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  1. The Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on the Essential Wisdom of the Great (佛說大乘方等要慧經)
  2. Mahayana Comprehensive Wisdom Sutra (大乘方等要慧經)

The Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on the Essential Wisdom of the Great (佛說大乘方等要慧經)

About 佛說大乘方等要慧經

Later Han · Source text translated by 安世高

296 · about 1 min

The Sutra on the Essential Wisdom of the Great Vehicle, Expounded by the Buddha, translated by the Eastern Han dynasty translator An Shigao, is one of the important early scriptures of Chinese Buddhism. This sutra belongs to the Vaipulya category of Mahayana scriptures, emphasizing the practice of prajñā wisdom and the bodhisattva path, elucidating the emptiness of all phenomena and the principle of equality. It guides practitioners to transcend discrimination and attachment through the illumination of wisdom, thereby realizing ultimate reality. This sutra holds a pivotal position in Buddhist history, bridging earlier and later developments, laying the foundation for the early spread of Mahayana Buddhism in China, and exerting a profound influence on the development of the bodhisattva path in the Chinese Buddhist tradition.


佛說大乘方等要慧經

Essential Wisdom Sutra of the Mahayana

後漢安息國三藏安世高譯

Translation by An Shigao, Tripitaka Master from Parthia, Later Han Dynasty

聞如是:
一時佛遊於舍衛國,爾時彌勒菩薩叉手白佛言:

Once, the Buddha was traveling in the country of Shravasti. At that time, the Bodhisattva Maitreya, with his palms together, said to the Buddha:

「世尊!我欲小有所問,若世尊聽所問者乃敢陳之。」
佛言:「若有所疑便問,吾當為汝解說,使意歡喜。」
彌勒問言:「云何菩薩摩訶薩不退轉法,於大乘有進而不耗減,行菩薩道並降伏魔怨,如其狀貌,悉還教知諸法根之相,不厭於生死,自有正慧不從他受,疾成無上一切智地?」
世尊讚曰:「善哉!善哉!所問隨順,甚善大佳,吾當為汝解說菩薩所得之行,踰於所問。諦聽!善思念之!」於是彌勒受教,一心靜聽。
佛告彌勒:「菩薩有八法具足,疾逮得無上一切智地。何謂為八?一者、內性清淨。二者、所行成就。三者、所施成就。四者、所願成就。五者、慈成就。六者、悲成就。七者、善權成就。八者、智慧成就。是為八事。菩薩疾逮得無上一切智。」
彌勒菩薩及諸眾會皆歡喜。
大乘方等要慧經

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