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The sutra claims to focus on the explication of the meaning of nonduality. A important aspect of this scripture is that it contains a report of a teaching addressed to highly accomplished and revered Buddhist disciples (amongst which Sariputra, Moggallana and Mahakassapa) by the layman (and bodhisattva) Vimalakīrti, who claims to expound the doctrine of Sunyata to them, and eventually resorts to silence. This particular teaching by Vimalakirti is thus used to portray the most accomplished disciples of the Buddha as deficient in understanding, in order to be able to present the ideal of Bodhisattvaship as higher than Arahantship.

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  • Vimalakirti Sutra
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  • The sutra claims to focus on the explication of the meaning of nonduality. A important aspect of this scripture is that it contains a report of a teaching addressed to highly accomplished and revered Buddhist disciples (amongst which Sariputra, Moggallana and Mahakassapa) by the layman (and bodhisattva) Vimalakīrti, who claims to expound the doctrine of Sunyata to them, and eventually resorts to silence. This particular teaching by Vimalakirti is thus used to portray the most accomplished disciples of the Buddha as deficient in understanding, in order to be able to present the ideal of Bodhisattvaship as higher than Arahantship.
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  • The sutra claims to focus on the explication of the meaning of nonduality. A important aspect of this scripture is that it contains a report of a teaching addressed to highly accomplished and revered Buddhist disciples (amongst which Sariputra, Moggallana and Mahakassapa) by the layman (and bodhisattva) Vimalakīrti, who claims to expound the doctrine of Sunyata to them, and eventually resorts to silence. This particular teaching by Vimalakirti is thus used to portray the most accomplished disciples of the Buddha as deficient in understanding, in order to be able to present the ideal of Bodhisattvaship as higher than Arahantship.
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