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'''The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways''' (Skt. ''Anantamukhapariśodhananirdeśaparivarta''; Tib. སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་བསྟན་པའི་ལེའུ།, [[Wyl.]] ''sgo mtha’ yas pa rnam par sbyong ba bstan pa’i le’u'') consists of an extended discourse presented by the [[Buddha]] to his [[bodhisattva]] disciple Anantavyūha. The instruction consists of a so-called dhāraṇī gateway, a teaching that involves a series of [[dharani|dhāraṇī]] spells, which are interspersed throughout. As a magical formula, a dhāraṇī constitutes a gateway to the infinite qualities of awakening, the [[enlightenment|awakened state]] itself, and the various forms of buddha activity.
'''The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways''' (Skt. ''Anantamukhapariśodhananirdeśaparivarta''; Tib. སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་བསྟན་པའི་ལེའུ།, [[Wyl.]] ''sgo mtha’ yas pa rnam par sbyong ba bstan pa’i le’u'') consists of an extended [[sutra]] presented by the [[Buddha]] to his [[bodhisattva]] disciple Anantavyuha. The instruction consists of a so-called [[dharani]] gateway, a teaching that involves a series of dharani spells, which are interspersed throughout. As a magical formula, a dharani constitutes a gateway to the infinite qualities of awakening, the [[enlightenment|awakened state]] itself, and the various forms of [[enlightened activity|buddha activity]].<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>


==Text==
==Text==
This [[sutra]] ([[Toh]] 46) is the second among forty-nine sutras (Toh 45 to Toh 93) included in the [[Ratnakuta|Heap of Jewels]] collection in the Tibetan [[Kangyur]].
This sutra ([[Toh]] 46) is the second among forty-nine sutras (Toh 45 to Toh 93) included in the [[Ratnakuta|Heap of Jewels]] collection in the Tibetan [[Kangyur]].


*English Translation {{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh46.html|The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways}}
*English Translation {{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh46.html|The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways}}
==References==
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The Chapter Teaching the Purification of Boundless Gateways (Skt. Anantamukhapariśodhananirdeśaparivarta; Tib. སྒོ་མཐའ་ཡས་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བ་བསྟན་པའི་ལེའུ།, Wyl. sgo mtha’ yas pa rnam par sbyong ba bstan pa’i le’u) consists of an extended sutra presented by the Buddha to his bodhisattva disciple Anantavyuha. The instruction consists of a so-called dharani gateway, a teaching that involves a series of dharani spells, which are interspersed throughout. As a magical formula, a dharani constitutes a gateway to the infinite qualities of awakening, the awakened state itself, and the various forms of buddha activity.[1]

Text

This sutra (Toh 46) is the second among forty-nine sutras (Toh 45 to Toh 93) included in the Heap of Jewels collection in the Tibetan Kangyur.

References

  1. ↑ 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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