New Publications: Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse

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མ་སྐྱེས་དགྲའི་འགྱོད་པ་བསལ་བ།
Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse
Ajāta­śatru­kaukṛtya­vinodana

Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse narrates how the teachings of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī help King Ajātaśatru overcome the severe negative action of having killed his father, King Bimbisāra. Through instruction, pointed questioning, and a display of miracles, Mañjuśrī and his retinue of bodhisattvas show King Ajātaśatru that the remorse he feels for his crime is in fact unreal, just as all phenomena are unreal. The sūtra thus demonstrates Mañjuśrī’s superiority in wisdom and the profound purification that comes from realizing emptiness.

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