Lalitavistarasūtra
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आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र
āryalalitavistaranāmamahāyānasūtra
འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
方廣大莊嚴經
fāng guǎng dà zhuāng yán jīng
The Play in Full
The Play in Full tells the story of how the Buddha manifested in this world and attained awakening, as perceived from the perspective of the Great Vehicle. The sūtra, which is structured in twenty-seven chapters, first presents the events surrounding the Buddha’s birth, childhood, and adolescence in the royal palace of his father, king of the Śākya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sūtra reveals his complete victory over the demon Māra, his attainment of awakening under the Bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of Dharma, and the formation of the very early saṅgha. (Source: 84000)
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- Poppe, Nicholas. The Twelve Deeds of Buddha: A Mongolian Version of the Lalitavistara; Mongolian Text, Notes, and English Translation. Studies on Asia 16. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.
- Doctor, Andreas, and the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans. The Play in Full: Lalitavistara. v 4.47.12. 84000.co, 2021. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh95.html.
- Foucaux, Philippe Edouard, trans. Le Lalita Vistara: Development des jeux; contenant l'histoire du Boudhha Çakya-Mouni depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa prédication. Part 1. Traduction Francaise. Annales du Musée Guimet 6. Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1884. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101074687607&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021.
- Foucaux, Philippe Edouard, trans. Le Lalita Vistara: Development des jeux; contenant l'histoire du Boudhha Çakya-Mouni depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa prédication. Part 2. Notes, Variantes et Index. Annales du Musée Guimet 19. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1892. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101074687615&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021.
- Lefmann, Salomon, trans. Lalita Vistara: Erzälung von dem leben und der lehre des Çâkya Simha. Berlin: F. Dümmler, 1874. https://archive.org/details/lalitavistaraer00lefmgoog/page/n8/mode/2up.
- Mitra, R. L., trans. The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha. Translated from the original Sanskrit. Bibliotheca Indica 90. Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1881. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwjsrw&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021.
- Bays, Gwendolyn, trans. The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion. 2 vols. Tibetan Translation Series. Emeryville, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1983. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Gwendolyn%20Bays.
- Foucaux, Philippe Édouard, trans. "Rgya tch'er rol pa (Lalitavistara), ou développement de jeux." In Vol. 2 of Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible, edited by Jean-Pierre Guillaume Pauthier and Pierre Gustave Brunet, 574–714. Paris: J. P. Migne, 1858. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082032312&view=1up&seq=578&skin=2021.
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Text exists in | ~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan ~ Chinese |
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Canonical Genre | ~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta |
Literary Genre | ~ Sūtras - mdo |
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