Vajradhvajapariṇāma
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वज्रध्वजपरिणाम
Vajradhvajapariṇāma
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཡོངས་བསྔོའི་ལེའུ་སྟེ།
rdo rje rgyal mtshan yongs bsngo'i le'u ste
Chapter 30: Vajradhvaja's Dedication (84000)
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Chapter 30 [of the Buddhāvataṃsakamahāvaipūlyasūtra] is considered by the Degé Catalog to represent a section on its own called rdo rje rgyal mtshan gyi le'u ("the Vajradhvaja chapter," *Vajradhvajaparivarta), but . . . Pekar Zangpo includes chapters 28 and 29 as well under a similar name. Whichever grouping one takes, this section presumably corresponds to the Denkarma's byang chub sems dpa' rdo rje rgyal mtshan gyis yongs su bsngo ba'i le'u ("the chapter on the bodhisattva Vajradhvaja's dedications," *Bodhisattvavajradhvajapariṇāmaparivarta). Tashi Wangchuk uses the same name but does not state whether he includes all three chapters 28–30 or only 30.
- Chapter 30: Vajradhvaja's Dedications (rdo rje rgyal mtshan gyi yongs su bsngo ba, Toh 44-30)
- — this chapter may be the same work as a sūtra so named that is cited in several Indian treatises and is probably the Vajradhvajasūtra mentioned by Śāntideva in the Bodhicaryāvatāra (VII.46). A work in the Tengyur (Toh 3965) summarizes its contents. (Source: 84000).
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vajradhvajapariṇāma [वज्रध्वजपरिणाम]. rdo rje rgyal mtshan yongs bsngo'i le'u ste [རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཡོངས་བསྔོའི་ལེའུ་སྟེ།]. [Chapter 30: Vajradhvaja's Dedication (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-30 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-30&typ=1.
Interconnections
1 Similar title
The Vajradhvajapariṇāmanā (VdhP) has been characterized as a summary of the similarly titled sūtra, the chapter or, better, component text of the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra which is quoted at such length in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.[4] This lengthy sūtra does in fact seem to have been an important source for Śāntideva. Whether the 12 (Sanskrit) or 16 (Tibetan) verses of the VdhP, however, can be accurately characterized as a summary of it is somewhat doubtful, although they clearly reference the sūtra's main character, the bodhisattva Vajradhvaja, and recapitulate a number of its themes, including its leitmotif of the dedication of merit and its invocation of Samantabhadra and his practice. This immediately suggests a connection with the well-known Bhadracaryāpraṇidhāna or (Samanta)bhadracarīpraṇidhāna—the text goes by various names—a connection explicitly acknowledged by Śāntideva, who refers to it as the Bhadracaryāgāthā.[5] Like that longer, more popular verse text, which closes the Gaṇḍavyūha and thus the Buddhāvataṃsaka as a whole, the VdhP, i.e. the short poem, offers much more than its title might suggest, but contains in a condensed form most of the basic elements of the ritual sequence known as the Supreme Worship (anuttarapūjā): praise or paying of homage (vandanā), confession of misdeeds (pāpadeśanā), rejoicing in merit (modanā, anumodanā), requesting or exhortation to teach (adhyeṣanā), entreaty to the Buddhas to remain for the benefit of the world (yācanā), and aspiration to awakening (bodhicittotpāda), as well as dedication of merit (puṇyapariṇāmanā). We can understand it, therefore, as a conveniently short but nevertheless comprehensive expression of a key Mahāyāna Buddhist ritual programme. (Harrison, "The Vajradhvajapariṇāmanā: An Edition and Translation of the Tibetan Version," 158–59)
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One of the longest works in the entire Buddhist canon, the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra is widely considered to be a compilation of independent scriptures, which was expanded upon over the course of time. It was extremely influential in East Asia, where it was preserved in an eighty-scroll recension. The Tibetan translation of this work fills four volumes in the Derge Kangyur. Though only two sections—namely, the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra and the Daśabhūmikasūtra—have survived in Sanskrit, both of which have also circulated as independent works.
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The Vajradhvajapariṇāmanā (VdhP) has been characterized as a summary of the similarly titled sūtra, the chapter or, better, component text of the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra which is quoted at such length in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.[4] This lengthy sūtra does in fact seem to have been an important source for Śāntideva. Whether the 12 (Sanskrit) or 16 (Tibetan) verses of the VdhP, however, can be accurately characterized as a summary of it is somewhat doubtful, although they clearly reference the sūtra's main character, the bodhisattva Vajradhvaja, and recapitulate a number of its themes, including its leitmotif of the dedication of merit and its invocation of Samantabhadra and his practice. This immediately suggests a connection with the well-known Bhadracaryāpraṇidhāna or (Samanta)bhadracarīpraṇidhāna—the text goes by various names—a connection explicitly acknowledged by Śāntideva, who refers to it as the Bhadracaryāgāthā.[5] Like that longer, more popular verse text, which closes the Gaṇḍavyūha and thus the Buddhāvataṃsaka as a whole, the VdhP, i.e. the short poem, offers much more than its title might suggest, but contains in a condensed form most of the basic elements of the ritual sequence known as the Supreme Worship (anuttarapūjā): praise or paying of homage (vandanā), confession of misdeeds (pāpadeśanā), rejoicing in merit (modanā, anumodanā), requesting or exhortation to teach (adhyeṣanā), entreaty to the Buddhas to remain for the benefit of the world (yācanā), and aspiration to awakening (bodhicittotpāda), as well as dedication of merit (puṇyapariṇāmanā). We can understand it, therefore, as a conveniently short but nevertheless comprehensive expression of a key Mahāyāna Buddhist ritual programme. (Harrison, "The Vajradhvajapariṇāmanā: An Edition and Translation of the Tibetan Version," 158–59)
