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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Satkāya (सत्काय) refers to the “(view that there is a) permanent substance”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, does the Bodhisattva never lose his supernormal knowledge after having attained the mastery of all dharmas? Son of good family, if a certain ascetic or a Brahmin produces the supernormal knowledge without having overcome the view that there is a permanent substance (satkāya-dṛṣṭi), he will loose his supernormal knowledge. However the Bodhisattva, having overcome sixty-two doctrinal viewpoints derived from the root view that there is a permanent substance, produces the supernormal knowledge in the absence of any attachment of view; [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Satkāya (सत्काय).—m. (= Pali sakkāya), real, existent, body; individuality, personality: mā…imaṃ…satkāyaṃ kāyaṃ manyadhvam Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 94.12, don't think this existent (physical) body (of Tathāgatas) is their body (but rather regard the dharmakāya as such); virtually = ātman, once at least in neutral or even favorable sense, prītibhakṣā bhaviṣyāmo satkāyenopaniḥśritāḥ (read °niśritāḥ) Udānavarga xxx.50, we shall feed on joy, relying on our selves (alone, not dependent on anything outside); but commonly in unfavorable sense, of the personality to believe in which is a heresy (dṛṣṭi, see next); satkāyasaṃjñīkṛtaṃ (sc. śarīraṃ) Lalitavistara 208.13 (verse), formed thru the false notion of the personality; nārāyaṇa- bhūtaṃ satkāya-dharma-nistāḍana-tayā Gaṇḍavyūha 495.6,…be- cause it puts down the qualities of the individuality. There seems little doubt of the [etymology] and fundamental meaning of this word (probably no one now agrees with Childers that it was orig. sva-kāya); and the scholastic fantasies of various schools listed by LaV-P. in Abhidharmakośa v.15—17 need not be recorded here, tho they evidently influenced Tibetan and Chin. interpretations.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Starts with: Satkayadrishti.

Full-text: Nistadana, Satkayadrishti, Samjnikrita, Upanishrita, Sakkaya, Drishtimula, Drishti, Dharmakaya.

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Search found 3 books and stories containing Satkaya, Satkāya; (plurals include: Satkayas, Satkāyas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

A Dictionary Of Chinese Buddhist Terms (by William Edward Soothill)

Part 18 - Eighteen Strokes

Part 4 - Four Strokes

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Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Chapter XXXI - On Bodhisattva Highly-virtuous King (e) < [Section Six]

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

A. Sattvaśūnyatā or Pudgalanairātmya < [I. The twofold emptiness in the canonical sūtras]

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