The Chapter on Mañjuśrī’s Magical Display

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འཇམ་དཔལ་རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པའི་ལེའུ།
The Chapter on Mañjuśrī’s Magical Display
Mañjuśrī­vikurvāṇa­parivarta

In The Chapter on Mañjuśrī’s Magical Display, the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī answers a series of questions posed by the god Great Light concerning the appropriate conduct for bodhisattvas and the potential pitfalls and obstacles presented to bodhisattvas by Māra. Midway through the sūtra, the demon Māra himself appears and, after being captured and converted by Mañjuśrī, he begins to teach the Buddha’s Dharma to the audience. After revealing that Māra was never truly bound by anything other than his own perception, Mañjuśrī resumes his teaching for the remainder of the sūtra.

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