Toh 245
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “The Sections of Dharma”
འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryadharmaskandhanāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa chos kyi phung po 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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Version: v1.2.17
The KangyurDiscoursesGeneral Sūtra Section
Summary
In this sūtra some of Buddha Śākyamuni’s senior disciples request a teaching on the nature of “the sections of Dharma.” The Buddha responds by first delivering a teaching on the absence of birth with regard to phenomena, as an antidote to the poison of desire. On that basis, the Buddha then presents a longer explanation of the repulsiveness of the human body, and of the female body in particular.