The Questions of Purna

The Noble Great Vehicle Sutra “The Questions of Purna” (Skt. Āryapūrṇaparipṛcchānāmamahāyānasūtra (Pūrṇaparipṛcchā); Tib. འཕགས་པ་གང་གང་པོས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། (གང་པོས་ཞུས་པ།), Wyl. ’phags pa gang pos zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo) — a sutra where the monk Purna asks the Buddha questions related to the conduct of a bodhisattva; there are eight chapters in the sutra related to that.

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This sutra (Toh 61) is the seventeenth sutra among the forty-nine sutras (Toh 45 to Toh 93) in the Heap of Jewels collection in the Tibetan Kangyur .

• English Translation: The Questions of Pūrṇa