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'''Ratnakuta''' (Skt. ''Ratnakūṭa''; Tib. [[དཀོན་མཆོག་བརྩེགས་པ་]], ''könchok tsekpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''dkon mchog brtsegs pa''), or 'Heap of Jewels', is a collection of 49 [[sutra]]s comprising one of the major sections into which the Tibetan Canon ([[Kangyur]]) is divided.
'''Ratnakuta''' (Skt. ''Ratnakūṭa''; Tib. [[དཀོན་མཆོག་བརྩེགས་པ་]], ''könchok tsekpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''dkon mchog brtsegs pa''), or 'Heap of Jewels', is a collection of 49 [[sutra]]s comprising one of the major sections into which the Tibetan Canon ([[Kangyur]]) is divided. The majority of the texts are [[Mahayana]] sutras dealing with classic themes such as [[emptiness]], [[compassion]], [[wisdom]], the [[bodhisattva]]'s vows and path.


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

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Ratnakuta (Skt. Ratnakūṭa; Tib. དཀོན་མཆོག་བརྩེགས་པ་, könchok tsekpa, Wyl. dkon mchog brtsegs pa), or 'Heap of Jewels', is a collection of 49 sutras comprising one of the major sections into which the Tibetan Canon (Kangyur) is divided. The majority of the texts are Mahayana sutras dealing with classic themes such as emptiness, compassion, wisdom, the bodhisattva's vows and path.

Further Reading

  • G.C. Chang (ed.), A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras, Pennsylvania State University, 1983
  • K. Priscilla Pederson, 'Notes on the Ratnakūṭa Collection' in Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1980, pp. 60-66

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