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In '''The Chapter on Manjushri’s Magical Display''' (Skt. ''Mañjuśrīvikurvāṇaparivarta''; Tib. འཇམ་དཔལ་རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པའི་ལེའུ།, [[Wyl.]] '' 'jam dpal rnam par 'phrul pa’i le’u''), the bodhisattva [[Manjushri]] answers a series of questions posed by the god Great Light concerning the appropriate conduct for [[bodhisattva]]s and the potential pitfalls and obstacles presented to bodhisattvas by [[Mara]]. Midway through the [[sutra]], the demon Mara himself appears and, after being captured and converted byManjushri, he begins to teach the [[Shakyamun Buddha|Buddha]]’s [[Dharma]] to the audience. After revealing that Mara was never truly bound by anything other than his own perception, Manjushri resumes his teaching for the remainder of the sutra.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>
In '''The Chapter on Manjushri’s Magical Display''' (Skt. ''Mañjuśrīvikurvāṇaparivarta''; Tib. འཇམ་དཔལ་རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པའི་ལེའུ།, [[Wyl.]] '' 'jam dpal rnam par 'phrul pa’i le’u''), the bodhisattva [[Manjushri]] answers a series of questions posed by the god Great Light concerning the appropriate conduct for [[bodhisattva]]s and the potential pitfalls and obstacles presented to bodhisattvas by [[Mara]]. Midway through the [[sutra]], the demon Mara himself appears and, after being captured and converted byManjushri, he begins to teach the [[Buddha Shakyamuni|Buddha]]’s [[Dharma]] to the audience. After revealing that Mara was never truly bound by anything other than his own perception, Manjushri resumes his teaching for the remainder of the sutra.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>


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Revision as of 09:20, 18 February 2021

In The Chapter on Manjushri’s Magical Display (Skt. Mañjuśrīvikurvāṇaparivarta; Tib. འཇམ་དཔལ་རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པའི་ལེའུ།, Wyl. 'jam dpal rnam par 'phrul pa’i le’u), the bodhisattva Manjushri answers a series of questions posed by the god Great Light concerning the appropriate conduct for bodhisattvas and the potential pitfalls and obstacles presented to bodhisattvas by Mara. Midway through the sutra, the demon Mara himself appears and, after being captured and converted byManjushri, he begins to teach the Buddha’s Dharma to the audience. After revealing that Mara was never truly bound by anything other than his own perception, Manjushri resumes his teaching for the remainder of the sutra.[1]

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The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section of the Tibetan Kangyur, Toh 97

References

  1. ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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