The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha

In The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha (Skt. Bodhisattvaprātimokṣacatuṣkanirhāra; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་སྒྲུབ་པ།, Wyl. byang chub sems dpa’i so sor thar pa chos bzhi sgrub pa), Venerable Shariputra requests the Buddha Shakyamuni to explain the conduct of bodhisattvas. The Buddha responds by describing how bodhisattvas train in many practices and in the cultivation of many qualities, here presented in sets of four, related to generosity and diligence in particular, and more broadly to their attitude, conduct, learning, insight, and teaching. In this way bodhisattvas swiftly progress along the path to buddhahood.

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The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section of the Tibetan Dergé Kangyur, Toh 248

• English translation: The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimokṣa

External Links

• The Sūtra Teaching the Four Factors
• The Four Factors
• The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Four Factors
• The Fourfold Accomplishment