The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions
Translation of འཕགས་པ་འད་ཤས་བཅ་གཅག་བསྟན་པའ་མད (འཕགས་པ་འདུ་ཤེས་བཅུ་གཅིག་བསྟན་པའི་མདོ)
- Language
- English
- Date
- 2020 CE
- Translator
- samye-translations-lowell-cook-stefan-mang
- Extent
- 8 passages, 150 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- lotsawahouse · Samye Translations; Lowell Cook; Stefan Mang (tr.), The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions, Lotsawa… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site
Contents
Text
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The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions
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from the Words of the Buddha
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In the language of India: Āryasaṃjñānaikādaśanirdeśasūtra
In the language of Tibet: Pakpa düshé chuchik tenpé do (’phags pa ’du shes bcu gcig bstan pa’i mdo)
[In the English language: The Noble Sūtra Teaching the Eleven Perceptions]
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Homage to the Three Jewels!
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Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was dwelling in the dwelling in the Grove of Twin Sāl-Trees in the vicinity of the Malla town of Kuśinagara. As the time came for his mahāparinirvāṇa, he addressed the monks:
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“O monks, at the time of death, a monk should engender the eleven perceptions. What are these eleven? They are:
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As soon as the Blessed One had said this, all the monks rejoiced and praised the words of the Blessed One. This completes Teaching the Eleven Perceptions, the final testament of the Blessed One.
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