In this episode, Jiawen talks about Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Earth Store/Earth Treasury/地藏菩萨), the bodhisattva most renowned for saving sentient beings in the hell realm, and how we can help save hell beings.

🔸Reference:

1. The Great Skilful Means Sutra on the Buddha’s Repayment of Kindness Vol.2 (大方便佛报恩经/卷02) [unavailable in English]

:The Buddha revealed in one of his past lives when he was an ordinary being he fell into the hell realm and how he transcended the hell realm by giving rise to the heart of compassion and generate bodhicitta.

2. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Fundamental Vow Sutra: Chapter 1 (Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s past life as a Brahmin girl) & Chapter 4 (Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s past life as the Bright Eye girl)

https://www.pure-land-buddhism.com/other-sutras/the-fundamental-vows-of-ksitigarbha-bodhisattva

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