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Explanation of Sutra Toh 2757 — Tengyur Treatise Collection
Background
Sutra Toh 2757 belongs to the Treatise Collection (Abhidharmakosa-bhasya) of the Tengyur, a collection of Buddhist treatises translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan, gathering teachings that summarize the essence of the Buddha Dharma from the perspective of the Mahayana tradition. The Tengyur contains more than 3,600 texts, including commentaries by bodhisattvas and the greatest Buddhist sages from the golden age of Indian Buddhism.
The Northern Tibetan tradition, or Tibetan Buddhism, inherits the Mahayana tradition, aiming toward the Buddha’s complete awakening and the liberation of all sentient beings. The Treatise Collection serves the purpose of explaining and summarizing the sutras, clarifying profound and difficult points in the Buddha’s original teachings.
Main Contents
Although the original title has not been clearly recorded in the descriptive information, Sutra Toh 2757 belongs to the Abhidharma current (the Four Noble Truths), treatises concerning absolute Dharma (paramartha-satya). In this tradition, authors such as Vasubandhu and other Mahayana bodhisattva masters detailed the factors that constitute existence (dharmaskandha) and the process of mental experience through the three realms (abiding, desire, form, and formlessness).
The sutra may address such themes as: (1) the fourteen categories of hungry spirits (skandhacaturdasavarga), the classification of all psychological and physical phenomena, (2) formative action (samskara), the conditioning factors that shape mind and body, or (3) the consistency between emptiness (sunyata) and buddha-nature (Buddha-tathagatagarbha).
The Mahayana view in the Northern Tibetan tradition emphasizes that all sentient beings possess buddha-nature, and that liberation is the manifestation of the clear mind that has always been free from clinging. The Treatise Collection helps practitioners understand clearly the workings of the mind, and from there cultivate mindfulness (smrti), right concentration (samadhi), and wisdom (prajna).
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