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The '''ten royal sutras''' (''rgyal po'i mdo bcu'') are the sutras Guru Padmasambhava personally recommended to King Trisrong Detsen (''khri srong lde btsan'') who had requested only but the most essential sutras for practice.  
The '''ten royal sutras''' (Tib. རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rgyal po'i mdo bcu'') the [[sutra]]s Guru [[Padmasambhava]] personally recommended to [[King Trisong Detsen]] who had requested only but the most essential sutras for practice. These are the [[five royal sutras]] with the addition of five other sutras.


{{:five royal sutras}}
#Longevity sutra: ''[[Sutra of Boundless Life and Wisdom]]''
#Dharani sutra: ''The Ritual for the Blue-Clad Vajrapani'' (Skt. ''Ārya-nīlāmbaradhara-vajrapāṇi-kalpa-nāma-dhāraṇī''; Wyl. ''gos sngon can'') ([[Toh]] 748)
#*English translation: {{LH|words-of-the-buddha/blue-clad-vajrapani|Rituals for the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi}}
#Prevention sutra: ''[[Sitatapatra|White Umbrella sutra]]'' (Toh 591)
#*English translation: {{LH|words-of-the-buddha/dukkar-chokdrupma|The Noble Dhāraṇī of The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitātapatrā}}
#Wealth sutra: ''[[Vasudhara]] Sutra''
#*English translation: {{LH|words-of-the-buddha/vasudhara-dharani|The Noble Vasudhārā Dhāraṇī}}
#Essence sutra: ''The Perfection of Wisdom ‘In One Syllable’'' (Wyl. ''yi ge gcig ma'') (Toh 23)
#*English translation: {{LH|words-of-the-buddha/one-syllable-perfection-of-wisdom|The Perfection of Wisdom, Mother of All Tathāgatas, ‘In One Syllable’}}


1. Aspiration sutra: The King of Aspiration Prayers (''bzang po spyod pa'i smon lam'')[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/samantabhadra-aspiration-good-actions]
==Further Reading==
*[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''Outline of the Ten Royal Sutras'', see: {{LH|tibetan-masters/mipham/ten-royal-sutras-outline|Lotsawa House}}


2. Cleansing sutra: The Vajravidāraṇa-snāhavidhi (''rdo rje rnam 'joms'')
==External Links==
*{{LH|topics/ten-royal-sutras|Ten Royal Sūtras Collection}}


3. View sutra: The Heart Sutra (''shes rab snying po'')
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4. Meditation sutra: The Wisdom of the Hour of Death ('''da' ka ye shes'')[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/sutra-wisdom-hour-of-death ]
[[Category:Texts]]
 
[[Category:Enumerations]]
5. Confession sutra: Bodhisattva Confession of Downfalls (''byang chub ltung bshags'')[https://lhaseylotsawa.org/texts/the-bodhisattvas-confession-of-downfalls ]
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6. Longevity sutra: The Infinite Life sutra[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/sutra-boundless-life ]
 
7. Dharani sutra: The Blue Clad One Sutra (Skt: ''Ārya-nīlāmbaradhara-vajrapāṇi-kalpa-nāma-dhāraṇī'' Tib: ''gos sngon can'')
 
8. Prevention sutra: White Umbrella sutra (''gtsug tor gdugs dkar'')
 
9. Wealth sutra: Vasudhara Sutra (''nor rgyun ma'')
 
10. Essence sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom in a Single Syllable (''yi ge gcig ma'')
 
 
 
'''རྒྱལ་པོ་མདོ་ལྔ།''' 
 
1. བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་མདོ་དང་། 
 
2. རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣམ་འཇོམས་ཁྲུས་ཀྱི་མདོ། 
 
3. ཤེས་རབ་སྣིང་པོ་ལྟ་བའི་མདོ། 
 
4. འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒོམ་པའི་མདོ། 
 
5. བྱང་ཆུབ་ལྟུང་བཤགས་བཤགས་པའི་མདོ་བཅས་ལྔའོ།། 
 
6. རྒྱལ་པོ་མདོ་ལྔའི་སྟེང་དུ་དཔག་དུ་མེད་པ་ཚེའི་མདོ་དང་། 
 
7. གོས་སྔོན་ཅན་ནི་གཟུངས་ཀྱི་མདོ། 
 
8. གཙུག་ཏོར་དགུགས་དཀར་བཟློག་པའི་མདོ། 
 
9. ནོར་རྒྱུན་མ་ནི་ནོར་གྱི་མདོ། 
 
10. ཡི་གེ་གཅིག་མ་སྙིང་པོའི་མདོ་བཅས་བསྣན་པས་བཅུའོ།།

Latest revision as of 23:12, 6 February 2022

The ten royal sutras (Tib. རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ་བཅུ་, Wyl. rgyal po'i mdo bcu) — the sutras Guru Padmasambhava personally recommended to King Trisong Detsen who had requested only but the most essential sutras for practice. These are the five royal sutras with the addition of five other sutras.

  1. The King of Aspiration Prayers which is in chapter 44 of the Avatamsaka Sutra, for aspiration, and described as vast.
  2. Vajra Conqueror for cleansing and purification.
  3. Heart Sutra for the view, and described as profound.
  4. Sutra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death for meditation and described as of definitive meaning.
  5. The Confession of Downfalls, which is part of Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upali’s Questions, for purification of karmic obscurations.
  6. Longevity sutra: Sutra of Boundless Life and Wisdom
  7. Dharani sutra: The Ritual for the Blue-Clad Vajrapani (Skt. Ārya-nīlāmbaradhara-vajrapāṇi-kalpa-nāma-dhāraṇī; Wyl. gos sngon can) (Toh 748)
  8. Prevention sutra: White Umbrella sutra (Toh 591)
  9. Wealth sutra: Vasudhara Sutra
  10. Essence sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom ‘In One Syllable’ (Wyl. yi ge gcig ma) (Toh 23)

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