འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་ཞང་ག་ཡན་ཏན་བཀད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes: Notes

The Array of Virtues of Mañjuśrī’s Buddha Realm notes

Language: English

Notes

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1. Three brief passages from this text are, however, cited in Śāntideva’s Śikṣāsamuccaya (Toh 3940), which survives in Sanskrit.

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2. Wen shu shi li fo tu yan jing jing 文殊師利佛土嚴淨經 (Taishō 318).

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3. Wen shu shi li shou ji hui 文殊師利授記會 (Taishō 310–15).

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4. Da sheng wen shu shi li pusa zan fo fa shen li 大聖文殊師利菩薩讚佛法身禮 (Taishō 1195).

6. The Denkarma catalog is dated to c. 812 ce. In it, The Array of Virtues of Mañjuśrī’s Buddha Realm is included in the Heap of Jewels section. Denkarma, 296.a.1. See also Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, 24–25, no. 39.

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7. Translated according to Peking Yongle, Peking Kangxi, Narthang, and Lhasa (Zhol): rga. Degé: dga’.

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8. Translated according to Narthang: gsal ba. Degé: bsal ba.

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9. Translated according to Peking Yongle, Lithang, and Choné: smras pa. Degé: smas pa.

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10. Translated according to Peking Yongle, Peking Kangxi, Narthang, and Lhasa (Zhol): zhe sa. Degé: rje sa.

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11. Translation tentative. Translation according to Narthang and Lhasa (Zhol): kun ’ged. Degé: kun dged.

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12. Translation tentative. Tibetan: rang rta.

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13. This refers to the preceding list comprising nature, suchness, essence, emptiness, voidness of form, and reality.

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14. We have translated this part of the sentence rather loosely in order for this paragraph to make sense. The Tibetan only says, “With the exception of a single thus-gone one” (de bzhin shegs pa gcig ma gtogs pa ni).

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15. Samantadarśin means “all seeing.”

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16. Translated according to Lhasa (Zhol): lus. Degé: las.

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17. Translated according to Narthang and Lhasa (Zhol): bltas. Degé: byas.

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18. Translated according to Peking Yongle, Narthang, and Lhasa (Zhol): kyi. Degé: kyis.