Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra

गगनगञ्जपरिपृच्छासूत्र

འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

大集大虛空藏菩薩所問經

Dà jí dà xū kōng cáng pú sà suǒ wèn jīng

Questions of Gaganagañja Sūtra

D148 · T404

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Essentially a discourse on merit, particularly that of the buddhas who have accumulated it over countless eons, this sūtra is quoted briefly in the Ratnagotravibhāga in the context of the adventitious nature of the afflictions and the pure nature of the mind.

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Gaganagañjaparipṛcchāsūtra. (Questions of Gaganagañja Sūtra). Recension information:
Tibetan	འཕགས་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་མཛོད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, ('phags pa nam mkha mdzod kyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo). BCRD Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=99e4252bb27f8fe17819673d9950ea2f&enc=sanskrit_romanized_title_4_search&coll=kangyur Derge 148, mdo sde, pa 243a1-330a7 (vol. 57), translated by Vijayaśīla, Śīlendrabodhi and Ye shes sde. Also appears in Q 815, mdo sna tshogs, nu 204b4-293a3 (vol. 33, p.1); N 134, mdo sde, da 321a5-470b7 (vol. 57); C 788, mdo mang, pa 212b4-312a7 (vol. 37); H 149, mdo sde, da 319a5-460b7 (vol. 57); J 92, mdo sde, pa 190b6-277b5 (vol. 52); U 148, mdo sde, pa 243a1-330a7 (vol. 57).
Chinese	大集大虛空藏菩薩所問經 (Dà jí dà xū kōng cáng pú sà suǒ wèn jīng), T404, 13 (See also T397(8)): https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0404.html.

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A passage from this sūtra^[1] is quoted by RGVV^[2] in the context of the tathāgata heart’s being like space, while the skandhas and so on that arise in it resemble the elements. This passage says twice that the afflictions are adventitious and the nature of the mind is fundamentally pure (this is repeated once elsewhere). However, this statement is found in many sūtras.

Apart from that, this sūtra is not related to the notion of buddha nature. (pp. 46-47)

D148 (eighty-eight folios) as well as Taishō 397 (8) and 404.
J44–45.

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Other Titles	~ ārya-gaganagañja-paripṛcchā-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra
Text exists in	~ Tibetan ~ Chinese
Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta
Literary Genre	~ Sūtras - mdo

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Vijayaśīla

Śīlendrabodhi

Yeshe De

"Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha. This book discusses a wide range of topics connected with the notion of buddha nature as presented in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and includes an overview of the sūtra sources of the tathāgatagarbha teachings and the different ways of explaining the meaning of this term. It includes new translations of the Maitreya treatise Mahāyānottaratantra (Ratnagotravibhāga), the primary Indian text on the subject, its Indian commentaries, and two (hitherto untranslated) commentaries from the Tibetan Kagyü tradition. Most important, the translator’s introduction investigates in detail the meditative tradition of using the Mahāyānottaratantra as a basis for Mahāmudrā instructions and the Shentong approach. This is supplemented by translations of a number of short Tibetan meditation manuals from the Kadampa, Kagyü, and Jonang schools that use the Mahāyānottaratantra as a work to contemplate and realize one’s own buddha nature. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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[1] D148 (eighty-eight folios) as well as Taishō 397 (8) and 404.

[2] J44–45.

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