Toh 62
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla (1)”
འཕགས་པ་ཡུལ་འཁོར་སྐྱོང་གིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryarāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchānāmamahāyānasūtra
《護國所問經》（大正藏：《大寶積經護國菩薩會第十八》）
’phags pa yul ’khor skyong gis zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by the Vienna Buddhist Translation Studies Groupunder the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Read time: 2 hr 2 min
Version: v1.0.22
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Summary
The newly ordained monk Rāṣṭrapāla questions the Buddha about the proper conduct of a bodhisattva. The Buddha proceeds to explain its features in detail, giving as examples his own conduct in his multiple past lives. He tells the story of his past life as prince Puṇyaraśmi, who abandoned pleasure, a kingdom, and riches to follow the bodhisattva path to enlightenment for the sake of sentient beings.