Samādhirāja (Mitra)

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A work of the class called Vyákarana, or narrative, in which various forms of meditations are described at length, pre-eminence being given to a meditation or Samádhi called 'the king of Samádhis'. Its object is to show the process by which a votary of Buddha may rise to the highest eminence, each chapter showing a step in the gradual progress of the human mind in its moral condition, and reciting one or more stories on moral excellence in illustration of the different stages of that progress. The principal interlocutors are Buddha and Chandraprabha, and the scene is laid on the Gṛidhrakúṭa hill where Buddha expounded the principles of a religion which showers its blessings at all its stages, at the beginning, at the middle, and at the end. (Mitra, preliminary remarks, 207-8)

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Mitra, Rajendralal. "Samādhirāja." In The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, 207–21. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1882. https://archive.org/details/sanskritbuddhist00asiauoft/page/206/mode/2up.

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Sarvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitasamādhirājasūtra [सर्वधर्मस्वभावसमताविपञ्चितसमाधिराजसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The King of Samādhis, the Revealed Equality of the Nature of All Phenomena" (84000)]. Translated by Śīlendrabodhi, Dharmatāśīla, Narendrayaśas, Hsien-kung. Kangyur, RKTSK 127 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=127&typ=1.

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This sūtra, much quoted in later Buddhist writings for its profound statements especially on the nature of emptiness, relates a long teaching given by the Buddha mainly in response to questions put by a young layman, Candraprabha. The samādhi that is the subject of the sūtra, in spite of its name, primarily consists of various aspects of conduct, motivation, and the understanding of emptiness; it is also a way of referring to the sūtra itself. The teaching given in the sūtra is the instruction to be dedicated to the possession and promulgation of the samādhi, and to the necessary conduct of a bodhisattva, which is exemplified by a number of accounts from the Buddha's previous lives. Most of the teaching takes place on Vulture Peak Mountain, with an interlude recounting the Buddha's invitation and visit to Candraprabha's home in Rājagṛha, where he continues to teach Candraprabha before returning to Vulture Peak Mountain. In one subsequent chapter the Buddha responds to a request by Ānanda, and the text concludes with a commitment by Ānanda to maintain this teaching in the future. (Source: 84000)

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Mitra, Rājendralāla. The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1882. https://archive.org/details/cu31924007399342/page/n3/mode/2up.

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A catalogue of the manuscripts presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, preceded by an account of the donor, with lists of his works.

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Sarvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitasamādhirājasūtra [सर्वधर्मस्वभावसमताविपञ्चितसमाधिराजसूत्र]. 'phags pa chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The King of Samādhis, the Revealed Equality of the Nature of All Phenomena" (84000)]. Translated by Śīlendrabodhi, Dharmatāśīla, Narendrayaśas, Hsien-kung. Kangyur, RKTSK 127 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=127&typ=1.

Classical WorksAbout this item

This sūtra, much quoted in later Buddhist writings for its profound statements especially on the nature of emptiness, relates a long teaching given by the Buddha mainly in response to questions put by a young layman, Candraprabha. The samādhi that is the subject of the sūtra, in spite of its name, primarily consists of various aspects of conduct, motivation, and the understanding of emptiness; it is also a way of referring to the sūtra itself. The teaching given in the sūtra is the instruction to be dedicated to the possession and promulgation of the samādhi, and to the necessary conduct of a bodhisattva, which is exemplified by a number of accounts from the Buddha's previous lives. Most of the teaching takes place on Vulture Peak Mountain, with an interlude recounting the Buddha's invitation and visit to Candraprabha's home in Rājagṛha, where he continues to teach Candraprabha before returning to Vulture Peak Mountain. In one subsequent chapter the Buddha responds to a request by Ānanda, and the text concludes with a commitment by Ānanda to maintain this teaching in the future. (Source: 84000)