Praśāntaviniścayaprātihāryasamādhi

Praśāntaviniścayaprātihāryasamādhi (T. rab tu zhi ba rnam par nges pa’i cho ’phrul gyi ting nge ’dzin རབ་ཏུ་ཞི་བ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པའི་ཆོ་འཕྲུལ་གྱི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན།). "The Absorption of the Miraculous Ascertainment of Peace".

A Mahāyāna sūtra that is one of the samādhi sūtras and also counted amoung group of sutras associated with tathāgatagarbha.

Title variations

• Praśāntaviniścayaprātihāryasamādhi (T. rab tu zhi ba rnam par nges pa’i cho ’phrul gyi ting nge ’dzin)
• Praśāntaviniścayaprātihārya-nāma-samādhi-sūtra
• Ārya-praśāntaviniścayaprātihārya-nāma-samādhi-mahāyānasūtra (T. ’phags pa rab tu zhi ba rnam par nges pa’i cho ’phrul gyi ting nge ’dzin zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo)

Summary

The Dharmachakra Translation Committee states:

In this sūtra the Buddha Śākyamuni teaches how bodhisattvas proceed to awakening, without ever regressing, by relying on an absorption known as the miraculous ascertainment of peace. He lists the very numerous features of this absorption, describes how to train in it, and explains how through this training bodhisattvas develop all the qualities of buddhahood. The “peace” of the absorption comes from the relinquishment of misconceptions and indeed of all concepts whatsoever, and the sūtra provides a profound and detailed survey of how all the abilities, attainments, and other qualities of the bodhisattva’s path arise as the bodhisattva’s understanding and realization of what is meant by the Thus-Gone One unfold.

Translation

• The Absorption of the Miraculous Ascertainment of Peace, 84000 Collection