Toh 51
The Noble Great Vehicle Sūtra “The Teaching of the Armor Array”
འཕགས་པ་གོ་ཆའི་བཀོད་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryavarmavyūhanirdeśanāmamahāyānasūtra
《被甲莊嚴經》（大正藏：《大寶積經被甲莊嚴會第七》）
’phags pa go cha’i bkod pa bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Read time: 4 hr 40 min
Version: v1.0.11
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Summary
The Teaching of the Armor Array describes a dialog between the Buddha Śākyamuni and the bodhisattva Anantamati. The sūtra is primarily concerned with the great armor, a quality related to the perfection of insight. As such, it is no conventional sort of armor. Rather, donning it involves giving up all grasping at phenomena, and engaging diligently on the path, with insight into the nature of phenomena. The Buddha and Anantamati also discuss the nature of the Great Vehicle and the great path, all the while emphasizing their emptiness and lack of marks.