Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchāsūtra/Full text
Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upāli's Questions is a sūtra focused on the relationship between and integration of the prātimokṣa vows of monastic discipline and the conduct of a bodhisattva who follows the Mahāyāna tradition. The sūtra’s two main interlocuters, Śāriputra and Upāli, query the Buddha about the relationship between these two levels of commitments, eliciting a teaching on the different orientations held by the followers of different Buddhist vehicles and how their different views affect the application of their vows. Ascertaining the Vinaya is a particularly valuable sūtra for its inclusion of a unique form of the confessional "Three Sections" rite, making it one of the few extant canonical sources to describe it at length. (Source: 84000)
| Reference | Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchāsūtra [आर्यविनयविनिश्चयोपालिपरिप्ड़्च्छानाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa 'dul ba rnam par gtan la dbab pa nye bar 'khor gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་འདུལ་བ་རྣམ་པར་གཏན་ལ་དབབ་པ་ཉེ་བར་འཁོར་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Ascertaining the Discipline: the Sūtra of Upāli's Questions (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Bodhiruci, Jinamitra, Prajñāvarman, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Guṇavarman. Kangyur, RKTSK 68 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=68&typ=1. |
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| People | Bodhiruci, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi |
