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- pramana-mt · Machine translation by Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-10-21) of in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo · Machine output without human authorship: no copyright is claimed (CC0 1.0). The original text keeps its own…
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In the language of China: Da sheng jin guang ming zui sheng wang jing. In the language of Tibet: The Noble Sūtra of Mahāyāna entitled “The King of Glorious Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light”. [Bampo 1] Homage to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas! Thus have I heard at one time: The Blessed One was staying at Gṛdhrakūṭa mountain in Rājagṛha, in the utterly pure, profound realm of dharmadhātu, the sphere of activity of all Buddhas, the dwelling place of the Tathāgatas, together with a great saṅgha of ninety-eight thousand monks (bhikṣus). They were all arhats; completely purified like great lordly elephants; free of all āsravas; without kleśas; their minds fully liberated; their prajñā fully liberated; having done what was to be done; having laid down the burden; having attained their own goal; entirely free from the bonds of existence; having gained supreme mastery; abiding in pure moral discipline; adorned with the ornament of skill in upāya and prajñā; endowed with the eight liberations; having completely traversed to the other shore. Their names were as follows: the venerable Ājñātakauṇḍinya, the venerable Aśvajit, the venerable Vāṣpa, the venerable Mahānāman, the venerable Bhadrika, the venerable Mahākāśyapa, the venerable Uruvilvākāśyapa, the venerable Gayākāśyapa, the venerable Nadīkāśyapa, the venerable Śāriputra, the venerable Mahāmaudgalyāyana—and with the exception of one, namely the venerable Ānanda. When late afternoon arrived, all these great śrāvaka saṅghas arose from their respective samādhis, approached the Blessed One, bowed their heads before his feet, circumambulated him from the right...
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...the King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. [Bampo 3] Then the Blessed One engaged in correct conceptualization and entered into a very profound and exquisite samādhi. From the pores of his body, countless hundreds of thousands of rays of multicolored light radiated forth, illuminating in all ten directions immeasurable and incomparable buddhakṣetras as numerous as the sands of the River Gaṅgā. As the light illuminated the worlds of the five degenerations, sentient beings who had fallen into the hells, pretas, and animal realms because of the ten non-virtuous actions, the immediate retribution of the five heinous deeds, blaspheming the Three Jewels, disrespecting parents and elders, or treating teachers and brāhmaṇas with contempt and pride—wherever they were, the radiance of that light reached them. Upon seeing that light, and by the power of that light, they all experienced bliss and were endowed with supremely beautiful forms...
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...thoroughly comprehended it. This was the fifth chapter from the King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light: The Purification of Karmic Obscurations. The King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. [Bampo 4]
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...having heard that they venerate and make offerings to the supreme victorious King of Sūtras, and that they completely protect and guard those who hold this sūtra, he praised them saying: 'Excellent, excellent! You Four Great Kings have venerated, served, made offerings to, and honored countless hundreds of thousands of past Buddhas, generating roots of virtue through your praises, cultivating the genuine Dharma, and continually teaching the genuine Dharma. Because you tame the world in this way through the Dharma, and because for a long time you have constantly benefited sentient beings and generated the mind of great love with the wish to grant them happiness, you now enjoy this supreme maturation of karma. If any king of men venerates and makes offerings to this King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light, you must make great effort to protect him so that he may attain happiness. If you Four Great Kings, along with your retinue and countless hundreds of thousands of yakṣas, protect this sūtra, you will thereby be protecting the genuine Dharma of the Buddhas of the past, future, and present. Therefore, you Four Great Kings...'
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...the second. The King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. [Bampo 7] Then the Blessed One said to the venerable Śāriputra: 'Śāriputra, there is a teaching called the dhāraṇī of non-attachment. It is a doctrine to be accomplished by bodhisattvas, embraced by past bodhisattvas, and is the mother of bodhisattvas.' When he said this, the venerable Śāriputra said to the Blessed One: 'Blessed One, what are the words and meaning of what is called "dhāraṇī"? Blessed One, what is called dhāraṇī has neither direction nor location, nor is it without direction and location.' When he spoke thus, the Blessed One addressed the venerable Śāriputra: 'Śāriputra, because you are deeply devoted to the Mahāyāna, have great confidence in the Mahāyāna, and hold the Mahāyāna in high esteem...'
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...the twentieth chapter: The Teaching on the Genuine Treatise. The King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. [Bampo 9] Then the Blessed One addressed the vast assembly with the genuine treatise on royal conduct...
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...the King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light. [Bampo 10], the final one. Then, having recounted to the great assembly the past causes and conditions of those ten thousand devaputras, the Blessed One further addressed the goddess of the Bodhi Tree and the vast assembly: 'When I was practicing the path of a bodhisattva in past times, I did not merely preserve the lives of those fish by offering water and food, but I even completely gave up my beloved body. Together, let us examine what the causes and conditions for that were!'