[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) › [Karunapundarikasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika) › 272 # Karunapundarikasutra 272 Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra 272 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [272](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika.272) tau ca kulaputra dvau bodhisattvau taṃ ratnacandraṃ tathāgataṃ paripṛcchate sma / kiyaccirotpāditaṃ bhadanta bhagavāṃstena mahākāruṇikena bodhisattvena mahāsattvena bodhicittaṃ?; kiyacciraṃ bodhicārikāṃ cīrṇavān, yena pañcakaṣāye loke tīvrakleśaraṇe kaliyuge vartamāne kālaḥ (KpSū 288) parigṛhīta ānantaryakārakā yāvadakuśalamūlasamavadhānagatā dagdhasantānāḥ sattvā vaineyāḥ parigṛhītāḥ?" / ratnacandrastathāgata āha - "sāṃprataṃ kulaputra tena mahākāruṇikena prathamacittamutpāditaṃ anuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau / gacchata kulaputra yūyaṃ tat santīraṇaṃ buddhakṣetraṃ tasya ratnagarbhasya tathāgatasyārhataḥ samyaksaṃbuddhasya darśanāya vandanāya paryupāsanāya / taṃ ca samādhānamukhanirdeśaṃ caryāvaiśāradyadharmaparyāyaṃ śroṣyatha / taṃ ca mahākāruṇikaṃ bodhisattvaṃ mahāsattvaṃ madvacanān pṛcchatha; evaṃ ca vadatha, "ratnacandrastathāgatastvāṃ satpuruṣaṃ pṛcchati / idaṃ ca candrarocavimalaṃ puṣpaṃ preṣitavān, sādhukāraścānupradatta / evaṃ ca prathamacittotpādena tvaṃ satpuruṣa mahākāruṇikavyāhāreṇa daśasu dikṣu buddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamāsu lokadhātuṣu buddhakṣetrāṇi śabdenāpūritāni, tena tvayā sarvatra mahākāruṇika nāma pratilabdhaṃ / tena tvaṃ satpuruṣa sādhu bhūyaḥ paścimakānāṃ mahākāruṇikānāṃ bodhisattvānāṃ mahāsattvānāṃ mahākaruṇāvyāhāreṇa praṇidhānanetrīdhvajamucchrayaṇaṃ / tena tvaṃ satpuruṣa (KpSū 289) bhūyo buddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamān anāgatānasaṃkhyeyān kalpān buddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamān daśadiśi lokadhātuṣu yaśaḥkīrtiśabdenāpūraya / yena tvayā bahvasaṃkhyeyasattvakoṭīnayutaśatasahasrāṇyanuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau samādāpitāni niveśitāni pratiṣṭhāpitāni bhagavataḥ sakāśamupanītāni, avaivartikāni sthāpitānyanuttarāyāṃ samyaksaṃbodhau / bhaviṣyanti kecittatra praṇidhānena buddhakṣetraguṇavyūhāṃ parigṛhīṣyanti, ye paścād vyākaraṇaṃ lapsyante, ye tvayā bodhau samādāpitāḥ sarve te paścād yāvad buddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsamāsaṃkhyeyakalpairdaśasu dikṣu buddhakṣetraparamāṇurajaḥsameṣu anyeṣu lokadhātuṣu buddhatvaṃ prāpya dharmacakraṃ pravartayitvā tvāṃ ārabhya varṇaṃ bhāṣiṣyante / anena tṛtīyena kāraṇena te sādhu satpuruṣa" / - [Previous: 271](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika.271) - [Next: 273](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika.273) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སྙིང་རྗེ་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika*bo.230) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika.272](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.karunapundarika.272) · Pramāṇa