Toh 162
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “The Questions of Śrīvasu”
འཕགས་པ་དཔལ་དབྱིག་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Śrīvasuparipṛcchānāmamahāyānasūtra
《吉祥世所問經》
’phags pa dpal dbyig gyis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Ratnaśrī Translation Groupunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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Summary
The Buddha is approached by the young merchant Śrīvasu, who requests instruction on how to live his life as a novice bodhisattva. The Buddha is pleased and offers some pithy advice regarding the bodhisattva path that encapsulates the main altruistic aims and practices of the Great Vehicle. He states that foremost among the bodhisattva’s daily practices are taking refuge in the Three Jewels, practicing the six perfections, and dedicating all resulting merit to the attainment of awakening for oneself and others.