Karaṇḍavyūhasūtra/Full text
The Basket's Display (Kāraṇḍavyūha) is the source of the most prevalent mantra of Tibetan Buddhism: oṁ maṇipadme hūṁ. It marks a significant stage in the growing importance of Avalokiteśvara within Indian Buddhism in the early centuries of the first millennium. In a series of narratives within narratives, the sūtra describes Avalokiteśvara's activities in various realms and the realms contained within the pores of his skin. It culminates in a description of the extreme rarity of his mantra, which, on the Buddha's instructions, Bodhisattva Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin obtains from someone in Vārāṇasī who has broken his monastic vows. This sūtra provided a basis and source of quotations for the teachings and practices of the eleventh-century Maṇi Kabum, which itself served as a foundation for the rich tradition of Tibetan Avalokiteśvara practice. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)
| Reference | karaṇḍavyūhasūtra [करण्डव्यूहसूत्र]. 'phags pa za ma tog bkod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཟ་མ་ཏོག་བཀོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The Basket's Display" (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 116 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=116&typ=1. |
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| People | Dānaśīla, Jinamitra, Yeshe De |
