānāmaparivarta [आर्योदयनवत्सराजपरिपृच्छानामपरिवर्त]. 'phags pa bad sa'i rgyal po 'char byed kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba'i le'u [འཕགས་པ་བད་སའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཆར་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ལེའུ།]. [The Sūtra of the Questions of Udayana, King of Vatsa (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Bodhiruci, Fa-chü, Fa-t'ien. Kangyur, RKTSK 73 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=73&typ=1. |
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| People | Bodhiruci, Faju, Jinamitra |
