འཕགས་པ་རྒྱལ་བའ་བླ་གྲས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.9

intro.9

Although there is a direct correspondence in content between the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā­sūtra and this section of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra, a significant difference between the two sūtras is the person speaking the prescribed content. In the Jaya­mati­paripṛcchā­sūtra the prescriptions are delivered by the Buddha to the bodhisatva Jayamati. The Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra, on the other hand, attributes the prescriptions to Jayamati. After Jayamati proclaims the nineteen prescriptions in the Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra, the Buddha responds to Jayamati, corresponding to section 154 of Lamotte’s Śūraṃgama­samādhi­sūtra translation,¹⁴ with a proclamation advocating the practice of the Śūraṃgama­samādhi, emphasizing how this samādhi encompasses and goes beyond the qualities that the bodhisatva Jayamati had declared.