Toh 536 notes: Notes
Recollecting the Common Essence of the Tathāgatas notes
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1. A text with the same title and which appears to have similar content is listed in Dalton and van Schaik’s catalog as the sixth text included in IOL Tib-J 312. However, that manuscript has not yet been digitized and, therefore, does not appear on the International Dunhuang Project’s webpage, so we were unable to ascertain with full certainty that it is the same text. Dalton and van Schaik’s summary mentions that the dhāraṇī in IOL Tib-J 312.6 serves the purpose of clearing away karmic obscurations, which is also mentioned in the present text, so it is likely to be the same as the present dhāraṇī. The immediately following text in IOL Tib-J 312.7 also bears the same title and a similar description to Toh 537, increasing the likelihood that these two works in the Degé Kangyur are the same as those that appear in the same order in IOL Tib-J 312.
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2. 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 536 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 of the Toh 536 version of this text.
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3. This text, Toh 869, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus, waM), 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. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 869 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 869, , for details.