The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1)
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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
First published 2021
Current version v 1.1.28
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འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra of Aparimitāyurjñāna
Āryāparimitāyurjñānanāmamahāyānasūtra
· Toh 849 ·
Degé Kangyur, vol. 100 (gzungs ’dus, e), folios 57.a–62.a
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TRANSLATED INTO TIBETAN BY
Patsap Nyima Drak
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People & teachers2
- Mahāsiddha Siddharājñī
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- Rechungpa
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- Mahāyāna movements
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- Mahāyāna
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- Tibetan traditions
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- Vajrayāna · esoteric traditions
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Books1
- How Compassion Works: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating Well-Being, Love, and Wisdom
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Topics1
- Emptiness & not-self
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The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra (1)