འཕགས་པ་མ་སྐྱས་དགྲའ་འགྱད་པ་བསལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes

Eliminating Ajātaśatru’s Remorse notes

Language: English

Notes

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1. Harrison and Hartmann (1998, p. 68) describe this text as “Perhaps the most sophisticated and evolved of the Mahāyāna sūtras translated into Chinese by the Indo-Scythian master [Lokakṣema].”

2. Harrison and Hartmann (1998, 2000, and 2002) have published several brief articles on the Sanskrit fragments contained in the Schøyen collection. More recently, Miyazaki has published two brief articles in English on this sūtra (2008 and 2013). Most significantly, for those who read Japanese, Miyazaki has published his doctoral thesis on this sūtra (2012) as well as several Japanese translations of individual parts of this text.

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3. On these fragments, see Harrison and Hartmann 1998, 2000, and 2002.

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4. For an example of this, see Harrison and Hartmann 2000, p. 168, no. 4.

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5. For details, see Harrison and Hartmann 1998, pp. 67–68.

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6. Taishō 626, A she shi wang jing 阿闍世王經.

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7. An English translation of Lokakṣema's Chinese translation has been self-published by Shaku Shingan (2022).

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8. Taishō 627, Wen shu zhi li pu chao san mei jing 文殊支利普超三昧經.

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9. Taishō 628, Wei ceng you zheng fa jing 未曾有正法經.

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10. According to Harrison and Hartmann (2000, p. 168) this translation “is best regarded as a free adaptation of the text, rather than a straight translation of an Indic original.”

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11. Taishō 629, Fang bo jing 放鉢經.

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12. Harrison and Hartmann 2000, p. 168.

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13. Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, p. 140, no. 257. The Denkarma catalog is dated to c. 812 ce.

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14. Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, p. 140, n. 232.

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15. The Tabo Kangyur lists Śākyaprabha and Ratnarakṣita as the editors.

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16. For more on the possibility that the Tibetan was translated from a Chinese source, see Silk 2020, p. 240.

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17. Stok: “they are worthy ones.”

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18. Translation tentative. Tibetan: bstan na mthun len pa.

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19. Stok: “they behold certainty.”

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20. Stok: “Sublime beings are protectors for worldly beings.”

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21. kyi read as kyis according to Yongle, Lithang, Kangxi, Narthang, Choné, and Lhasa.

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22. pa’i read as pa according to Yongle, Kangxi, Narthang, and Lhasa.

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23. Translated based on Stok: mo da ka. Degé: mod ka.

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24. Translated based on Stok: ’bras chan. Degé: ’bras can.

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25. Translated based on Stok: ’chad pa. Degé: ’tshal ba.

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26. Stok: mos par gyur pa. Degé: mos par ’gyur pa.

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27. Translation tentative. Degé: bgyis shing mchod par ’tshal te. Stok: bgyis shing mchod pas ’tshal te.

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28. The bodhisattvas and hearers were served in order of seniority, with the young ones being served last.

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29. ni read as kyi according to Yongle, Lithang, Kangxi, Narthang, and Choné.

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30. sems read as sems can according to Yongle, Lithang, Kangxi, Narthang, Choné, and Lhasa.

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31. Translated based on Stok: las. Degé: la.

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32. Stok: dang. Degé: dad.

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33. Here and below “immediacy” translates the same term as “immediate results” (mtshams med pa). The same term with these two meanings is used in a play on words.

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34. ja gong read as ja hong according to Kangxi and Lhasa.

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35. Tib. mi g.yo ba. The attested Sanskrit reads ākhyātāvī, which is an odd and otherwise unattested Sanskrit term that does not align with the Tibetan translation. As noted by Harrison and Hartmann (2000, p. 209 note 113), the Chinese terms used in Taishō 626 and 627 are also not equivalent to ākhyātāvī. The Chinese of Taishō 627 agrees with the Tibetan mi g.yo ba.

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36. Translation tentative. Tibetan: der ni bcom ldan ’das kyis dgongs par bgyi mi ’tshal lo.

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37. This name is translated based on Stok: bstan bzang ba. Degé: bltan bzang.