Toh 225
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels”
འཕགས་པ་གསུམ་ལ་སྐྱབས་སུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryatriśaraṇagamananāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa gsum la skyabs su ’gro ba 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
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Summary
In Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels, the venerable Śāriputra wonders how much merit accrues to someone who takes refuge in the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. He therefore seeks out the Buddha Śākyamuni and requests a teaching on this topic. The Buddha proceeds to describe how even vast offerings, performed in miraculous ways, would not constitute a fraction of the merit gained by someone who takes refuge in the Three Jewels.