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ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ།
shin tu rgyas pa
vaipulya
- Term
One of the twelve branches of scripture or aspects of the Dharma. Literally meaning “vast” or “extensive,” it refers to a particular set of lengthy sūtras or collections of sūtras that provides a comprehensive overview of Buddhist thought and practice. This category includes individual works such as the Lalitavistara and Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and collections such as the Mahāsannipāta, Buddhāvataṃsaka, Ratnakūta, and Prajñāpāramitā.
- Vaipulya
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ།
- shin tu rgyas pa
- vaipulya
As one of the twelve aspects of the Dharma, it means an extensive teaching on a subject.
See also “twelve wheels of the Dharma.”
- Vaipulya
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ།
- shin tu rgyas pa
- vaipulya
Literally “extensive”/“elaborate,” it is a denomination applied to a limited number of important sūtras, including the Lalitavistara, the Suvarṇaprabhāsa, and a few others.
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- Vaipulya
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ།
- shin tu rgyas pa
- vaipulya
One of the twelve branches of scripture. Literally meaning “vast” or “extensive,” it refers to a particular set of lengthy sūtras or collections of sūtras that each provide a comprehensive overview of Buddhist thought and practice. This category includes individual works such as the Lalitavistara and Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and collections such as the Mahāsannipāta, Buddhāvataṃsaka, Ratnakūta, and Prajñāpāramitā.
- Elaborate teachings
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་སྡེ།
- shin tu rgyas pa’i sde
- vaipulya
One among the twelve sections of scripture.
- Extensive
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ།
- shin tu rgyas pa
- vaipulya
As an adjective for a sūtra it refers to one of the twelve classes of sūtra teaching, and refers to sūtras of great length.
- Extensive sayings
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་སྡེ།
- shin tu rgyas pa’i sde
- vaipulya
One of the “twelve branches of excellent speech.”
- Extensive scriptures
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་སྡེ།
- shin tu rgyas pa’i sde
- vaipulya
- Extensive teachings
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་སྡེ།
- shin tu rgyas pa’i sde
- vaipulya
- 方廣經
One of the twelve branches of Buddhist scriptures.
- Most extensive discourses
- ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་མདོ་སྡེ།
- shin tu rgyas pa’i mdo sde
- vaipulyasūtra
Twelfth of the twelve branches of the scriptures.