འཕགས་པ་བསམ་གྱས་མ་ཁྱབ་པའ་རྒྱལ་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes

The Sūtra of King of the Inconceivable notes

Language: English

Notes

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1. See Subhashita Translation Group, trans., The Chapter on The Scale of Life , Toh 44-37 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022).

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2. See Subhashita Translation Group, trans., Expounding the Qualities of the Thus-Gone Ones’ Buddhafields , Toh 104 (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2022).

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3. This sūtra was edited and translated in Vinītā 2010.

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4. See Denkarma, folio 299.b, and Herrmann-Pfandt, p. 116.

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5. As indicated at the beginning of the sūtra, it was the bodhisattva King of the Inconceivable who delivered this discourse. Nonetheless, “the Blessed One” appears to refer to Śākyamuni here.

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6. Based on the Tibetan syntax, it does appear that King of the Inconceivable is praising his own words in this passage.