འཕགས་པ་ཀན་རྫབ་དང་དན་དམ་པའ་བདན་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.2
Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths intro.2
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Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths is a sūtra significant in the canon of the Great Vehicle, concerned as it is with one of the key themes of Buddhist philosophy, the two truths. These two principles are (1) the relative truth (understanding the world as it appears); and (2) the ultimate truth (understanding the world as it is). Since this bifurcation of reality is one of the frameworks underlying the entirety of Buddhist thought, the message of this sūtra is of importance for all Buddhist traditions, and for the Great Vehicle in particular.