Prātimokṣasūtra
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Prātimokṣasūtra (T. so sor thar pa'i mdo སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་མདོ་; C. Jie ben 戒本) is a sutra of the Sanskrit Vinaya tradition that "provides a separate listing of the code of conduct and monastic rules (prātimokṣa) for monks (bhikkhu) and nuns (bhikkhuni)."[1]
In Tibetan Buddhism, this text is included among the "thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most Nyingma and Sakya shedras.
Tibetan Text
It was translated into Tibetan by Chokro Lüi Gyaltsen, under the supervision of pandita Jinamitra in the 9th century.[2][3]
- Kangyur, Vinaya collection, Toh 2,
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Commentaries
- Karmapa Mikyö Dorje (16th c.), so sor thar pa'i mdo yi 'grel pa rin chen 'byung gnas
- Khenpo Shenga (19th-20th c.), སོ་སོར་ཐར་པའི་མདོ་ཡི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་
Quotations
The text includes the following quotation:[3]
Commit not a single unwholesome action,
Cultivate a wealth of virtue,
Tame completely this mind of ours—
This is the teaching of the buddhas.
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Prātimokṣasūtra
- ↑
Prātimokṣasūtra, 84000 Collection
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Pratimoksha Sutra, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
