Mahāratnakūta Sūtra Heap of Jewels Overview
Mahāratnakūta Sūtra Heap of Jewels Overview
Mahāratnakūta Sūtra the Heap of Jewels Collection given a Overview
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“The Heap of Jewels Sūtra" - Ratnakūta Sūtra of which 49 of 100,000 chapters remain.
This basic orientation framework was compiled by ‘By A Customer UK’ on Amazon.com and imposed by me n the Table of Contents from Chang, G.C.C. ed., 2008. A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra annotated ed., Pennsylvania State University Press. [and then augmented slightly by Richard Kennaway's web page on Sūtras, with some more notations on my part from web searches and such.]
PS: I won't list what they DIDN'T put in. You're happier not knowing.
From ‘By A Customer UK’ in Amazon.com:
The Mahāratnakūta Sūtra in the Chinese canon is not one Sūtra, but a collection of forty nine different Sūtras, twenty two of which are translated in this volume, arranged under eight headings.
With this many Sūtras translated, they are not all of equal value or interest.
Notable among them are the Kashyapa-parivarta, certainly one of the oldest Mahayana Sūtras, the Saptashatika-prajnaparamita, the Perfection of Wisdom in 700 lines, the Srimaladevi-simhananda and the large Sukhavati-vyuha describing the Pure Land of Amitabha.
One criticism is that the titles of the Sūtras are given in Chinese and English only, and not in Sanskrit. This can make titles difficult to recognize; for example the Vimaladatta-pariprccha (= Questions of Vimaladatta) is called "A Discourse on Ready Eloquence". The review in Middle Way v55/1 May 1984 gives a list of Sanskrit titles for the whole volume. These are below, with the eight group headings, which give some idea of the large range of topics covered.
Note:
• The Bodhisattva's Confession of Ethical Downfalls: Prostrations to the Thirty-Five Buddhas was extracted from the chapter 24, “The Definitive Vinaya”, found in the Sutra of the Three Heaps (Sanskrit: Triskandhadharmasutra; Tib. phung po gsum pa'i mdo), which itself is part of the larger Stack of Jewels Sutra (Sanskrit: Ratnakutasutra; Tib. dkon mchog brtsegs pa'i mdo).
This Mahayana sutra actually describes a practice of purification by confession and making prostrations to these Buddhas. [
• Maitreya’s Prayer itself was extracted from the forty-first chapter of the Stack of Jewels Sutra
• And [from the wiki] : it is interesting how well represented the first translations of some early Mahāyāna sūtras by the Kuṣāṇa monk Lokakṣema are here in the Ratnakuta - translations made in the Chinese capital of Luoyang between 178 and 189 CE.
1. Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra
2. Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra
3. Akṣobhyatathāgatasyavyūha Sūtra
4. Ugraparipṛccha Sūtra
5. Mañjuśrīparipṛcchā Sūtra
6. Drumakinnararājaparipṛcchā Sūtra
7. Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sūtra
8. Bhadrapāla Sūtra
9. Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana Sūtra
10. Kāśyapaparivarta Sūtra
11. Lokānuvartana Sūtra
12. An early sūtra connected to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra
I Maya and Miracles
Sutra 21 Chapter in Treasury Bhadra-mayakara-vyakarana
The Bhadramayakaravyakarana (Introd., Tibetan text, Tr. And Notes,)authored by Konstanty Regamey.
II Emptiness
Sutra 35 Chapter in Treasury Acintya-buddha-vishaya-nirdesha
The negative, hi shiryo, typically suggests a state beyond such discriminatory thinking -- as used, e.g., to describe the "unconditioned" (wu-wei), "inconceivable" (pu ssu-i) nature of the Buddha's cognition (Wenshushili suo shuo busiyi fo jingjie jing *Acintya-buddha-vishaya-nirdesha, T.12:108a-b]).
Sutra 31 Chapter in Treasury Gangottara-pariprccha
Gangottarapariprccha(satra) (in Korean canon)
Sutra 36 Chapter in Treasury Susthitamati-(devaputra)-pariprccha
4.9.5. Susthitamati-pariprccha (Questions of the god Well-Abiding Mind) Also known as "The Sūtra of How to Kill with the Sword of Wisdom".
Sutra 33 Chapter in Treasury Vimaladatta-pariprccha
4.9.3. Vimaladatta-pariprccha (Questions of the Princess Pure Giving)
Sutra 46 Chapter in Treasury Saptashatika-prajnaparamita
4.1.7. Saptasatika-prajnaparamita Sūtra (The Perfection of Wisdom in 700 lines, or The Perfection of Wisdom as taught by Manjusri)
Sutra 32 Chapter in Treasury Ashokadatta-vyakarana
4.9.4. Asokadatta-vyakarana (Sorrowless Giving's Prediction to Buddhahood)
Sutra 10 Chapter in Treasury 8 Samantamukha-parivarta
Chapter 25, `The Universal Gate of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara' (Skt.: Samantamukha-parivarta XXIV), which describes the blessings of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, was circulated in China and Japan as an independent Sūtra and is still recited today. It is also a well-known fact that the chant, or daimoku, of the Nichiren School of Japan and related sects consists of the invocation na-mu added to the Japanese title of this Sūtra, resulting in Na-mu-myou-hou-ren-ge-kyou.
Sutra 20] Chapter in Treasury # 9 Vidyutprapta-pariprccha
4.9.2. Vidyutprapta-pariprccha (Questions of the Bodhisattva Lightning Attainment)
Sutra Chapter in Treasury Manjushri-buddha-kshetra-guna-vyuha
4.8.5. Manjusri-Buddhaksetra-guna-vyuha
Describes the "array of excellences" of the domain of the Bodhisattva Manjusri.
III The Light of the Tathagata
Sutra Chapter in Treasury #11 Rashmisamantamukta-nirdesha
rashmisamantamuktanirdesha(Sūtra) K 22(11)
IV Consciousness
Sutra 32 Chapter in Treasury Bhadrapala-shresthi-pariprccha
4.9.10. Bhadramayakara-pariprccha (Questions of Bhadra the Magician)Concerning magic.
V Virtue and Discipline
Sutra 27 Chapter in Treasury Surata-pariprccha
4.9.6. Surata-pariprccha (Questions of the Bodhisattva Surata) Also known as the Surata Sūtra.
Sutra 30 Chapter in Treasury Sumati-darika-pariprccha
4.9.7. Sumatidarika-pariprccha (Questions of the Girl Sumati)
Sutra 24 Chapter in Treasury (Vinaya-vinishcaya)-upali-pariprccha
4.9.8. Upali-pariprccha (Questions of the Arhat Upali)
Sutra 44 Chapter in Treasury Ratnarasi
Describes solitary forest saints, amongst else.
VI Pure Lands
Sutra 06 Chapter in Treasury Aksobhya-tathagatasya-vyuha
4.8.1. Aksobhya-vyuha
Devoted to the praises of Abhirati, the Land of Exceeding Great Delight.
Sutra 05 Chapter in Treasury Amitabha-vyuha (= Large Sukhavati-vyuha)
[4.7.1. Sukhavati-vyuha (Array of the Happy Land)]
VII Mahayana Doctrine
Sutra 48 Chapter in Treasury Srimala-devi-simhananda
4.8.4. Srimaladevi-simhananda (Queen Srimala's Asseveration (literally, "Lion-Roar"))
Sutra 43 Chapter in Treasury Kashyapa-parivarta
Jigme Lingpa recommends this text for finding a good guru by knowing what to look for! p. 255 Treasury of Precious Qualities
Sutra 45 Chapter in Treasury Aksayamati-pariprccha
4.9.9. Aksayamati-pariprccha (Questions of the Bodhisattva Aksayamati)
The Buddha describes how the bodhisattva practices the ten perfections (paramitas), and the ten stages of the bodhisattva path.
VIII Skillful Means
Sutra 30 Chapter in Treasury Jnanottara-bodhisattva-pariprccha
4.9.12. Jnanottarabodhisattva-pariprccha (Questions of the Bodhisattva Supreme Knowledge)
