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'''Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend''' (Skt. ''kalyāṇamitrasevanasūtra''; Tib. དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་བསྟེན་པའི་མདོ་, ''gewe shé nyen tenpé do'', [[Wyl.]] ''dge ba’i bshes gnyen bsten pa’i mdo'') — just before he passed away, [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] reminded his disciples of the importance of living with a qualified spiritual teacher. [[Ananda]], the Blessed One’s attendant, attempted to confirm his teacher’s statement, saying that a virtuous [[spiritual friend]] is indeed half of one’s spiritual life. Correcting his disciple’s understanding, the Buddha explains that a qualified guide is the whole of, rather than half of the holy life, and that by relying upon a spiritual friend, beings will be released from birth and attain [[liberation]] from all types of [[suffering]]. | '''Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend''' (Skt. ''kalyāṇamitrasevanasūtra''; Tib. དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་བསྟེན་པའི་མདོ་, ''gewe shé nyen tenpé do'', [[Wyl.]] ''dge ba’i bshes gnyen bsten pa’i mdo'') — just before he passed away, [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] reminded his disciples of the importance of living with a qualified spiritual teacher. [[Ananda]], the Blessed One’s attendant, attempted to confirm his teacher’s statement, saying that a virtuous [[spiritual friend]] is indeed half of one’s spiritual life. Correcting his disciple’s understanding, the Buddha explains that a qualified guide is the whole of, rather than half of the holy life, and that by relying upon a spiritual friend, beings will be released from birth and attain [[liberation]] from all types of [[suffering]].<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> | ||
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**English translation: {{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-071-014.html|The Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend}} | **English translation: {{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-071-014.html|The Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend}} | ||
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Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend (Skt. kalyāṇamitrasevanasūtra; Tib. དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་བསྟེན་པའི་མདོ་, gewe shé nyen tenpé do, Wyl. dge ba’i bshes gnyen bsten pa’i mdo) — just before he passed away, Buddha Shakyamuni reminded his disciples of the importance of living with a qualified spiritual teacher. Ananda, the Blessed One’s attendant, attempted to confirm his teacher’s statement, saying that a virtuous spiritual friend is indeed half of one’s spiritual life. Correcting his disciple’s understanding, the Buddha explains that a qualified guide is the whole of, rather than half of the holy life, and that by relying upon a spiritual friend, beings will be released from birth and attain liberation from all types of suffering.[1]
Tibetan Text
- Derge Kangyur, General Sutra Section, Toh 300
Read the Tibetan text online at Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre
- English translation:
The Sutra on Reliance Upon a Virtuous Spiritual Friend
- English translation:
References
- ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.