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सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान

Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna

གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།

gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam

The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)

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The Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna ("The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty from the Sūtra of the Golden Light") is an anonymous aspirational prayer (praṇidhāna) preserved in the Tengyur, filed under the miscellany (sna tshogs) section. The text is a standalone extraction of the prayer embedded in the Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra ("Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light"), one of the most widely venerated Mahāyāna sūtras, known for its themes of purification, confession, divine protection, and the promotion of ideal rulership. No author or translator is recorded in any of the major catalogs. The text is preserved in the Derge (D 4379), Peking (Q 5926), Narthang (N 4689), and Mongolian (Mmt4987) recensions of the Tengyur.

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Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra [आर्यसुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रराजनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sovereign Lord of Sūtras, The Golden Light]. Translated by Jinamitra, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Baogui, Yijing. Kangyur, D556. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=550&typ=1; http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=551&typ=1; http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=552&typ=1.

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There are three translations of this text included in the Tibetan canon:

1. Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra (RKTSK 550) translated from the Chinese by Gö Chödrub.
2. Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra (RKTSK 551) translated from the Sanskrit by Jinamitra, Śīlendrabodhi, and Ye shes sde.
3. Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra (RKTSK 552). Translator not listed.

Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra. (T. Gser ’od dam pai mdo; C. Jinguangming zuishengwang jing; J. Konkōmyō saishōōkyō; K. Kǔmgwangmyǒng ch’oesǔngwang kyǒng). In Sanskrit, "Sūtra of Supreme Golden Light," an influential Mahāyāna sūtra, especially in East Asia. Scholars speculate that the text originated in India in the fourth century and was gradually augmented. It was translated into Chinese by Yijing in 703. The sūtra contains many dhāraṇī and is considered by some to be a proto-tantric text; in some editions of the Tibetan canon it is classified as a tantra. It is important in East Asian Buddhism for two main reasons. First was the role the sūtra played in conceptualizing state-protection Buddhism (huguo fojiao). The sūtra declares that deities will protect the lands of rulers who worship and uphold the sūtra, bringing peace and prosperity, but will abandon the lands of rulers who do not, such that all manner of catastrophe will befall their kingdoms. The sūtra was thus central to "state protection" practices in East Asia, together with the Saddharmapuṇḍarikasūtra and the Renwang jing. Second, the sūtra provides the locus classicus for the "water and land ceremony" (shuilu hui), a ritual intended for universal salvation, but especially of living creatures who inhabit the most painful domains of saṃsāra; the ceremony was also performed for a variety of this-worldly purposes, including state protection and rain-making. According to the sūtra, in a previous life, the Buddha was a merchant s son named Jalavāhana, who one day encountered a dried-up pond in the forest, filled with thousands of dying fish. Summoning twenty elephants, he carried bags of water from a river into the forest and replenished the pond, saving the fish. He then sent for food with which to feed them. Finally, recalling that anyone who hears the name of the buddha Ratnaśikhin will be reborn in the heavens, he waded into the pond and pronounced the Buddha's name, followed by an exposition of dependent origination. When the fish died, they were reborn in the Trāyastriṃśa heaven. Recalling the reason for their happy fate, they visited the world of humans, where each offered a pearl necklace to Jalavāhana's head, foot, right side, and left side. The sūtra also tells the story of Prince Mahāsattva who sees a starving tigress and her cubs. He throws himself off a cliff to commit suicide so that the tiger might eat his body (see Namo Buddha). This is one of the most famous cases of dehadāna, or gift of the body. (Source: "Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 877. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Pāpadeśanā - The Buddhist practice of 'confession' or 'laying aside evil.' It involves honestly acknowledging past mistakes and negative actions with regret, then committing not to repeat them. This process helps clear the mind of guilt and negative karmic imprints, creating space for positive qualities to grow. Skt पापदेशना  Tib སྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པ་  Ch 懺悔;披露罪過  

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Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Anon. suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrapraṇidhāna [सुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रप्रणिधान]. gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i smon lam [གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།]. [The Aspirational Prayer of Sovereignty From the Sūtra of the Golden Light (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3713 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3713&typ=2.

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Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra [आर्यसुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रराजनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sovereign Lord of Sūtras, The Golden Light]. Translated by Jinamitra, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Dharmakṣema, Baogui, Yijing. Kangyur, D556. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=550&typ=1; http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=551&typ=1; http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=552&typ=1.

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Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtrendrarājasūtra [आर्यसुवर्णप्रभासोत्तमसूत्रेन्द्रराजनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa gser 'od dam pa mdo sde'i dbang po'i rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sovereign Lord of Sūtras, The Sublime Golden Light (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 552 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=552&typ=1.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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