Atyayajñānasūtra
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अत्ययज्ञानसूत्र
Atyayajñānasūtra
འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'da' ka ye shes kyi mdo
Sūtra on Wisdom at Death
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While the Buddha is residing in the Akaniṣṭha realm, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Ākāśagarbha asks him how to consider the mind of a bodhisattva who is about to die. The Buddha replies that when death comes a bodhisattva should develop the wisdom of the hour of death. He explains that a bodhisattva should cultivate a clear understanding of the non-existence of entities, great compassion, non-apprehension, non-attachment, and a clear understanding that, since wisdom is the realization of one’s own mind, the Buddha should not be sought elsewhere. After these points have been repeated in verse form, the assembly praises the Buddha’s words, concluding the sūtra. (Source: 84000 Reading Room)
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Tibetan | འཕགས་པ་འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། ('phags pa 'da' ka ye shes zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo). BCRD Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=cc9c33121e06ebe32cd4aefb8e049e8d&enc=tibetan_wylie_title&coll=kangyur.
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Text Metadata
Text exists in | ~ Tibetan |
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Canonical Genre | ~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta |
Literary Genre | ~ Sūtras - mdo |
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