ORIGINAL VOWS OF KSITIGARBHA BODHISATTVA SUTRA 1st of 4 books
Khenpo Sodargye
Courses · 248 pages · 2026
About this book
Commented by Khenpo Sodargye 2023 Edition
Contents
TITLEiiChapter One Spiritual Penetration in the Trayastrimsa Heaven1Lecture One3Why Am I Teaching This Sutra?4Library at Larung Gar15The Authenticity of the Ksitigarbha Sutra18The Title of the Sutra27What Happened in the Trayastrimsa Heaven?31Lecture Two40Have Faith in the Ksitigarbha Practice41Repay Your Parents’ Kindness44Importance of Keeping Environment Clean47Siksananda and Buddhism in Xinjiang55The Tathagata’s Light and Sound63Attendees of the Dharma Assembly70Lecture Three79Try to Be Inspired by the Teaching80Efficacy Story: A Ksitigarbha Image on a Walking Stick83Countless Beings Liberated by Ksitigarbha91Inconceivable Qualities of Ksitigarbha102Lecture Four112Efficacy Story: A Girl Saved Her Mother from the Hell113An Elder’s Son Generated Bodhicitta116The Noble Brahman Girl Who Saved Her Mother126Chapter Two The Assembly of the Emanations160Lecture Five162Efficacy Story: Making Ksitigarbha Statue Saves One from Death163The Gathering of Ksitigarbha‘s Emanations167How Did the Buddha Transform Obstinate Beings?176The Buddha’s Various Emanations to Tame Beings183Ksitigarbha’s Promise to Save Sentient Beings189Chapter Three Observing the Karmic Conditions of Living Beings200Lecture Six202Proper Way in Making Offerings203Efficacy Story: Being Saved from Misfortunes206The Ripened Effects of Wrongdoings209Crimes That Lead One to the Incessant Hell213Sufferings in the Incessant Hell230