The Rice Seedling Sutra
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe taught on The Rice Seedling Sutra at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor from September 16 to 22, 2019.
The Rice Seedling Sutra (Salistamba Sutra, Tib: sa lu’i jang pai do) is an early Mahayana Sutra in which Maitreya explains to Shariputra a short statement on dependent arising the Buddha made while looking at a rice seedling.
“Bikshus, whoever sees dependent arising sees the Dharma. Whoever sees the Dharma sees the Buddha.”
The sutra explores the nature of all phenomena as dependent arising based on inner and outer conditions, such as the twelve links of dependent origination and the four elements.
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe himself translated a commentary by Vasubhandu on The Rice Seedling Sutra from Tibetan to Hindi.