འཕགས་པ་རྟན་ཅང་འབྲལ་པར་འབྱང་བའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ notes: Notes

The Essence of Dependent Arising notes

Language: English

Notes

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1. An elaborate version of the story is told in the Pravrajyāvastu, the first chapter of the Vinayavastu (Toh 1-1). For an English translation, see The Chapter on Going Forth, Toh 1-1, translated by Robert Miller and team (online publication, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2018), 1.277. For a translation of the ye dharma formula itself as it appears there, see The Chapter on Going Forth (2018), 1.292.

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2. The Pali version of the formula reads: ye dhammā hetuppabhavā tesaṃ hetuṃ tathāgato āha tesañ ca yo nirodho evaṃvādī mahāsamaṇo (Mahāvagga, p. 40; Vin I 40, 28–29).

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3. See The Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī , Toh 138, translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee (2020), 1.6–1.7. This long version of ye dharma formula seems only to occur in one additional canonical source, namely, as a maṅgalam-verse called “verse of the sage” (gtsug lag gi tshigs su bcad pa) at the end of the Amarakoṣaṭīkākāmadhenunāma .

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4. See Skilling 2003, pp. 273–74. For some examples of the extent of this practice in Buddhist Asia and further references, see The Sūtra on Dependent Arising, Toh 212, translated by the Buddhavacana Translation Group (online publication, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2016), i.3. For canonical sources in which the formula also occurs, see also The Sūtra on Dependent Arising (2016), 1.5, and an expanded Tibetan version in The Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī (2022), 1.7. For an alternative translation of the Sanskrit, see Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings (2021), .

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5. On more instances of the verse, see Dietz and Eimer, 2019.

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6. This text, Toh 981, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus, waM), are listed as being located in volume 101 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 102. 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 981 version of this text within vol. 101 or 102 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 981, , for details.

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7. See Resources for Kanjur & Tenjur Studies: http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=520&typ=1. Among Kangyurs of the Tshalpa line, this text is not found in the Lithang Kangyur.

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8. The opening lines of the table of contents (dkar chag) of an independent dhāraṇī collection printed in Beijing in 1731, found in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, identify the source of all such dhāraṇī collections as an extracanonical collection edited by Tāranātha (Orosz 2010, pp. 67 and 100). This mention is also noted by Hidas 2021, p. 7, n. 56.

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9. See Skilling 2021, pp. 247, and 273.

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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 521 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 521 version of this text.