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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. The majority of the texts are [[Mahayana]] sutras dealing with classic themes such as [[emptiness]], [[compassion]], [[wisdom]], the [[bodhisattva]]'s vows and path.
'''Ratnakuta''' (Skt. ''Ratnakūṭa''; Tib. [[དཀོན་མཆོག་བརྩེགས་པ་]], ''könchok tsekpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''dkon mchog brtsegs pa''), or 'Heap of Jewels', is a collection of 49 independent [[sutra]]s comprising one of the major sections ([[Toh]] 45-93) 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.
 
Many of the sutras of this collection are individually cited in the [[shastra|treatises]] of the great Indian masters and are known to have circulated as sutras in their own right; only five are still extant in Sanskrit. This collection is also present in the Chinese [[Tripitaka]].


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*G.C. Chang (ed.), ''A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras'', Pennsylvania State University, 1983
*G.C. Chang (ed.), ''A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras'', Pennsylvania State University, 1983
*Jan Nattier, ''A Few Good Men: the Bodhisattva Path According to The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā)'', University of Hawaii Press (2003)
*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
*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
==Internal Links==
*[[Adhyasayasamcodana Sutra]]
*[[Amitabhavyuha Sutra]]
*[[The Questions of Bhadrapala the Merchant]]
*[[The Question of Maitreya]]
*[[The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities]]
*[[Sutra on the Inconceivable Secret]]
*[[The Teaching on the Indivisible Nature of the Realm of Phenomena]]
*[[The Questions of Purna]]
*[[The Sutra of the Question of Subahu]]
*[[The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways]]
*[[The Exposition on the Universal Gateway]]
*[[The Questions of Gunaratnasankusumita]]


==External Links==
==External Links==

Revision as of 13:27, 25 November 2020

Ratnakuta (Skt. Ratnakūṭa; Tib. དཀོན་མཆོག་བརྩེགས་པ་, könchok tsekpa, Wyl. dkon mchog brtsegs pa), or 'Heap of Jewels', is a collection of 49 independent sutras comprising one of the major sections (Toh 45-93) 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.

Many of the sutras of this collection are individually cited in the treatises of the great Indian masters and are known to have circulated as sutras in their own right; only five are still extant in Sanskrit. This collection is also present in the Chinese Tripitaka.

Further Reading

  • G.C. Chang (ed.), A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras, Pennsylvania State University, 1983
  • Jan Nattier, A Few Good Men: the Bodhisattva Path According to The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā), University of Hawaii Press (2003)
  • 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

External Links