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आर्यवीरदत्तगृहपतिपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र

Vīradattagṛhapatiparipṛcchāsūtra

འཕགས་པ་ཁྱིམ་བདག་དཔས་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa khyim bdag dpas byin gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

Sūtra of Vīradatta's Questions (84000)

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While the Buddha is residing in Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park, with a great assembly of monks, elsewhere in Śrāvastī the eminent householder Vīradatta hosts a meeting with five hundred householders to discuss certain questions regarding the practice of the Great Vehicle. Hoping to resolve these questions, Vīradatta and the householders decide to approach the Buddha in Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park. There the Buddha explains how bodhisattvas should engender the spirit of great compassion while not being attached to the body or to enjoyments, and he then instructs the householders on how bodhisattvas should examine the impermanence and impurity of the body. This prose teaching is followed by a set of verses that reiterate how the body is impure and impermanent and that elucidate the process of karma and its effects. As a result of this teaching, Vīradatta and the five hundred householders attain the acceptance that phenomena are unborn. They then proclaim, in a well-known series of verses, the merits of aspiring for the awakening to buddhahood. The Buddha smiles, predicting that Vīradatta and the five hundred householders will attain spiritual awakening. The sūtra concludes with the Buddha telling Ānanda about the name of this Dharma discourse. (Source: 84000)

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Vīradattagṛhapatiparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यवीरदत्तगृहपतिपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa khyim bdag dpas byin gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཁྱིམ་བདག་དཔས་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Sūtra of Vīradatta's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde, Bodhiruci, Po Fa-tsu, Dānapāla. Kangyur, RKTSK 72 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=72&typ=1.

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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 the 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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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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Kṣānti - Patience is the ability to remain calm and composed when facing difficulties, suffering, or harm from others, without becoming angry or discouraged. Skt क्षान्ति  Tib བཟོད་པ་  Ch 忍;忍辱  

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Vīradattagṛhapatiparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यवीरदत्तगृहपतिपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa khyim bdag dpas byin gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཁྱིམ་བདག་དཔས་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Sūtra of Vīradatta's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde, Bodhiruci, Po Fa-tsu, Dānapāla. Kangyur, RKTSK 72 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=72&typ=1.

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Vīradattagṛhapatiparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यवीरदत्तगृहपतिपरिपृच्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa khyim bdag dpas byin gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཁྱིམ་བདག་དཔས་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Sūtra of Vīradatta's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde, Bodhiruci, Po Fa-tsu, Dānapāla. Kangyur, RKTSK 72 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=72&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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