འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས་ཀྱ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས notes: Notes
The Discourse of the Dhāraṇī of the Buddha’s Essence notes
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1. Skt. Āryabuddhahṛdayanāmadhāraṇīdharmaparyāya. D (Toh 514): viparyaya; D (Toh 854): viparyāya; S: paryāya. The Sanskrit transliteration viparyāya in the Degé for the Tibetan term rnam grangs contains the perhaps misleading prefix vi-. The usual Sanskrit for the Tibetan rnam grangs is simply paryāya, which is preserved in the Stok Palace Kangyur.
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2. This set of eight aspects that “ornament” the practice and accomplishment of the bodhisattva path is almost identical to a set of eight “ornaments of bodhisattvas” listed in The Sūtra of the Prophecy Concerning Strīvivarta (Strīvivartavyākaraṇa, Toh 190). Two of the items in the two sets are different, but the almost identical phrasing of most of the list leaves little doubt that they share a common origin. See also .
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3. dkar chag ’phang thang ma (2003), 26.
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4. Denkarma, folios 302.a.7 and 302.b.4-5; see also Yoshimura (1950), 151; 152.
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5. Butön Rinchen Drup (1965–1971), folio 247.a.
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6. 玄奘 Xuanzang. For more information on this figure, see Lewis R. Lancaster, “K 444,” The Korean Buddhist Canon.
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7. 法天 Fatian. For more information on this figure, see Lewis R. Lancaster, “K 1134,” The Korean Buddhist Canon.
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8. This latter text, Toh 854, and all those contained in the same volume (gzungs ’dus, e), are listed as being located in volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 101. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimalaprabhānāmakālacakratantraṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation.
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9. As there are signifcant variants mentioned in the notes, it should be noted that the correlating section from the eKangyur (based on the Degé) may be viewed by clicking on the folio references, which will be displayed according to the Toh number selected from the 84000 reading room: D 514 or D 854.
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10. Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud ’bum, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhimaṇḍasyālaṃkāralakṣadhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer. In the Toh 514 version of the text there is a slight discrepancy in the folio numbering between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings of the Degé Kangyur. Although the discrepancy is irrelevant here, further details concerning this may be found in note 10 of the Toh 514 version of this text.
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11. D (Toh 854): chos kyi g.ye dgon pa; D (Toh 514): chos kyi dbye/ dgon pa; S: chos kyi dbye dgon pa.
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12. D (Toh 854): thams cad kyang lun bstan pa/ thams cad kyang ’jig rten gyi khams tha dad pa nas ’dus pa; D (Toh 514), S: ’jig rten gyi khams tha dad pa nas lung stan pa/ thams cad kyang ’jig rten gyi khams tha dad pa nas ’dus pa. D (Toh 514) and S appear to unnecessarily repeat the phrase ’jig rten gyi khams tha dad pa nas. This translation follows D (Toh 854).
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13. D (Toh 854), S: sarvabuddha/ anujñānate; D (Toh 514): sarvabuddhe/ anujñānate.
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14. D (Toh 854): gcig tu yid la bya ba ni mdor na sgom pa’o; D (Toh 514): gcig tu yid la bya ba ni mdor na chos sgom pa’o; S: gcig tu yid la bya ba ni mdor na chos bsgom pa’o.
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15. D (Toh 854), S: gati; D (Toh 514): gate.
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16. D (Toh 854): samatikranti; D (Toh 514): samātikranti; S: samādhitanti.
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17. D (Toh 854), S: parimaṇḍite; D (Toh 514): parimiṇḍite.
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18. D (Toh 514): mahāpratibhānasaṃpanne; D (Toh 854): mahāpratibhānasaṃphanne; S: mahāpratibhanasaṃpanne.
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19. D (Toh 514), S: mngon par dad pa; D (Toh 854): mngon par dang ba.
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20. D (Toh 854), S: mngon dad; D (Toh 514): mngon dang.
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21. This set of eight ornaments is almost identical and also of very similar phrasing, but with the exception of two items, to a set of eight “ornaments of bodhisattvas” listed in The Sūtra of the Prophecy Concerning Strīvivarta (Strīvivartavyākaraṇa, Toh 190), F.222.b–223.a.
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22. The version in the Stok Palace Kangyur does not include a translators’ colophon.