The Play in Full: A Teaching on the Buddha's Life and the Practice of Supplication

Chagdud Khadro leads an exploration of the Lalitavistara Sutra (The Play in Full), one of Buddhism's most visually rich biographical texts. Hosted by 84000 to celebrate Chokhor Duchen—the holiday commemorating the Buddha's first teaching—this talk reveals how the sutra presents the Buddha's life as both compelling narrative and practical instruction. Khadro explains the significance of supplication in Buddhist practice, details how specific virtuous actions across countless lifetimes manifested as the Buddha's remarkable physical characteristics, and emphasizes the urgency of preserving these teachings through translation for future generations in what Buddhist cosmology calls an "undetermined" age.

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