Pratimoksha Sutra

The Pratimoksha Sutra or Sutra of Individual Liberation (Skt. prātimokṣasūtra; Tib. སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་མདོ་, Wyl. so sor thar pa'i mdo) on Vinaya by Shakyamuni Buddha is sutra included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.

Tibetan Text

It was translated into Tibetan by Chokro Lüi Gyaltsen, under the supervision of pandita Jinamitra in the 9th century.

• Kangyur, Vinaya collection, Toh 2, TBRC Profile

Commentaries

• Karmapa Mikyö Dorje (16th c.), so sor thar pa'i mdo yi 'grel pa rin chen 'byung gnas
• Khenpo Shenga (19th-20th c.), སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་མདོ་ཡི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་

Alternative Translations

• Sutra of Individual Emancipation

Quotations

སྡིག་པ་ཅི་ཡང་མི་བྱ་ཞིང༌། །

དགེ་བ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པར་སྤྱད། །
རང་གི་སེམས་ནི་ཡོངས་སུ་འདུལ། །

འདི་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན། །

Commit not a single unwholesome action,
Cultivate a wealth of virtue,
Tame completely this mind of ours—
This is the teaching of the buddhas.

Buddha Shakyamuni, Sutra of Individual Liberation.