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'''The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities''' (Skt. ''Maitreyaparipṛcchādharmāṣṭa''; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa'') — in this short [[Mahayana]] [[sutra]], the [[Buddha]] explains to [[Maitreya]] the eight qualities necessary for a [[bodhisattva]] to complete the path to [[buddhahood]]. In explaining the final quality, the [[perfection of wisdom]], the Buddha teaches the doctrine of the [[twelve links of dependent origination]] in forward and reverse order. | '''The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities''' (Skt. ''Maitreyaparipṛcchādharmāṣṭa''; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa'') — in this short [[Mahayana]] [[sutra]], the [[Buddha]] explains to [[Maitreya]] the eight qualities necessary for a [[bodhisattva]] to complete the path to [[buddhahood]]. In explaining the final quality, the [[perfection of wisdom]], the Buddha teaches the doctrine of the [[twelve links of dependent origination]] in forward and reverse order.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | ||
==Text== | ==Text== | ||
The Tibetan translation of this text is found in the ''[[Heap of Jewels]]'' section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]], [[Toh]] 86. | The Tibetan translation of this text is found in the ''[[Heap of Jewels]]'' section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]], [[Toh]] 86. | ||
*English translation: {{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-044-006.html|The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities}} | *English translation: {{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-044-006.html|The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:53, 18 December 2020
The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities (Skt. Maitreyaparipṛcchādharmāṣṭa; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa) — in this short Mahayana sutra, the Buddha explains to Maitreya the eight qualities necessary for a bodhisattva to complete the path to buddhahood. In explaining the final quality, the perfection of wisdom, the Buddha teaches the doctrine of the twelve links of dependent origination in forward and reverse order.[1]
Text
The Tibetan translation of this text is found in the Heap of Jewels section of the Tibetan Kangyur, Toh 86.
- English translation:
The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities
References
- ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.