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Texts About Stūpas

Explore our curated collection of Buddhist sutras focused on stupas, offering profound insights into these sacred monuments. Discover teachings that illuminate the spiritual significance and historical context of stupas within the Buddhist tradition.

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General Sūtra Section
The Avalokinī Sūtra
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Avalokinīsūtra
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སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་མདོ།
The Avalokinī Sūtra takes place in the city of Rājagṛha, where the Buddha teaches on the benefits that result from honoring the stūpas of awakened beings. The major part of this teaching consists in the Buddha detailing the many positive rewards obtained by those who worship the buddhas’ stūpas with offerings, such as flowers, incense, and lamps.
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The Great Rumble
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Mahāraṇa
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སྒྲ་ཆེན་པོ།
The Buddha’s disciple Ānanda is on an alms round in Śrāvastī when he notices an immaculate palace. He wonders whether it would be more meritorious to offer such a palace to the monastic community or to enshrine a relic of the Buddha within a small stūpa. He poses this question to the Buddha who describes how the merit of the latter far exceeds any other offerings one could make. The reason the Buddha cites for this is the immense qualities that the buddhas possess.
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The Sūtra on Dependent Arising
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རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་མདོ།
While the Buddha is residing in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods with a retinue of deities, great hearers, and bodhisattvas, Avalokiteśvara asks the Buddha how beings can gain merit from building a stūpa.
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General Sūtra Section
The Marvelous Dharma Discourse
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Adbhuta­dharma­paryāya
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རྨད་དུ་བྱུང་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས།
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Action tantras
The Dhāraṇī “One Hundred Thousand Ornaments of the Essence of Awakening”
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བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན་འབུམ་གྱི་གཟུངས།
This short text presents a set of mantras that, when placed inside a stūpa, multiply the merit of having built one stūpa by one hundred thousand. These dhāraṇīs are specifically said to be of benefit to future generations whose merit will be weak.
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The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya
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མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya is a short manual on the ritual preparation for and casting of small caityas from clay. The ritual has three main parts: a description of the general transformative power of the dhāraṇī, the preparation rituals for the ground and clay, and rituals for the consecration of the cast images.
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