Toh 164
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “The Questions of Ratnacandra”
འཕགས་པ་རིན་ཆེན་ཟླ་བས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryaratnacandraparipṛcchānāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa rin chen zla bas zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by Tenpa Tseringunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
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Version: v1.2.17
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Summary
The Questions of Ratnacandra is a sūtra in which Ratnacandra, a prince from the country of Magadha, requests the Buddha Śākyamuni to reveal the names of the ten buddhas who dwell in the ten directions. Prince Ratnacandra has been told that hearing the names of these ten buddhas ensures that one will attain awakening at some point in the future. The Buddha confirms this and discloses their names, as well as details of their respective buddha realms, such as the names of these realms and their many unique qualities.