Candrottarādārikāvyākaraṇasūtra/Full text
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आर्यचन्द्रोत्तरादारिकाव्याकरणनाममहायानसूत्र
Candrottarādārikāvyākaraṇasūtra
The Sūtra of the Prophecy Concening the Girl Candrottarā (84000)
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The Sutra of the Dialogue of the Girl Candrottarā was probably composed about the third or fourth century A.D., about the same time as the sequel to The Sutra of the Teaching of Vimalakīrti, which is known as The Sutra of the King Who Was Annointed on the Head (Ting-wang ching or Kuan-ting-wang ching). The Chinese translation of the Candrottarā was undertaken by Jnanagupta of Sui, a North Indian monk from Gandhara, and by the Chinese monk Chih-te in 591. The Tibetan translation was begun in the ninth century by Jinamitra.
The text is mainly in prose with several long sections of verse. The Candrottarā has few discourses on Mahāyāna teachings, focusing instead on a series of dialogues between Candrottarā, Śāriputra, and various Bodhisattvas . . . A noteworthy feature in the Candrottarā is the portrayal of Vimalakīrti as a rather weak individual who is afraid of threats from other men. In The Sutra of the Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Vimalakīrtinirdeśa) . . . on the other hand, Vimalakīrti is an immensely powerful Bodhisattva of unmitigated energy, who devastates the arguments of the monk Śāriputra. In Candrottarā, ("On top of the moon") Vimalakīrti's daughter, who is named Candrottarā, in an apparent reversal of roles with the Vimalakīrti of The Sutra of the Teaching of Vimalakīrti, has the same eloquence and incisive wisdom with regard to the Dharma as her father. The Candrottarā may be viewed as a sequel to the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa. (Extracted from Diana Paul, "Introduction to The Sutra of the Dialogue of the Girl Candrottarā," in Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahāyāna Tradition, 190-91)
| Reference | Candrottarādārikāvyākaraṇasūtra [आर्यचन्द्रोत्तरादारिकाव्याकरणनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa bu mo zla mchog lung bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བུ་མོ་ཟླ་མཆོག་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Prophecy Concening the Girl Candrottarā (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Ye shes sde, Jñānagupta. Kangyur, RKTSK 191 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=191&typ=1. |
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| People | Jinamitra, Jñānagupta, Yeshe De |
