བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད། | Glossary of Terms

The collection of Great Vehicle teachings.

The sūtras and teachings of the bodhisattva vehicle in general (not to be confused with the sūtra of the same name, Toh 56, in the Ratnakūṭa).

An old term for Mahāyāna corpus.

In this text, the bodhisattva collection refers to the realization of all phenomena as well as the qualities of ordinary beings, learning, that which is beyond learning, hearers, solitary buddhas, bodhisattvas, and buddhas.

The collection of the Mahāyāna teachings.

A collection of the Great Vehicle teachings.

“Basket” or “Collected Teachings for Bodhisattvas,” refers to the sūtras and teachings of the bodhisattva yāna in general.

The collection of the Vast (vaipulya) Sūtras of the Mahāyāna, supposed to have been collected supernaturally by a great assembly of bodhisattvas led by Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Vajrapāṇi. There is a Mahāyāna sūtra called Bodhisattvapiṭaka, but the word more usually refers to the whole collection (piṭaka) of Mahāyāna sūtras, to distinguish them from the Three Collections (Tripiṭaka) of the Hinayāna.