Ratnarāśisūtra

आर्यरत्नराशिनाममहायानसूत्र

Ratnarāśisūtra

འཕགས་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa rin po che'i phung po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

The Mass of Jewels (84000)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

The very title Ratnarāśi means "a heap or hoard of treasure or gems."[1] For the authors of the sutra, the reference is clearly to the life of strict observance of discipline, a life structured by Buddhist ascetic practice: this is the gem, and the text is a collection of advice on how to properly conduct oneself in order to realize for oneself and in oneself this jewelled goal. The monastic, ascetic, renunciant life is a treasure because it is the key to liberation from the suffering of the round of samsāra, not only for the ascetic but for those who materially support him. (Silk, "The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism," 29)

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Ratnarāśisūtra [आर्यरत्नराशिनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa rin po che'i phung po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Mass of Jewels (84000)]. Translated by Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Tao Kung. Kangyur, RKTSK 88 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=88&typ=1.

Full translations

A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras

Contains 22 of the 49 Sūtras of the Mahāratnakūṭa (or "Treasury") Sūtra, many translated for the first time in a Western language

Book

Abiding in Good and Noble Deportment

An English translation of the Ratnarāśisūtra from the Chinese edition by Tao Kung; published in A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras, edited by Garma C. C. Chang.

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Scholarship

The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials

A complete, annotated translation of the Ratnarāśisūtra with critical editions of the Tibetan canonical translation, with Sanskrit fragments, and the Chinese canonical translation.

Dissertation

	Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies (rKTs)
	Adarshah
	Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC)
	84000 Project
	Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP)
	Chinese Electronic Buddhist Texts Association (CBETA)
	SAT Taisho Text Database

Number	88
Canon	Ratnakūṭa
Sanskrit	ārya-ratnarāśi-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D)
Alternate Titles	'phags pa rin po che'i phung po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A C D J T Ty Z);'phags pa rin po che'i phung bo zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (Cz Dd Dk Gt H He L Np Pj Pz Q R S U V);rin po che'i phung bo zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (F);rin po che'i phung po (N);'phags pa rin po che'i phung po zhes;rin po che'i phung bo zhes;rin po che'i phung po lung bstan pa'i le'u;rin po che'i phung po lung bstan pa'i mdo;'phags pa rin po che'i phung po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';rin po che'i phung po'i le'u zhes bya ba'i le'u ste / bzhi bcu rtsa gsum pa
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	ārya ratnarāśi nāma mahāyāna sūtra
Alternate Titles - Devanagari	आर्य रत्नराशि नाम महायान सूत्र