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The Good Eon: Bhadrakalpika (Doctor, T.)
An English translation of the Bhadrakalpikasūtra by Thomas Doctor of the Dharmacakra Translation Committee. Published by 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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Bhadrakalpikasūtra
From Bodhicitta
आर्यभद्रकल्पिकनाममहायानसूत्र
Bhadrakalpikasūtra
འཕགས་པ་བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
'phags pa bskal pa bzang po pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
Sūtra of the Good Eon (84000)
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Bhadrakalpikasūtra. (T. Bskal pa bzang po'i mdo/Mdo sde bskal bzang; C. Xianjie jing; J. Gengōgyō; K. Hyǒn'gǒp kyǒng 賢劫經). In Sanskrit, "Auspicious Eon Scripture"; a Mahāyāna text in twenty-four chapters, written c. 200-250 CE and translated into Chinese by Dharmarakṣa in either 291 or 300 CE. In this scripture, the Buddha teaches a special concentration (samādhi) through the mastery of which bodhisattvas come to be equipped with 2,100 perfections (pāramitā), 84,000 samādhis and 84,000 codes (dhāraṇī). He then lists the names of a thousand buddhas who will appear during the "auspicious eon" (bhadrakalpa) due to the merit they obtained from practicing this samādhi, as well as their residences, parents, disciples, spiritual powers, teachings, and so on. In the Tibetan bka' 'gyur the Bhadrakalpikasūtra takes pride of place as the first in the sūtra section (mdo sde); it is recited often, and it is not uncommon for the elaborate hagiographies (rnam thar) of important Tibetan religious figures or incarnations (sprul sku) to identify their subject as an earlier rebirth of one of the thousand buddhas. (Source: "Bhadrakalpikasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 106. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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Bhadrakalpikasūtra [आर्यभद्रकल्पिकनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa bskal pa bzang po pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [Sūtra of the Good Eon (84000)]. Translated by Ban de dpal dbyangs, Vidyākarasiṃha, Ska ba dpal brtsegs, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 94 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=94&typ=1.
| Number | 94 |
|---|---|
| Canon | Sūtra |
| Sanskrit | ārya-bhadrakalpika-nāma-mahāyānasūtra (D) |
| Alternate Titles | 'phags pa bskal pa bzang po pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (A D H J Ty Z);'phags pa bskal pa bzang po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo (C Cz Dd Dk F Gt L N Np Pj Pz Q R S U V);'phags pa bskal pa bzang po zhes bya theg pa chen po'i mdo (Ng);'phags pa bskal pa bzang po;'phags pa bskald pa bzang po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';skal bzang;'phags pa bskal pa bzang po pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo';'phags pa bskal pa bzang po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo' |
| Alternate Titles - Sanskrit | ārya bhadrakalpika nāma mahāyāna sūtra |
| Alternate Titles - Devanagari | आर्य भद्रकल्पिक नाम महायान सूत्र |
