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- 08:54, 30 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Teaching on the Inconceivable Scope of a Buddha (Created page with "This sutra, '''The Teaching on the Inconceivable Scope of a Buddha '''(Skt.''Acintyabuddhaviṣayanirdeśa''; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡུལ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''sangs rgyas kyi yul bsam gyis mi khyab pa bstan pa''), takes place during an assembly in Shravasti, when the Buddha requests the bodhisattva Manjushri to give a teaching on the scope of a bud...")
- 08:37, 23 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of Nandika (Created page with "'''The Sutra of Nandika''' (Skt. ''Nandikasūtra''; Tib. དགའ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''dga’ ba can gyi mdo'') consists of a teaching on the negative consequences of breaking the five basic precepts, as taught by the Buddha to the layman Nandika and five hundred other lay practitioners at the Vulture's Peak Mountain in Rajagriha. Ten negative consequences are described as the result of vi...")
- 08:21, 23 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra on the Timings for the Gandi (Created page with "'''The Sutra on the Timings for the Gandi''' (Skt. ''Gaṇḍīsamayasutra''; Tib. གཎ་ཌཱིའི་དུས་ཀྱི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gaN DI’i dus kyi mdo'') is a short instruction given by the Buddha concerning the specific times at which the gandi is to be struck, depending on the month. The timings are given based on the use of a solar clock. The gandi is a long wooden beam that is ritually struck, in a variety of metho...")
- 12:30, 15 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Crest Insignia (2), (Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Crest Insignia (2)''', (Skt. ''Dhvajāgramahāsutra'': Tib. མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག, Wyl. ''mdo chen po rgyal mtshan mchog'') the Buddha instructs his monks on how to overcome their fears by recollecting the qualities of the Buddha through a set of epithets. This is likened to how Shakra rallies his celestial troops with the sight of his military crest insignia. The sutra c...")
- 12:20, 15 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Crest Insignia (1), (Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Crest Insignia (1)''', (Skt. ''Dhvajāgramahāsutra'': Tib. མདོ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་མཆོག, Wyl. ''mdo chen po rgyal mtshan mchog'') a group of merchants from Vaishali, preparing to travel to Takshashila, learn that the Buddha is staying nearby at the monastery of Kutagarashala and offer the Buddha and his monks a midday meal. The Buddha teaches them how to overcome the fears...")
- 12:03, 15 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Ashokadatta’s Prophecy (Created page with "In this sutra, '''Ashokadatta’s Prophecy''', (Skt. Aśoka¬dattāvyākaraṇa: Tib. མྱ་ངན་མེད་ཀྱིས་བྱིན་པ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''mya ngan med kyis byin pa lung bstan pa'') a group of the Buddha’s most eminent shravaka disciples are collecting alms in the city of Rajagriha when they arrive at the palace of King Ajatashatru. There, the king’s daughter Ashokadatta, wh...")
- 11:39, 15 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Good Person (Created page with "This sutra, '''The Good Person''' (Skt. ''Satpuruṣa'': Tib. སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ།, Wyl. ''skyes bu dam pa'') is a short teaching that the Buddha gave whilst staying in Shravasti. He tells of the five ways in which gifts are given and discusses the karmic results of such generosity.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> ==Text== The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the ''...")
- 10:58, 15 October 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations (Created page with "In '''Putting an End to Karmic Obscurations'''(Skt. ''Karmāvaraṇapratipraśrabdhi'': Tib. ལས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྒྱུན་གཅོད་པ།, Wyl. ''las kyi sgrib pa rgyun gcod pa'') the Buddha teaches how to become free of karmic obscurations and accomplish aspirations through through reciting a prayer that should be done three times during the day and three times at night. In that...")
- 09:29, 26 September 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) (Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasutra''; Tib. གསེར་འོད་དམ་པའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gser ’od dam pa’i mdo'') has held great importance in Buddhism for its instructions on the purification of karma. In particular, much of the sutra is specifically addressed to monarchs and thus has been significant for rulers—not only in India but also in China, Japan, Mongolia, and elsewhere—who...")
- 09:12, 26 September 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (2) (Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra''; Tib. གསེར་འོད་དམ་པའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''gser ’od dam pa’i mdo'') has held great importance in Buddhism for its instructions on the purification of karma. In particular, much of the sutra is specifically addressed to monarchs and thus has been significant for rulers—not only in India but also in China, Japan, Mongolia, and elsewhere—w...")
- 08:48, 26 September 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Teaching on Dreams (Created page with "'''The Teaching on Dreams''' (Skt: ''Svapnanirdeśa''; Tib. རྨི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''rmi lam bstan pa'') records the Buddha’s description of one hundred and eight signs that may appear to bodhisattvas in their dreams. These signs indicate not only that those individuals are bodhisattvas, but also the range of bhumis on which those bodhisattvas potentially reside, what obstacles they face, and what means they c...")
- 20:14, 20 August 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Essence of the True Nature of Things (Created page with "This sutra, a short philosophical discourse, '''Appearing Differently to All While Not Departing from Emptiness, the Essence of the True Nature of Things''' (Skt. ''Dharmatāsvabhāvaśūnyatācalapratisarvāloka''; Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ལས་མི་གཡོ་བར་ཐ་དད་པར་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སྣང་བའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''chos nyid rang gi ngo...")
- 09:56, 3 August 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Verses for Prasenajit (Created page with "In '''Verses for Prasenajit''' (Skt. ''Prasenajidgāthā''; Tib. གསལ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་ཚིགས་བཅད།, Wyl. ''gsal rgyal gyi tshigs su bcad pa'') the Buddha proclaims the benefits of constructing, beautifying, maintaining, and worshipping the stupas and images of awakened beings who have passed away.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> ==Text== The Tibetan translation of this sutra...")
- 07:48, 2 August 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Verses on Circumambulating Shrines (Created page with "In the sutra, '''The Verses on Circumambulating Shrines''' (Skt. ''Caityapradakṣiṇagāthā''; Tib. མཆོད་རྟེན་བསྐོར་བའི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ།, Wyl. ''mchod rten bskor ba'i tshigs sub cad pa'') the Buddha responds to a question from Shariputra, and extols the benefits that result from the practice of circumambulating shrines, that is, walking around them while keeping them on the...")
- 06:38, 5 July 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Appearing Differently to All While Not Departing from Emptiness, the Essence of the True Nature of Things (Created page with "This short philosophical discourse, '''Appearing Differently to All While Not Departing from Emptiness, the Essence of the True Nature of Things''' (Skt. ''Dharmatāsvabhāvaśūnyatācalapratisarvāloka''; Tib. ཆོས་ཉིད་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ལས་མི་གཡོ་བར་ཐ་དད་པར་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སྣང་བ།‘ Wyl. ''chos nyid rang gi ngo bo stong pa nyid las mi g...")
- 10:20, 3 July 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Exemplary Tale of Sumagadha (Created page with "'''The Exemplary Tale of Sumagadha''' (Skt. ''Sumāgadhāvadāna''; Tib. མ་ག་དྷཱ་བཟང་མོའི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ།, Wyl. ''ma ga d+hA bzang mo'i rtogs pa brjod pa'') opens at Prince Jeta's Grove, Anathapindada’s Park, in Shravasti where the Buddha is staying. At the time, Anathapindada's daughter Sumagadha is married off to Vrsabhadatta, the son of a nirgranth...")
- 10:15, 27 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The City Beggar Woman (Created page with "This short Mahayana sutra, '''The City Beggar Woman''' (Skt. ''Nagarāvalambikā''; Tib. གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱིས་འཚོ་བ།, Wyl. ''grong khyer gyis 'tsho ba'') tells of a beggar woman from the city of Shravasti whose modest offering of a lamp at Prince Jeta's Grove, Anathapindada’s Park, is contrasted with the lavish offering of lamps being made at the same time by Prasenajit, who was the king of Kosala...")
- 08:24, 23 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of Dharmaketu (Created page with "'''The Sutra of Dharmaketu''' (Skt. ''Dharmaketusutra''; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''chos kyi rgyal mtshan gyi mdo'') also known as '''Dharmaketu’s Question''', is among the shortest sutras in the Kangyur. While the Buddha Shakyamuni is staying at Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anathapindada’s Park in Shravasti, a bodhisattva named Dharmaketu asks him what qual...")
- 12:10, 19 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Advice to a King (2) (Created page with "In this sutra, '''Advice to a King (2)''' (Skt. ''Rājadeśa''; Tib. རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གདམས་པ།, Wyl. ''rgyal po la gdams pa'') while giving teachings at Varanasi, the Buddha Shakyamuni discerns that the time is right to train King Udayana of Vatsa. When he meets the king, who at the time is embarking on a military expedition, the king flies into a rage and tries to kill the Buddha with an arrow. However, the arrow circles in the...")
- 11:53, 19 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Advice to a King (1) (Created page with "In this sutra, '''Advice to a King (1)''' (Skt. ''Rājadeśa''; Tib. རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གདམས་པ།, Wyl. ''gyal po la gdam pa'') , discerning that the time is right to train King Bimbisara, the Buddha Shakyamuni goes to Magadha, along with his entourage. The king is hostile at first but when his attack on the Buddha is thwarted and a verse on impermanence is heard, he becomes respectful. In the discourse that ensues, the Buddha t...")
- 15:36, 5 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Acceptance That Tames Beings with the Sky-Coloured Method of Perfect Conduct (Created page with "In '''The Acceptance That Tames Beings with the Sky-Coloured Method of Perfect Conduct''', (Skt. ''Samyagācāravṛttagaganavarṇavinayakṣānti''; Tib. ཡང་དག་པར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཚུལ་ནམ་མཁའི་མདོག་གིས་འདུལ་བའི་བཟོད་པ།, Wyl. ''yang dag par spyod pa’i tshul nam mkha’i mdog gis ’dul ba’i bzod pa'') the Buddha Shakyamuni and several bodhisattvas deli...")
- 09:15, 5 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Questions of the Naga King Anavatapta (Created page with "'''The Questions of the Naga King Anavatapta''' (Skt. ''Anavataptanāgarājaparipṛcchā''; Tib. ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མ་དྲོས་པས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''klu’i rgyal po ma dros pas zhus pa'') is a discourse that provides guidance on core features of the bodhisattva path, including the perfections, mindfulness, and meditation, with a strong orientation toward emptiness as the inexpressible ultim...")
- 08:52, 5 June 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Prajñavarman (Created page with "'''Prajñavarman''' (Skt. ''prajñāvarman''; Tib. པྲཛྙ་བརྨ།, Wyl. ''pradz+nya barma'') was an Indian Bengali pandita resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Arriving in Tibet on an invitation from the Tibetan king, he assisted in the translation of numerous canonical scriptures. He is also the author of a few philosophical commentaries contained in the Tibetan Tengyur collection. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of t...")
- 09:28, 31 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Four Boys’ Absorption (Created page with "'''The Four Boys’ Absorption''' (Skt. ''Caturdārakasamādhi''; Tib. ཁྱེའུ་བཞིའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན།, Wyl. ''khye’u bzhi’i ting nge ’dzin'') narrates the Buddha Shakyamuni’s passing away (or parinirvana) in the Yamakashala Grove near Kushinagara. Ananda has a portentous dream that is confirmed by the Buddha to be an indication that he will soon die. Widespread panic spreads through the various realms...")
- 18:30, 25 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Benefits of the Five Precepts (Created page with "In the first of the two parts of the sutra, (Skt. ''Pañcaśikṣānuśaṃsa''; Tib. བསླབ་པ་ལྔའི་ཕན་ཡོན།, [[Wyl. ''bslab pa lnga’i phan yon'') '''The Benefits of the Five Precepts''', a man and woman who have been married since they were very young and have never been unfaithful to each other ask the Buddha how they can remain together in future lives. The Buddha replies that this is possible for couples...")
- 09:10, 18 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Questions of Gangottara (Created page with "In '''The Questions of Gangottara''' (Skt. ''Gaṅgottaraparipṛcchā''; Tib. གང་གཱའི་མཆོག་གིས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''gang gA’i mchog gis zhus pa'') a laywoman named Gangottara leaves her home in the city of Shravasti and visits the Buddha Shakyamuni in Anathapindada's Park. The Buddha asks her from where she has come, sparking a dialogue on the true nature of things. Among other things, they discuss the fact that, fro...")
- 08:46, 18 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Prophecy for Bhadra the Illusionist (Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Prophecy for Bhadra the Illusionist''' (Skt. ''Bhadramāyākāravyākaraṇa''; Tib. ་མ་མཁན་བཟང་པོ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''sgyu ma mkhan bzang po lung bstan pa'') while the Buddha Shakyamuni is residing at Vulture's Peak Mountain, in the nearby city of Rajagṛiha the accomplished illusionist Bhadra hatches a scheme to humiliate the Buddha and disprove his omniscience in order to win...")
- 12:12, 10 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (Created page with "King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (Skt. ''Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchā''; Tib. བད་སའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཆར་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bad sa'i rgyal po 'char byed kyis zhus pa'') is a cautionary discourse on the dangers of sense desires and the consequences of acting on them. In this work, King Udayana is driven into a murderous rage by the jealous Queen Anupama, King Udayana launches a barrage of arrows...")
- 10:02, 5 May 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Prediction for Brahmashri (Created page with "'''The Prediction for Brahmashri''' (Skt. ''Brahmaśrīvyākaraṇa''; Tib. ཚངས་པའི་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''tshangs pa’i dpal lung bstan pa'') is a short dialogue that features an encounter between the Buddha, out on his daily alms round, and a group of children playing on the outskirts of Shravasti. One precocious boy named Brahmashri offers the Buddha the pavilion he has made of sand or dirt....")
- 14:03, 19 April 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Vitarka mudra (Created page with "'''Vitarka mudra''' is a symbolic, ritualistic hand gesture used in Buddhism, Hinduism, and yoga. The term comes from the Sanskrit, vitarka, meaning “reasoning,” “consideration” or “deliberation”; and mudra, meaning “closure,” “mark” or “seal.” Vitarka mudra is also known as the “gesture of debate” or the “discussion mudra.” Category: Key Terms Category: Mudras")
- 11:36, 19 April 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Vishvabhu (Created page with "'''Vishvabu''' (Skt. ''Viśvabhū''; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ།, Wyl. ''thams cad skyob''), is the third of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 11:31, 19 April 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Vipashyin (Created page with "'''Vipshyin''' (Skt. ''vipaśyin''; Tib. རྣམ་པར་གཟིགས།, Wyl. ''rnam par gzigs'') is the first of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 10:41, 19 April 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman (Created page with "This sutra, '''The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman''' (Skt. ''Śrīmatībrāhmaṇīparipṛcchā''; Tib. བྲམ་ཟེ་མོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bram ze mo dpal ldan mas zhus pa'') presents a dialogue between the Buddha Shakyamuni and a brahmin woman called Shrimati whom he encounters while collecting alms in the city of Varanasi. Inspired by the Buddha’s majestic and graceful presence, Shrimati inq...")
- 07:46, 14 April 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Like Gold Dust (Created page with "This sutra, '''Like Gold Dust''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇavālukopamā''; Tib. གསེར་གྱི་བྱེ་མ་ལྟ་བུ།, Wyl. ''gser gyi bye ma lta bu'') presents a short dialogue between Ananda and the Buddha on the theme of limitlessness. In response to Ananda’s persistent inquiries, the Buddha uses analogies to illustrate both the limitlessness of the miraculous abilities acquired by realized beings, and the limitle...")
- 10:51, 23 March 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha (Created page with "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 Budd...")
- 10:59, 3 March 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page Anathapindada’s Park (Created page with "'''Anathapindada’s Park''' (Tib. མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན་གྱི་ཀུན་དགའ་ར་བ།, Wyl. ''mgon med zas sbyin gyi kun dga' ra ba'') was an important early site for the Buddha's growing community. Anathapindada, a wealthy patron of the Buddha, purchased the park, located outside Shravasti, at great cost, purportedly covering the ground with gold, and donated it to the sangha. It was t...")
- 10:28, 3 March 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Shorter Devata Sutra (Created page with "In '''The Shorter Devata Sutra''' (Skt. ''Alpadevatāsūtra''; Tib. ལྷའི་མདོ་ཉུང་ངུ།, Wyl. ''lha'i mdo nyung ngu''), while staying in Shravasti, the Buddha is approached by an unnamed “divine being,” who inquires as to what behaviour merits rebirth in the higher realms. In response, the Buddha explains, in a series of concise and powerful verses, that abandoning each of the ten unwholesome act...")
- 10:13, 3 March 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Devata Sutra (Created page with "In '''The Devata Sutra''' (Skt. ''Devatāsūtra''; Tib. ལྷའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''lha'i mdo'') a radiant divine being appears before the Buddha shortly before dawn and asks a series of questions, in the form of riddles, about how best to live a good life. The Buddha’s responses constitute a concise and direct teaching on some of the core orientations and values of Buddhism, touching on the three poisons, the virtues of body, spee...")
- 15:58, 24 February 2024 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva (Created page with "In '''The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva''' (Skt. ''Bodhisatvapiṭaka''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད།, Wyl. ''byang chub sems dpa'i sdo snod''), the Buddha describes in detail the views and practices that are to be followed by the bodhisatva, the ideal Mahayana practitioner. Through his interactions with human and nonhuman interlocutors, and through stories of...")
- 12:17, 19 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page Ayurveda (Created page with "'''Ayurveda''' (Skt. ''āyurveda''; Tib. ཤེས་པ།, Wyl. ''shes pa'') is the classical system of Indian medicine and has eight branches <ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref> ==References== <small><references/></small> ==External Links== {{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh555.html| The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light }} Category: Terms")
- 12:44, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Mahamaya Tantra (Created page with "'''The Mahamaya Tantra''' (Skt. ''Mahāmāyātantra''; Tib. སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོའི་རྒྱུད།, Wyl. ''sgyu ‘phrul chen mo’i rgyud''), named after its principal deity Mahamaya, is a tantra of the Yoginitantra class in which Mahamaya presides over a mandala populated primarily by yoginis and dakinis. The tantra promises the grace of Mahamaya in the form of mundane and transcendent spiritual attainmen...")
- 12:28, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page Equal to the Sky (Created page with "'''Equal to the Sky''' (Skt. ''Khasama''; Tib. ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པ།‘ Wyl. ''nam mkha’ dang mnyam pa'') belongs to a series of texts known as the ''rali'' tantras, which are primarily associated with the Chakrasamvara system but incorporate themes that are also prominent in the Hevajra and Kalachakra systems. The tantra presents a discourse in which the Buddha addresses...")
- 12:14, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page Emergence from Samputa (Created page with "The tantra '''Emergence from Sampuṭa'''(Skt. ''Sampuṭodbhavaḥ''; Tib. ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བ།, Wyl. ''yang dag par sbyor ba'') is an all-inclusive compendium of Buddhist theory and practice as taught in the Father and the Mother tantras. Dating probably to the end of the tenth century, the bulk of the tantra consists of a variety of earlier material, stretching back in time and in the doxographical hierarchy to the Guhyasamaja...")
- 12:01, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page Summary of Empowerment (Created page with "'''The Summary of Empowerment''' (Skt. ''Sekoddeśa''; Tib. དབང་མདོར་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''dbang mdor bstan pa'') is considered to be the only extant portion of the root text of the Kalachakra Tantra. According to the Buddhist tantric tradition, it was transmitted by the Buddha in his emanation as Kalachakra, to Sucandra, the first king of Shambhala. The text’s 174 verses cover a wide range of topics. After a sho...")
- 10:09, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of the Moon (2) (Created page with "'''The Sūtra of the Moon (2)''' (Skt. ''Candrasūtra''; Tib. ཟླ་བའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''zla ba’i mdo'') is a short text that presents a Buddhist description of a lunar eclipse. On one occasion, while the Buddha s residing in Campā, the moon is covered by Rahu, lord of the asuras, which causes an eclipse. The god of the moon asks the Buddha for refuge, after which the Buddha urges Rahu to release the moon. Seein...")
- 08:44, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of the Moon (1) (Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Moon (1)''' (Skt. ''Candrasūtra''; Tib. ཟླ་བའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''zla ba’i mdo'') is a short discourse providing a Buddhist account of a lunar eclipse. On one occasion while the Buddha is residing in Shravasti, the moon is seized by Rahu, lord of the asuras, which causes an eclipse. The god of the moon asks the Buddha for refuge, after which the Buddha urges Rahu to release the moon. When q...")
- 08:32, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Sutra of the Sun (Created page with "'''The Sutra of the Sun''' (Skt. ''Sūryasūtra''; Tib. ཉི་མའི་མདོ།, Wyl. ''nyi ma’i mdo'') is a short discourse providing a Buddhist account of a solar eclipse. On one occasion while the Buddha is residing in Shravasti, the sun is seized by Rahu, lord of the asuras, which causes an eclipse. The god of the sun asks the Buddha for refuge, after which the Buddha urges Rahu to release the sun. When questioned by V...")
- 08:10, 10 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand Lines (Created page with "'''The Long Explanation of the Noble Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand, Twenty-Five Thousand, and Eighteen Thousand Lines''' (Skt. ''Āryaśatasāhasrikāpañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitābṛhaṭṭīkā''; Tib. འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་འབུམ་པ་དང་། ཉི་ཁྲི་ལྔ་སྟོང་པ་དང་། ཁྲི་བ...")
- 14:51, 7 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page Praising the Lady Who Rules Disease (Created page with "'''Praising the Lady Who Rules Disease''' (Tib. ནད་ཀྱི་བདག་མོ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ།; Wyl. ''nad kyi bdag mo la bstod pa''), or, as it...")
- 11:49, 2 October 2023 Tsondru talk contribs created page An Explanation of The Noble Sutra on the Four Factors (Created page with "This short commentary, '''An Explanation of The Noble Sutra on the Four Factors''' (Tib. འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤ...")