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Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra [वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र]. 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Perfection of Wisdom "The Diamond Cutter" (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Kumārajīva, Paramārtha, Dharmagupta, Yijing, Xuanzang. Kangyur, RKTSK 16 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=16&typ=1.འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

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One of the most revered and recited scriptures of the perfection of wisdom genre (prajñāpāramitāsūtras), perhaps second only to the Heart Sūtra, both of which became especially popular in the East Asian Buddhist traditions. It is a crucial source for Mahāyāna tenets of selflessness and the emptiness of phenomena, and its discourse is framed as an explanation of how to enter into the vehicle of the bodhisattvas by developing and sustaining their enlightened perspective.

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Amitābhavyūhasūtra [आर्यामिताभव्यूहनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa 'od dpag med kyi bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Array of Amitābha (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde. Kangyur, RKTSK 49 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=49&typ=1.འཕགས་པ་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

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Amitabhavyuha Sutra (Skt. Amitābhavyūhasūtra; Tib. འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་བཀོད་པའི་མདོ།, Wyl. 'od dpag med kyi bkod pa'i mdo), which is also known as the "longer" Sukhavativyuha Sutra (Skt. Sukhāvatīvyūhasūtra), gives a detailed description of the Sukhavati pure realm of Buddha Amitabha. The teaching takes place on Vulture's Peak Mountain near Rajagriha. (Source Accessed May 25, 2023)འཕགས་པ་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་བཀོད་པའམ། མཚན་གཞན་དུ་བདེ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་འདི་ནི། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ཀྱི་བྱ་རྒོད་ཕུང་པོའི་རི་ལ་དགེ་སློང་སུམ་ཁྲི་ཉིས་སྟོང་གི་དགེ་སློང་གི་དགེ་འདུན་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ཐབས་ཅིག་ཏུ་བཞུགས་ཏེ་གསུངས་ཤིང་། འདིར་སངས་རྒྱས་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་ཞིང་ཁམས་ནུབ་བདེ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་བཀོད་པ་ཞིབ་ཅིང་ཕྲ་བར་བསྟན་ཡོད།

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Cowell, Edward B., F. Max Müller, and Junjirō Takakusu, trans. Buddhist Mahayana Texts. Sacred Books of the East 49. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1965.

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Buddhist Mahayana Texts, edited and translated by E.B. Cowell, F. Max Müller, and J. Takakusu, is Volume 49 of the Sacred Books of the East series. Originally published in 1894 by Clarendon Press, it includes foundational early English translations of key Sanskrit and Chinese Mahayana scriptures.

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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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 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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Anātman - The Buddhist teaching of "non-self" or "selflessness"—the understanding that there is no permanent, unchanging self or soul within living beings. Along with impermanence (anitya) and suffering (duḥkha), it is one of the three marks of existence that characterize all conditioned phenomena. Skt अनात्मन्  Tib བདག་མེད་པ་  Ch 无我  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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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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Amitābhavyūhasūtra [आर्यामिताभव्यूहनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa 'od dpag med kyi bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་འོད་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Array of Amitābha (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde. Kangyur, RKTSK 49 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=49&typ=1.

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