Atyayajñānasūtra

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

D122

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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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Atyayajñānasūtra. (Sūtra on Wisdom at Death). Recension information:

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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. Derge 122, mdo sde, tha 153a1-153b1 (vol. 54). Also appears in Q 790, mdo sna tshogs, tu 159a1-159b2 (vol. 31, p.209); N 109, mdo sde, nya 234b7-235b5 (vol. 54); C 783, mdo mang, tha 171a7-171b8 (vol. 34); H 124, mdo sde, nya 225b7-226b5 (vol. 54); J 67, mdo sde, tha 148b5-149a6 (vol. 49); U 122, mdo sde, tha 151b5-152a5 (vol. 54).

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Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta
Literary Genre	~ Sūtras - mdo

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

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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