Toh 203

The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “The Seal of Dharma”

འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

Ārya­dharma­mudrānāma­mahāyāna­sūtra

《聖法印契經》

’phags pa chos kyi phyag rgya zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo

Translator: Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committeeunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Read time: 16 min
Version: v1.0.7
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Summary

In this short sūtra, the Buddha addresses the nature of monastic ordination according to the perspective of the Great Vehicle and how going forth from the life of a householder can be said to have the qualities of being noble and supramundane. Following the Buddha’s teaching, the two prominent monks Śāriputra and Subhūti engage in a brief discussion on this same topic.

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The Seal of Dharma - 84001