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The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment

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In response to a series of queries from Mañjuśrī, Buddha Śākyamuni first exposes the error that prevents sentient beings in general from transcending saṃsāra, and then focuses more particularly on errors that result from understanding the four truths of the noble ones based on conceptual notions of phenomena. He then goes on to explain how someone wishing to attain liberation should skillfully view the following five sets of qualities: (1) the four truths, (2) the four applications of mindfulness, (3) the eightfold path, (4) the five faculties, and (5) the seven branches of enlightenment.

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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

First published 2019

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འཕགས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

’phags pa byang chub kyi phyogs bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Teaching on the Aids to Enlightenment”

Āryabodhipakṣanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra

· Toh 178 ·

Degé Kangyur, vol. 60 (mdo sde, ma), folios 240.b–244.b
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Jinamitra · Jñānasiddhi · Yeshé Dé

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