Ratnadārikāsūtra
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|BuNayKarlDescription=Neither the Tibetan nor the Chinese canons contain a ''Ratnadārikāparipṛcchāsūtra''. As it turns out, this is actually just another name of the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra''.<ref>D169 (forty-eight folios) as well as Taishō 397 (3) and 399. </ref> At the end of the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra'', the Buddha gives a list of synonyms for this sūtra, which include ''Ratnadārikāparipṛcchā''. In the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra'', the main interlocutor is indeed Ratnadārikā and the Buddha teaches her the sixty-four qualities of awakening (including their individual causes) in the exact order as they are presented in the third chapter of the ''Uttaratantra'' (which explicitly refers to the ''Ratnadārikāsūtra'' as the source of these qualities).<ref>These passages are also quoted in RYC as being from the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra''. </ref> However, these qualities are not specific to the ''tathāgatagarbha'' teachings and, with slight variations, appear in many other sūtras too. | |BuNayKarlDescription=Neither the Tibetan nor the Chinese canons contain a ''Ratnadārikāparipṛcchāsūtra''. As it turns out, this is actually just another name of the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra''.<ref>D169 (forty-eight folios) as well as Taishō 397 (3) and 399. </ref> At the end of the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra'', the Buddha gives a list of synonyms for this sūtra, which include ''Ratnadārikāparipṛcchā''. In the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra'', the main interlocutor is indeed Ratnadārikā and the Buddha teaches her the sixty-four qualities of awakening (including their individual causes) in the exact order as they are presented in the third chapter of the ''Uttaratantra'' (which explicitly refers to the ''Ratnadārikāsūtra'' as the source of these qualities).<ref>These passages are also quoted in RYC as being from the ''Mahāyānopadeśasūtra''. </ref> However, these qualities are not specific to the ''tathāgatagarbha'' teachings and, with slight variations, appear in many other sūtras too. | ||
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Mahāyānopadeśasūtra
འཕགས་པ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མན་ངག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'phags pa theg pa chen po'i man ngag ces bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
大方等大集經
Dà fāng děng dà jí jīng
An important sūtra source for the Uttaratantra in its discussion of the third of the seven topics (buddha) in which the qualities of awakening are listed.
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This sūtra is quoted in relation to the third vajrapada in the Uttaratantra and the presentation of the sixty-four qualities of awakening.
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Description from When the Clouds Part
Neither the Tibetan nor the Chinese canons contain a Ratnadārikāparipṛcchāsūtra. As it turns out, this is actually just another name of the Mahāyānopadeśasūtra.[1] At the end of the Mahāyānopadeśasūtra, the Buddha gives a list of synonyms for this sūtra, which include Ratnadārikāparipṛcchā. In the Mahāyānopadeśasūtra, the main interlocutor is indeed Ratnadārikā and the Buddha teaches her the sixty-four qualities of awakening (including their individual causes) in the exact order as they are presented in the third chapter of the Uttaratantra (which explicitly refers to the Ratnadārikāsūtra as the source of these qualities).[2] However, these qualities are not specific to the tathāgatagarbha teachings and, with slight variations, appear in many other sūtras too.
Like many other sūtras, this one also speaks of a single yāna. In general, it contains teachings on emptiness that are quite standard. Toward the end of the sūtra, Ratnadārikā explains "the mudrā of irreversibility of bodhisattvas" to Śāriputra in verses,[3] beginning with:
- Here, the mudrā of irreversibility
- Is the realization of nonduality
- Through having realized the dharmadhātu
- And the dhātu of sentient beings to be equal as true reality.
This is followed by many verses that emphasize the equality of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, the equality of the skandhas and buddhahood, and so on, and identify irreversibility to be emptiness, such as:
- Those are irreversible who realize
- The conditioned dhātus
- And the unconditioned dhātu
- To be empty of reality.
And:
- The mudrā of phenomena is emptiness
- There is no maturation and no elimination.
- Those who are sealed by the mudrā of emptiness
- Are taught to be irreversible.
(pp. 42-43)
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Text Metadata
| Other Titles | ~ Ratnadārikāsūtra ~ ārya-mahāyānopadeśa-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra |
|---|---|
| Text exists in | ~ Tibetan ~ Chinese |
| Canonical Genre | ~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta |
| Literary Genre | ~ Sūtras - mdo |
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