Avatamsaka sutra Page
Avatamsaka Sutra (Skt. Avataṃsakasūtra; Tib. མདོ་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་, do palpo ché, Wyl. mdo phal po che) or Buddhavatamsaka Sutra (Skt. Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra), 'The Sutra of the Ornament of the Buddhas' — one of the most important (and largest) of all Mahayana sutras. It includes the Sutra of the Ten Bhumis and the Gandavyuha Sutra, which in turn includes Samantabhadra's Aspiration to Good Actions.
Tibetan Text
The Tibetan version in 45 chapters forms a whole section (named Ornaments of the Buddhas section) of the Sutra section of the Kangyur and spans four volumes.
The text was translated in Tibetan in the 9th century by Surendra and Vairocana Rakṣita.
*Ornaments of the Buddhas section, Toh 44, {{TBRC|O1GS12980%7CO1GS1298001JW13515$W22084|འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, Derge Kangyur, Volumes 35, 36, 37 & 38}}
English Translation
*The Flower Ornament Scripture, translated (from Chinese) by Thomas Cleary (Boston & London: Shambhala, 1987, 1993)
Quotation
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Internal Links
*Sutra of Completely Pure Conduct
External Links
*{{84000|http://read.84000.co/section/O1JC114941JC14666.html|The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Buddhas}}
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh44-31.htmlTen Bhumis is the thirty-first of the forty-five chapters in The Ornaments of the Buddhas}}
*{{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/toh44-37.htmlThe Scale of Life is the thirty-seventh of the forty-five chapters in The Ornaments of the Buddhas}}
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh44-38.html|The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas is the thirty-eighth of the forty-five chapters in The Ornaments of the Buddhas}}
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh44-45.html|The Stem Array is the last of the forty-five chapters in The Ornaments of the Buddhas}}
*[https://www.siddharthasintent.org/resources/recordings/avatamsaka-sutra-2013 Teaching on the Avatamsaka Sutra by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Taipei, 2013]
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