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The [[sutra]] known as '''The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities''' (Skt. ''Maitreya­paripṛcchā­dharmāṣṭa''; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa'') is found in the ''[[Ratnakuta]]'' (''Heap of Jewels'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] ([[Toh]] 86).
The [[sutra]] known as '''The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities''' (Skt. ''Maitreya­paripṛcchā­dharmāṣṭa''; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, [[Wyl.]] ''byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa'') is found in the ''Heap of Jewels'' (Skt. ''[[Ratnakuta]]'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] ([[Toh]] 86).


In this short 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.
In this short 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.


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Revision as of 12:35, 25 February 2020

The sutra known as The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities (Skt. Maitreya­paripṛcchā­dharmāṣṭa; Tib. བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa) is found in the Heap of Jewels (Skt. Ratnakuta) section of the Tibetan Kangyur (Toh 86).

In this short 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.

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