Mahāyāna · Tibetan Buddhism
The Samantabhadra Perfection of Wisdom
འཕགས་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
Historical context
The work survives in Tibetan Kangyurs and has no known extant Sanskrit version or Chinese translation. 84000's introduction places it among five short Perfection of Wisdom sūtras associated with major bodhisattvas.
What is this text?
Samantabhadra asks the Buddha to distinguish wisdom that resembles wisdom from wisdom itself; the answer connects the distinction to stages of the bodhisattva path.
Key ideas
- Conceptual and direct wisdom are distinguished
- Wisdom is placed within the bodhisattva path
- The scripture survives through Tibetan canonical transmission
Selected passage
The licensed 84000 translation is linked but not excerpted under its NoDerivatives terms.
Original-language text
ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོའི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
Ancient Tibetan canonical text: public domain as text; verify digital transcription terms separately.English translation
Read the full translation and scholarly introduction at 84000.
Translator: Nyimé Translation Committee (linked edition)
84000 translation: CC BY-NC-ND; no excerpt reproduced.Chanting, recitation & pronunciation
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Sources & further reading
Translator: Nyimé Translation Committee
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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