Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhivikurvitādhiṣthānavaipulyasūtrendrarājadharmaparyāya/Full text
Mahāvairocanãbhisambodhisūtra. (T. Rnam par snang mdzad chen po mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa rnam par sprul ba byin gyis rlob pa shin tu rgyas pa mdo; C. Da piluzhena chengfo shenbian jiachi jing/Dari jing; J. Daibirushana jōbutsu jinben kajikyō/Dainichikyō; K. Tae Pirojana sǒngbul sinbyǒn kaji kyǒng /Taeil kyǒng 大毘盧那成佛神變加持經. In Sanskrit, "The Discourse on the Enlightenment of Mahāvairocanā"; a scripture also known as the Mahāvairocanasūtra and the Vairocanābhisambodhitantra; the full title of the work is Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhivikurvitādhisthānavaipulyasūtra ("Extensive Sūtra on the Enlightenment, Transformations, and Empowerment of Mahāvairocana"). This scripture is an early Buddhist tantra, which was probably composed sometime between the mid-sixth and seventh centuries, around the time that the mantrayāna was emerging as distinct strand of Mahāyāna Buddhism; the text is later classified as both a yogatantra and a caryātantra. It was first translated into Chinese by Śubhakarasiṃha and Yixing in 724-725, and would become one of the two most important tantras for East Asian esoteric Buddhism (the other being the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha). The text was translated into Tibetan in the early ninth century; the Tibetan version contains an additional seven chapters, called the "continuation" (uttaratantra), that do not appear in the Chinese version. Among the commentaries to the text, the most important is that of Buddhaguyha and that of the Chinese translators, Śubhakarasiṃha and Yixing. The tantra is set forth as a dialogue between Vajrapāni and the buddha Mahāvairocanā. The central topics of the text are bodhicitta, karunā, and upāya, which the buddha Vairocana explains are respectively the cause, root, and culmination of his own omniscience. Much of the text deals with the traditional tantric topics of initiation (abhiṣeka), mantra recitation, mudrā, visualization, and the description of the maṇḍala. (Source: "Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhisūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 511-12. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
| Reference | mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhivikurvitādhiṣthānavaipulyasūtrendrarājadharmaparyāya [महावैरोचनाभिसंबोधिविकुर्विताधिष्थानवैपुल्यसूत्रेन्द्रराजधर्मपर्याय]. rnam par snang mdzad chen po mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa rnam par sprul pa byin gyis rlob pa shin tu rgyas pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i rgyal po zhes bya ba'i chos kyi rnam grangs [རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་ཆེན་པོ་མངོན་པར་རྫོགས་པར་བྱང་ཆུབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲུལ་པ་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབ་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས]. [The Tantra of the Complete Enlightenment of Vairocana (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 493 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=493&typ=1. |
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