འཕགས་པ་གྲགས་ལྡན་མའ་གཟངས notes: Notes

The Yaśovatī Dhāraṇī notes

Language: English

Notes

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1. In The Good Eon, the buddhas Dhārmika, Ajitagaṇa, Suvayas, Maṇicandra, Arthamati, and Siṃhabala all have mothers named “Endowed with Fame”. See The Good Eon, (Bhadrakalpika, Toh 94), ; ; ; ; ; . A goddess named grags ldan ma appears in The Play in Full as a protector of the southern quadrant, but in this case the underlying Sanskrit appears to be Yaśamatī, a synonym for Yaśovatī. See The Play in Full (Lalitavistara, Toh 95), . A woman named grags ldan ma also appears as the wife of the general Siṁha (Tib. seng ge) in The Hundred Exemplary Tales, Beginning with That of Pūrṇa, Toh 343, who demonstrates her great devotion and is prophesied to become a completely perfect buddha named rin chen ldan after perfecting the bodhisattva path for three countless eons. See gang po la sogs pa’i rtogs pa brjod pa brgya ba (Pūrṇapramukhāvadānaśataka), Toh 343, Degé Kangyur vol. 75 (mdo sde, am), folios 5.a–7.b. Edgerton also suggests that the name Yaśovatī functions as a synonym for the bodhisattva Siddhārtha’s wife. See Edgerton 1953, p. 445.

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2. Goddesses with the names Yaśovatī and Yaśavatī (both rendered in Tibetan as grags ldan ma) appear first as the name of a vidyā queen and then as the name of a dhūtī within Vajrapāṇi’s retinue. See The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī, ; ; .

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3. A goddess with the name grags ldan ma is associated here with the goddess Bhṛkuṭī. See rnam par snang mdzad mngon par rdzogs par byang chub pa’i rgyud (Vairocanābhisambodhitantra), Toh 494, Degé Kangyur vol. 86 (rgyud, tha), folio 234.b.

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4. The first two of these references are reproduced from the opening chapter of The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī, so this note only mentions the latter two instances, which are unique to The Root Manual of the Rites of the Blessed Noble Tārā. See ral pa rgyen brdses kyi rtog pa chen po (Ūrdhvajaṭamahākalpamahābodhisattvavikurvāṇapaṭalavistarād bhagavatyāryatārāmūlakalpanāma), Toh 724, Degé Kangyur vol. 94 (rgyud ’bum, tsha), folios 151.a and 151.b.

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5. Here grags ldan ma appears in a retinue of fourteen rākṣasīs who protected the bodhisattva when he was in his mother’s womb. See Great Upholder of the Secret Mantra (Mahāmantrānudhāriṇī, Toh 563), .

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6. Here grags ldan ma appears as one of eight vidyā queens in the lotus family. See The Tantra of Subādhu’s Questions (Subāhuparipṛcchātantra, Toh 805), .

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7. See legs par grub par byed pa’i rgyud chen po las sgrub pa’i thabs rim par phye ba (Susiddhikaramahātantrasādhanopāyikapaṭala), Toh 807, Degé Kangyur vol. 96 (rgyud ’bum, wa), folio 218.a.

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8. See Divākaracandra, dpal he ru ka ’byung ba zhes bya ba’i dkyil ’khor gyi cho ga (Śrīherukabhūtanāmamaṇḍalavidhi), Toh 1261, Degé Tengyur vol. 9 (rgyud, nya), folio 288.a; Kambalapāda, dpal ’khor lo sdom pa’i dka’ ’grel sgrub pa’i thabs kyi gleng gzhi zhes bya ba (Sādhananidānaśrīcakrasaṁvaranāmapañjikā), Toh 1401, Degé Tengyur vol. 16 (rgyud, ba), folio 50.b; Devagupta, dpal ’khor lo sdom pa’i sgrub thabs gnas thams cad rgya cher ’grel pa (Śrīcakrasaṃvarasādhanasarvaśālānāmaṭikā), Toh 1407, Degé Tengyur vol. 17 (rgyud, ma), folio 123.a; and Gayādhara, ye shes ’byung ba’i man ngag (Jñānodayopadeśa), Toh 1514, Degé Tengyur vol. 22 (rgyud, sha), folio 372.b.

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9. This text, Toh 992, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus), 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 992 version of this text within vol. 101 or 102 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 992, , for details.