སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས་ཞུས་པ་ཆོས་བདུན་པ།
The Inquiry of Avalokiteśvara on the Seven Qualities
Avalokiteśvaraparipṛcchāsaptadharmaka
འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས་ཞུས་པ་ཆོས་བདུན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
’phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gis zhus pa chos bdun pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo
The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Inquiry of Avalokiteśvara on the Seven Qualities”
Āryāvalokiteśvaraparipṛcchāsaptadharmakanāmamahāyānasūtra

Toh 150
Degé Kangyur, vol. 57 (mdo sde, pa), folios 331.a – 331.b.
Translated by the University of Calgary Buddhist Studies team
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Summary
The sūtra is introduced with the Buddha residing on Vulture Peak Mountain in Rājagṛha, together with a great monastic assembly of 1,250 monks and a multitude of bodhisattva mahāsattvas. The Buddha is approached and asked by the bodhisattva mahāsattva Avalokiteśvara about the qualities that should be cultivated by a bodhisattva who has just generated the altruistic mind set on attaining awakening. The Buddha briefly expounds seven qualities that should be practiced by such a bodhisattva, emphasizing mental purity and cognitive detachment from conceptuality.
Acknowledgements
Translation by the University of Calgary Buddhist Studies team. This sūtra was introduced and translated by James B. Apple.
This translation has been completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.