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'''The Sūtra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death''' (Skt. ''Atyaya­jñāna­sūtra'', Tib. འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མདོ་, ''da ka yé shé kyi do'', [[Wyl.]] '' 'da' ka ye shes kyi mdo'') is found in the General Sūtra (''[[mdo sde]]'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] ([[Toh]] 122).
'''The Sutra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death''' (Skt. ''Atyaya­jñāna­sūtra''; Tib. འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མདོ་, ''da ka yé shé kyi do'', [[Wyl.]] '' 'da' ka ye shes kyi mdo'') is found in the ''General Sutra'' (''mdo sde'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] ([[Toh]] 122).


In this brief [[sūtra]] the [[Buddha]], residing in the [[Akaniṣṭha]] realm, by the use of similes, explains to [[bodhisattva]] mahāsattva [[Ākāśagarbha]] the wisdom that should be cultivated by the [[bodhisattva]] when about to die.
In this brief [[sutra]] the [[Buddha]], residing in the [[Akanishtha]] realm, by the use of similes, explains to [[bodhisattva]] mahasattva [[Akashagarbha]] the wisdom that should be cultivated by the [[bodhisattva]] when about to die.


==English Translation==
==English Translation==
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*Lhasey Lotsawa, ''[https://lhaseylotsawa.org/assets/texts/The-Noble-Wisdom-of-the-Time-of-Death-S%C5%ABtra-and-Commentaries.pdf|The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra with Commentaries by Prajñāsamudra & Śāntideva]''
*Lhasey Lotsawa, ''[https://lhaseylotsawa.org/assets/texts/The-Noble-Wisdom-of-the-Time-of-Death-S%C5%ABtra-and-Commentaries.pdf|The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra with Commentaries by Prajñāsamudra & Śāntideva]''
*Lhasey Lotsawa, ''[https://lhaseylotsawa.org/assets/texts/The-Noble-Wisdom-of-Passing-S%c5%abtra.pdf|The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra]''
*Lhasey Lotsawa, ''[https://lhaseylotsawa.org/assets/texts/The-Noble-Wisdom-of-Passing-S%c5%abtra.pdf|The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra]''
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The Sutra on Wisdom at the Hour of Death (Skt. Atyaya­jñāna­sūtra; Tib. འདའ་ཀ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མདོ་, da ka yé shé kyi do, Wyl. 'da' ka ye shes kyi mdo) is found in the General Sutra (mdo sde) section of the Tibetan Kangyur (Toh 122).

In this brief sutra the Buddha, residing in the Akanishtha realm, by the use of similes, explains to bodhisattva mahasattva Akashagarbha the wisdom that should be cultivated by the bodhisattva when about to die.

English Translation