Texts About Stūpas
Explore our curated collection of Buddhist sutras focused on stupas, offering profound insights into these sacred monuments. Discover teachings that illuminate the spiritual significance and historical context of stupas within the Buddhist tradition.
Toh
195
Chapter
Ref
Toh 195
31
Pages
Kangyur
Discourses
General Sūtra Section
The Avalokinī Sūtra
Avalokinīsūtra
|
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཀྱི་མདོ།
The Avalokinī Sūtra takes place in the city of Rājagṛha, where the Buddha teaches on the benefits that result from honoring the stūpas of awakened beings. The major part of this teaching consists in the Buddha detailing the many positive rewards obtained by those who worship the buddhas’ stūpas with offerings, such as flowers, incense, and lamps.
Toh
212
Chapter
Ref
Toh 212 / 520 / 980
2
Pages
Kangyur
Discourses
General Sūtra Section
The Sūtra on Dependent Arising
Pratītyasamutpādasūtra
|
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་མདོ།
While the Buddha is residing in the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods with a retinue of deities, great hearers, and bodhisattvas, Avalokiteśvara asks the Buddha how beings can gain merit from building a stūpa.
Toh
509
Chapter
Ref
Toh 509 / 920
3
Pages
Kangyur
Tantra
Action tantras
The Dhāraṇī “One Hundred Thousand Ornaments of the Essence of Awakening”
Bodhigarbhālaṅkāralakṣadhāraṇī
|
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོའི་རྒྱན་འབུམ་གྱི་གཟུངས།
This short text presents a set of mantras that, when placed inside a stūpa, multiply the merit of having built one stūpa by one hundred thousand. These dhāraṇīs are specifically said to be of benefit to future generations whose merit will be weak.
Toh
601
Chapter
Ref
Toh 601 / 884
14
Pages
Kangyur
Tantra
Action tantras
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya
Caityadhāraṇī
|
མཆོད་རྟེན་གྱི་གཟུངས།
The Dhāraṇī for a Caitya is a short manual on the ritual preparation for and casting of small caityas from clay. The ritual has three main parts: a description of the general transformative power of the dhāraṇī, the preparation rituals for the ground and clay, and rituals for the consecration of the cast images.
More Popular Themes
Our Popular Themes are curated lists of texts to meet the needs of our readers and learners.