།ལྟུང་བཤགས། Tungshak | Confession of Downfalls | Gyalwang Karmapa

Sutra of the Three Heaps (ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་པའི་མདོ་) also known as the The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls or Confession of Downfalls (Tung Shak), a method of purifying transgressions of vows and downfalls of the bodhisattva vow by invoking thirty-five buddhas of confession.

Origin of the Sutra
A group of thirty-five monks who had taken the bodhisattva vow and had accidentally caused the death of a child while they were out begging for alms went to Upali, one of the closest disciples of the Buddha, and asked him to request from the Buddha a method of confessing and purifying what they had done. The Buddha then spoke this sutra, and as he did so, light radiated from his body and thirty-four other buddhas appeared in the space all around him. The thirty-five monks prostrated before these buddhas, made offerings, confessed their misdeed, took refuge and re-awakened bodhichitta.

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