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The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities”
འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པས་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
Āryamaitreyaparipṛcchādharmāṣṭanāmamahāyānasūtra
’phags pa byams pas chos brgyad zhus pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
Translator: Translated by Karen Liljenberg and Ulrich Pagel under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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Summary
In The Question of Maitreya on the Eight Qualities, Maitreya asks the Buddha what qualities bodhisattvas need in order to be sure of completing the path to buddhahood. In response, the Buddha briefly lists eight qualities. Starting with the excellent intention to become enlightened, they include loving kindness, as well as realization of the perfection of wisdom, which the Buddha explains in terms of reflection on the twelve links of dependent origination.