Gilgit Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Part 2)

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Gilgit Manuscripts. Vol. 2, part 2

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Sutras (Sanskrit)

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A critical Sanskrit edition of the Samādhirājasūtra edited by Nalinaksha Dutt, with the assistance of Vidhyavaridhi Shiv Nath Sharma. Based on a MS. discovered at Gilgit in the territory of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. This volume contains part 2 of the text and covers chapters 17–32.

Citation

Dutt, Nalinaksha, and Vidhyavaridhi Shiv Nath Shastri, eds. Gilgit Manuscripts. Vol. 2, part 2 (Samādirājasūtra). Calcutta: Calcutta Oriental Press, 1953. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.487297/mode/2up

Table of contents

- Summaryi–xxix
१७ बहुबुद्धनिर्हारसमाधिमुखपरिवर्तः२१५
१८ समाध्यनुपरिन्दनपरिवर्तः२६३
१९ अचिन्त्यबुद्धधर्मनिर्देशपरिवर्तः२७३
२० इन्द्रकेतुध्वजराजपरिवर्तः२८२
२१ पूर्वयोगपरिवर्तः२८७
२२ तथागतकायनिर्देशपरिवर्तः२९६
२३ तथागताचिन्त्यनिर्देशपरिवर्तः३०५
२४ प्रतिसंविदवतारपरिवर्तः३१३
२५ अनुमोदनापरिवर्तः३२४
२६ दानानुशंसापरिवर्तः३२९
२७ शीलनिर्देशपरिवर्तः३३२
२८ दशानुशंसापरिवर्तः३३४
२९ तेजगुणराजपरिवर्तः३५७
३० अनुशंसापरिवर्तः३९१
३१ सर्वधर्मस्वभावनिर्देशपरिवर्तः३९५
३२ सूत्रधारणानुशंसापरिवर्तः४०४

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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)