The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened
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The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened
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The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened is a translation of the Bhadrakalpika, a Sutra celebrating the vast procession of Buddhas who embody the inconceivable Dharmakaya and bring joy to the hearts of beings throughout space and time. A unique and extensive teaching, the Bhadrakalpa presents the ten powers that distinguish a Buddha from all other beings, describing the samadhis that develop each power and the 8,400 perfections that give access to to these samadhis. It goes on to name each of the thousand Buddhas to appear in the course of our present aeon, predicting their place of birth, their parents, the number of their disciples, and the length of a human lifespan. Following closely upon the publication of The Voice of the Buddha, The Fortunate Aeon was translated to Westerners to deepen appreciation for the inconceivable accomplishments of the supremely Enlightened Ones and benefit from their example. This four-volume edition features Tibetan and English on facing pages. Designed to invite study and reflection, it incorporates woodblock prints of the thousand Buddhas printed in silver ink. A veritable compendium of Buddha-perfections, all grounded in the six perfections fundamental to the Bodhisattva path, this teaching can inspire readers to practice the perfections and move closer to the awakening of Bodhicitta. Four volumes. (Source: Dharma Publishing)
Citation
Dharma Publishing Staff, trans. The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Become Enlightened. 4 vols. Tibetan Translation Series. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1986.
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Table of contents
- Publisher's Prefaceix
- Introductionxiii
- VOLUME ONE
- The Samādhi: The Way of All Dharmas2
- The Teaching of the Ten Strengths52
- The Previous Teaching of This Samādhi80
- Enumerating the Pāramitās96
- The Extensive Teaching on the Pāramitās118
- VOLUME TWO
- Naming the Thousand Buddhas478
- The Extensive Teaching on the Thousand Buddhas: Buddha Krakucchanda (1) — Buddha Sūryaprabha (482)518
- VOLUME THREE
- The Extensive Teaching on the Thousand Buddhas: Buddha Vimalaprabha (483) — Buddha Sudhana (972)968
- VOLUME FOUR
- The Extensive teaching on the Thousand Buddhas: Buddha Pradīpa (973) — Buddha Roca (1004)1448
- The First Thoughts of Enlightenment1480
- The Prophecies1732
- Lists of the Buddhas1753
- Glossary1853
- Index1865
Interconnections
1 Full translation of
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.)
