Toh 546 notes: Notes
Mañjuśrī’s Sworn Oath notes
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1. Similar statements are made by the bodhisattva Siṃhanāda in The Dhāraṇī of the Promise Made by Siṃhanāda , the bodhisattva Maitreya in The Dhāraṇī “Maitreya’s Pledge,” and Ārya Tārā in The Dhāraṇī “Tārā’s Own Promise,” all of which include the Tibetan term dam bcas pa in their titles.
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2. Bhattacharyya 1968, pp. 47–48, 52, 54. The statement can be found in two works with the title Siṃhanādasādhana (sādhana nos. 17 and 21) and the Siṃhanādadhāraṇī (no. 23). An example of this statement from the Siṃhanādadhāraṇī reads, “If this is not accomplished after seven, thirteen, or twenty-one days, even for one who has committed the five misdeeds with immediate retribution, I myself will be one who has committed the five misdeeds with immediate retribution” (yadi saptame divase trayodaśe divase ekaviṃśatitame vā divase pañcānantaryakāriṇo ’pi na sidhyaty ayaṃ tadā ’ham eva pañcānantaryakārī bhaviṣyāmi).
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3. Three of the six texts in this series (Toh 545, Toh 548, and Toh 549) are listed in the Denkarma and Phangthangma catalogs, while three (Toh 546, Toh 547, and Toh 550) are not.
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4. The Denkarma catalog is usually dated to ca. 812 ce.
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5. Butön Rinchen Drup (bu ston rin chen grub), chos ’byung, folio 172.a/p. 975.
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6. This text, Toh 893, 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 893 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 893, , for details.
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7. Or perhaps “the entire Dharma, which is in essence all the buddhas.”
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8. Toh 846 reads kṛta kṛta krida krida krīṭa krīṭa. Toh 893 reads krida krida kṛta kṛta, exchanging the order of these combinations and omitting krīṭa krīṭa.
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9. Provisional translation: “Homage to all the tathāgatas, homage to the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī! Oṁ, Mañjuvara Mañjughoṣa, strike, strike, cook, cook, mata mata, churn, churn, crush, crush, act, act, split, split, break, break, possess, possess, tuṭa tuṭa, split, split, burst, burst! O captivator of hearts, homage to you! You who cause to understand, enter, enter, lota lota, cut, cut, krida krida, play, play, laugh, laugh, tightly bind, bind, possess, possess, hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ phaṭ phaṭ phaṭ, svāhā!”