The Stem Array: Gaṇḍavyūha (Roberts, P.)

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The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha)

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• The Avalokinī Sūtra: Avalokinīsūtra (Collet-Cassart, B.)
• The Bodhisattva Path: Based on the Ugraparipṛcchā, a Mahāyāna Sūtra
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• The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch: Ratnolkādhāraṇī (Jackson, D.)
• The Diamond Sutra (Conze)
• The Exalted Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Wisdom Gone Beyond Called The Vajra Cutter
• The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened
• The Good Eon: Bhadrakalpika (Doctor, T.)
• The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti
• The Jewel Cloud: Ratnamegha (Doctor, T.)
• The King of Glorious Sutras called the Exalted Sublime Golden Light
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• The Legend of Saṃgharakṣita
• The Lion's Roar of Queen Śrīmālā
• The Miraculous Play of Mañjuśrī: Mañjuśrīvikrīḍita (Braarvig, J.)
• The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials
• The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (Doctor, A.)
• The Precious Discourse on the Blessed One’s Extensive Wisdom That Leads to Infinite Certainty: Niṣṭhāgatabhagavajjñānavaipulyasūtraratnānanta (Doctor, A.)
• The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla (1): Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā (Brockhausen, K.)
• The Questions of Sāgaramati: Sāgaramatiparipṛcchā (Hinkle, T.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (1): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Hinkle, T.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (2): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Ewing, B.)
• The Questions of the Nāga King Sāgara (3): Sāgaranāgarājaparipṛcchā (Gyaltsen, Kalsang)
• The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra - Āryasatyakaparivarta
• The Rice Seedling Sutra
• The Rice Seedling: Śālistamba (Raktrul, 6th)
• The Seal of Engagement in Awakening the Power of Faith: Śraddhābalādhānāvatāramudrā (Beer, Z.)
• The Skill in Means (Upāyakauśalya) Sūtra
• The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 1: Introduction
• The Sky as a Mahāyāna Symbol of Emptiness and Generous Fullness: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: Volume 2: Edition and Translation
• The Stem Array: Gaṇḍavyūha (Roberts, P.)
• The Strength of the Elephant: Hastikakṣya (Forgues, G.)
• The Sutra of the Householder Uncouth
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• The Ugraparipṛcchā, the Mahāratnakūṭasūtra and Early Mahāyāna Buddhism
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• The Śālistamba Sūtra
• The Śālistamba Sūtra and Its Indian Commentaries, Volume I
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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha's wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)

Citation

Roberts, Peter Alan, trans. The Stem Array (Gaṇḍavyūha). Edited by Emily Bower. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh44-45.html.

Table of contents

• ti. Title
• im. Imprint
• co. Contents
• s. Summary
• ac. Acknowledgements
• i. Introduction
  • Indian Origins of the Sūtra
  • The Gaṇḍa­vyūha Sūtra in China
  • Gaṇḍa­vyūha and Borobudur
  • The Gaṇḍa­vyūha Sūtra in Tibet
  • Translations into Western Languages
  • The Meaning of the Title as Translated into Tibetan
  • The Meaning of the Title Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra
  • Who Is Sudhana and What Is a Śreṣthin?
  • The Numbers
  • Challenges in the Translation
  • Detailed Summary of The Stem Array Sūtra
• tr. Chapter 45: The Stem Array
  • 1. The Setting
  • 2. Samanta­bhadra
  • 3. Mañjuśrī
  • 4. Meghaśrī
  • 5. Sāgara­megha
  • 6. Supratiṣṭhita
  • 7. Megha
  • 8. Muktaka
  • 9. Sāgara­dhvaja
  • 10. Āśā
  • 11. Bhīṣmottara­nirghoṣa
  • 12. Jayoṣmāyatana
  • 13. Maitrayaṇī
  • 14. Sudarśana
  • 15. Indriyeśvara
  • 16. Prabhūtā
  • 17. Vidvān
  • 18. Ratnacūḍa
  • 19. Samanta­netra
  • 20. Anala
  • 21. Mahāprabha
  • 22. Acalā
  • 23. Sarvagamin
  • 24. Utpalabhūti
  • 25. Vaira
  • 26. Jayottama
  • 27. Siṃha­vijṛmbhitā
  • 28. Vasumitrā
  • 29. Veṣṭhila
  • 30. Avalokiteśvara
  • 31. Ananyagāmin
  • 32. Mahādeva
  • 33. Sthāvarā
  • 34. Vāsantī
  • 35. Samanta­gambhīra­śrī­vimala­prabhā
  • 36. Pramudita­nayana­jagad­virocanā
  • 37. Samanta­sattva­trāṇojaḥ­śrī
  • 38. Praśanta­ruta­sāgara­vatī
  • 39. Sarva­nagara­rakṣā­saṃbhava­tejaḥ­śrī
  • 40. Sarva­vṛkṣpraphullana­sukha­saṃvāsā
  • 41. Sarva­jagad­rakṣā­praṇidhāna­vīrya­prabhā
  • 42. Sutejomaṇḍala­rati­śrī
  • 43. Gopā
  • 44. Māyādevī
  • 45. Surendrābhā
  • 46. Viśvāmitra
  • 47. Śilpābhijña
  • 48. Bhadrottamā
  • 49. Muktāsāra
  • 50. Sucandra
  • 51. Ajitasena
  • 52. Śivarāgra
  • 53. Śrīsaṃbhava and Śrīmati
  • 54. Maitreya
  • 55. Mañjuśrī
  • 56. Samanta­bhadra and "The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct”
• c. Colophon
  • Tibetan Editor’s Colophon
• n. Notes
• b. Bibliography
  • Kangyur Texts
  • Sanskrit Editions of the Gaṇḍa­vyūha
  • Chinese Editions of the Gaṇḍa­vyūha and Commentaries
  • Translations of the Gaṇḍa­vyūha
  • Related Works in Tibetan
  • Related Works in Other Languages
• g. Glossary

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ

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In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000)

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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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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Vīrya - Diligence is the joyful and consistent effort applied to virtuous actions and spiritual practice. It acts as the engine that drives progress and prevents laziness or discouragement on the path. Skt वीर्य  Tib བརྩོན་འགྲུས་  Ch 精進  

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