An Arapacana Syllabary in the Bhadrakalpika-Sūtra
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Description
The high status that the Bhadrakalpika enjoys in Tibet is shown from the fact that in all available Kanjurs it opens the Sūtra Division (mDo sde),[4] a venerable practice that goes back to at least the early ninth-century IDan dkar Catalogue, in which the sutra opens the division of "miscellaneous Mahāyāna sūtras."[5] The Bhadrakalpika was also circulated independently, as a single volume, and enshrined on many household altars.[6] Tarthang Tulku notes that "reading, reciting, and listening to the Bhadrakalpika-sutra invokes the blessings of all the Buddhas whose coming it heralds; thus the Bhadrakalpika has always been counted among the most auspіcious texts...; [it] was often read and recited in my home, as it was in the homes of many Tibetan families upon important occasions."[7] (Skilling, preliminary remarks, 522)
