འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པས་དམ་བཅས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes: Notes
The Dhāraṇī “Maitreya’s Pledge” notes
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1. This text, Toh 890, and all those contained in this 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. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 890 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 890, , for details.
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2. See: Hidas 2021. The ten manuscripts of Matireya’s Pledge in Sanskrit are: A.4 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 2015 A.6 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 1774–310 A.7 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 5/31 = NGMPP B 107–1411 A.8 Unspecified collection Ms. and Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. 250713 A.10 Asha Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. No. 2566 A.11 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Ms. No. 6224 A.13 Private collection Ms., Kathmandu = NGMPP E 614–327 A.14 University of Tokyo Library, Ms. 41929 A.16 Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Ms. No. 1334 A.18 National Archives, Kathmandu, Ms. NAK 3/641 = NGMPP A 131–1044
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3. Cishi pusa shiyuan tuoluoni jing 慈氏菩薩誓願陀羅尼經 (Maitreyapratijñādhāraṇī), Taishō 1143 (CBETA; SAT).
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4. Schaeffer 2005, p. 63.
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5. Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Losang Gyatso (tA la’I bla ma sku phreng lnga pa ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho). byams pas dam bcas pa’i gzungs kyi rjes su ’don rgyu’i smon lam tshigs bcad [An Aspiration in Verse to Accompany the Recitation of “The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge”]. In gsung ’bum ngag dbang blo bzang rgya mtsho, vol. 24, Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang, 2009, pp. 332–33. BDRC MW1PD107937_C8131D.
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6. Khenpo Jamlo (mkhan po ’jam blo), ed. byams pas dam bcas pa’i gzungs smon tshig dang bcas pa [The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge and Aspiration]. In dpal sa skya ba’i chos sde nA lendra’i gdan rabs rim byon gyi gsung ’bum, vol. 6, Lhasa: bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2016, pp. 205–6. BDRC MW3CN3418_2AF43E.
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7. Ngawang Nyima (ngag dbang nyi ma). byams pas dam bca’ pa’i gzungs kyi sngags don [The Meaning of the Mantras in “The Dhāraṇī of Maitreya’s Pledge”]. In gsung ’bum ngag dbang nyi ma, vol. 3, Drepung Gomang Library, 2003, pp. 595–96. BDRC MW28809_8FC1BA.
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8. Majer 2017, p. 71.
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9. Toh 643: aparājite is absent in C, K, KY, and L. Toh 890: aparājite is absent in C, K, KY, and L.
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10. Provisional English translation: “Homage to the Three Jewels. Homage to the blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha Śākyamuni. It is thus: Oṃ. Invincible One, Invincible One. Indomitable One. Conquer the unconquered. Capture, capture. Loving One. All-Seeing One. Bestow, bestow. The accomplishment of the great pledge. Increase, increase. The essence seed of great awakening. Remember, remember. Our pledge, awakening, awakening, great awakening. Svāhā.”
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11. Provisional English translation: “Oṃ. Deluder, deluder. Great deluder. Cleared away. Svāhā.”
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12. Provisional English translation: “Oṃ. Sage, sage. Recollect. Svāhā.”