The Samantabhadra Perfection of Wisdom

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In this sutra, The Samantabhadra Perfection of Wisdom ( Skt. Samantabhadraprajñāpāramitā; Tib. འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, Wyl. sherab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa kun tun bzang po theg pa chen po’i mdo), in a retreat place in Magadha, the Buddha Shakyamuni and the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, surrounded by many bodhisattvas, perform miracles in a state of meditative absorption. The bodhisattva Samantabhadra asks the Buddha to distinguish between two levels of the perfection of wisdom. In response, the Buddha Shakyamuni gives definitions of these two levels.

It is one of five prajñaparamita sutras associated with five bodhisattva figures, namely, Suryagarbha, Candragarbha, Samantabhadra, Vajrapani, and Vajraketu. [1]

Text

The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the Perfection of Wisdom section of the Tibetan Dergé Kangyur, Toh 28

References

  1. 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.