Toh 179
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths”
འཕགས་པ་ཀུན་རྫོབ་དང་དོན་དམ་པའི་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryasaṃvṛtiparamārthasatyanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa kun rdzob dang don dam pa’i bden pa bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Group under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Read time: 1 hr 30 min
Version: v2.24.16
The KangyurDiscoursesGeneral Sūtra Section
Summary
In Teaching the Relative and Ultimate Truths, the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī is summoned by Buddha Śākyamuni from a faraway buddha realm to teach in a way that demolishes all dualistic experience. As Mañjuśrī begins to teach, the main message of the sūtra unfolds as an explanation of the two truths. The general theme of Mañjuśrī’s discourse is centered on the particular circumstances in Ratnaketu’s buddha realm, but the message is equally applicable to the experiences of beings here in this world.