[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Dharmaskandha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo) › [The Sections of Dharma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000) › intro.1 # འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཀྱ་ཕང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.1 The Sections of Dharma intro.1 - **Language:** English ### [intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.intro.1) In this sūtra some of Buddha Śākyamuni’s senior disciples request a teaching on the nature of “the sections of Dharma.” The Buddha responds by first delivering a teaching on the absence of birth with regard to phenomena, as an antidote to the poison of desire. On that basis, the Buddha then presents a longer explanation of the repulsiveness of the human body, and of the female body in particular. - [Next: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.dharmaskandha*bo~en-84000.intro.1) · Pramāṇa