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'''The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment''' (Skt. ''Bodhipakṣanirdeśa''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་བསྟན་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa'') is in response to a series of queries from [[Manjushri]]. [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] first exposes the error that prevents sentient beings in general from transcending [[samsara]], and then focuses more particularly on errors that result from understanding the [[Four Noble Truths |four truths of the noble ones]] based on conceptual notions of [[phenomenon |phenomena]]. He then goes on to explain how someone wishing to attain [[liberation]] should skilfully view the following five sets of qualities: (1) the four truths, (2) the [[four applications of mindfulness]], (3) [[Noble eightfold path |the eightfold path]] (4) [[Faculties |the five faculties]], and (5) the[[Seven elements for enlightenment | seven branches of enlightenment]]. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | '''The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment''' (Skt. ''Bodhipakṣanirdeśa''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་བསྟན་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa'') is in response to a series of queries from [[Manjushri]]. [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] first exposes the error that prevents sentient beings in general from transcending [[samsara]], and then focuses more particularly on errors that result from understanding the [[Four Noble Truths |four truths of the noble ones]] based on conceptual notions of [[phenomenon |phenomena]]. He then goes on to explain how someone wishing to attain [[liberation]] should skilfully view the following five sets of qualities: (1) the four truths, (2) the [[four applications of mindfulness]], (3) [[Noble eightfold path |the eightfold path]] (4) [[Faculties |the five faculties]], and (5) the[[Seven elements for enlightenment | seven branches of enlightenment]].<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | ||
==Text== | |||
The Tibetan translation of this [[sutra]] can be found in the ''[[General Sutra]]'' section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]], [[Toh]] 178 | |||
*English translation: {{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh178.html|The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Texts]] | [[Category: Texts]] | ||
[[Category: Sutras]] | [[Category: Sutras]] | ||
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[[Category: Mahayana Sutras]] | |||
Latest revision as of 14:07, 3 December 2020
The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment (Skt. Bodhipakṣanirdeśa; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa) is in response to a series of queries from Manjushri. Buddha Shakyamuni first exposes the error that prevents sentient beings in general from transcending samsara, and then focuses more particularly on errors that result from understanding the four truths of the noble ones based on conceptual notions of phenomena. He then goes on to explain how someone wishing to attain liberation should skilfully view the following five sets of qualities: (1) the four truths, (2) the four applications of mindfulness, (3) the eightfold path (4) the five faculties, and (5) the seven branches of enlightenment.[1]
Text
The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section of the Tibetan Kangyur, Toh 178
- English translation:
The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment
References
- ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.