Lalitavistarasūtra

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

D95   ·  T187

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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 Reading Room)

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Recensions of This Text

Lalitavistarasūtra. (The Play in Full). Recension information:

Sanskrit	ललितविस्तरसूत्र, Lalitavistarasūtra. The Lalita Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śākya Siñha. Edited by Mitra, Rajendralala. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, lxiv, 575 p. (Bibllndica 164), 1877. Lalitavistara. Edited by Vaidya, P. L. Darbhanga: The Mithila Institute, 1958. Input by members of the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project: http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/book/45.
Tibetan	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). AIBS Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=0a42cfc9c093d993284d6b1e1cd47062&enc=tibetan_wylie_title&coll=kangyur. Derge 95, mdo sde, kha 1b1-216b7 (vol. 46), translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, and Ye shes sde. Also appears in Q 763, mdo sna tshogs, ku 1a1-246a5 (vol. 27, p.153); N 83, mdo sde, kha 1b1-329a6 (vol. 48); C 736, mdo mang, kha 1b1-268b5 (vol. 26); H 96, mdo sde, kha 1b1-352a6 (vol. 48); J 40, mdo sde, kha 1b1-246b6 (vol. 41); U 95, mdo sde, kha 1b1-216b7 (vol. 46).
Chinese	方廣大莊嚴經 (fāng guǎng dà zhuāng yán jīng), T187, 03: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0187.html, translated by Divākara.

Text Metadata

Text exists in	~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan ~ Chinese
Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta
Literary Genre	~ Sūtras - mdo

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

bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt. बोधि Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ Ch. 菩提,悟,覺