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The '''[[King of Samadhi Sutra]]''' (Skt. ''[[Samādhirāja Sūtra]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo]]'') aka the '''[[Moon Lamp Sutra]]''' (Skt. ''[[Candrapradīpa]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[zla ba sgron me'i mdo]]'') is a famous [[mahayana sutra]] that is frequently cited in [[Madhyamika]] [[treatise]]s, as well as teachings on [[Mahamudra]]. | The '''[[King of Samadhi Sutra]]''' (Skt. ''[[Samādhirāja Sūtra]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo]]'') aka the '''[[Moon Lamp Sutra]]''' (Skt. ''[[Candrapradīpa]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[zla ba sgron me'i mdo]]'') is a famous [[mahayana sutra]] that is frequently cited in [[Madhyamika]] [[treatise]]s, as well as teachings on [[Mahamudra]]. | ||
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འདི་ན་སྣོད་མིན་སེམས་ཅན་གང་ཡང་མེད། །<br />}} | འདི་ན་སྣོད་མིན་སེམས་ཅན་གང་ཡང་མེད། །<br />}} | ||
| − | The essence of the sugatas pervades all beings.<br /> | + | The [[essence]] of the [[sugatas]] pervades all [[beings]].<br /> |
| − | Generate the most vast and sublime of intentions,<br /> | + | Generate the most vast and [[sublime]] of {{Wiki|intentions}},<br /> |
| − | For each and every being has the cause of | + | For each and every being has the [[cause]] of [[awakening]]—<br /> |
| − | There is not a single sentient being who lacks this potential.<br /> | + | There is not a single [[sentient being]] who lacks this potential.<br /> |
:::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | :::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | ||
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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་མཉམ་བཞག་ཅེས་བྱ། །<br />}} | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་མཉམ་བཞག་ཅེས་བྱ། །<br />}} | ||
| − | His pure body is the colour of gold,<br /> | + | His [[pure]] [[body]] is the {{Wiki|colour}} of {{Wiki|gold}},<br /> |
| − | Beautiful is the Protector of the World.<br /> | + | Beautiful is the [[Protector]] of the [[World]].<br /> |
| − | Whoever visualizes him like this,<br /> | + | Whoever [[visualizes]] him like this,<br /> |
| − | Practises the meditation of the bodhisattvas.<br /> | + | Practises the [[meditation]] of the [[bodhisattvas]].<br /> |
:::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | :::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | ||
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མཁས་པས་དབུ་ལའང་གནས་པར་ཡོང་མི་བྱེད། །<br />}} | མཁས་པས་དབུ་ལའང་གནས་པར་ཡོང་མི་བྱེད། །<br />}} | ||
| − | Existence and non-existence are extremes,<br /> | + | [[Existence]] and [[non-existence]] are [[extremes]],<br /> |
| − | Purity and impurity are extremes as well,<br /> | + | [[Purity]] and [[impurity]] are [[extremes]] as well,<br /> |
| − | Thus, having relinquished both extremes,<br /> | + | Thus, having relinquished both [[extremes]],<br /> |
| − | The wise do not dwell even in the middle.<br /> | + | The [[wise]] do not dwell even in the middle.<br /> |
:::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | :::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | ||
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ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །<br />}} | ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །<br />}} | ||
| − | If, in her dream, a young girl<br /> | + | If, in her [[dream]], a young girl<br /> |
| − | Has a baby boy who later dies,<br /> | + | Has a baby boy who later [[dies]],<br /> |
| − | She feels joy at first, then | + | She [[feels]] [[joy]] at first, then [[grief]]—<br /> |
Know all things to be like this. <br /> | Know all things to be like this. <br /> | ||
:::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | :::''[[Buddha Shakyamuni|Śākyamuni]]'', [[King of Samadhi Sutra|King of Samādhi Sūtra]] | ||
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ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །<br />}} | ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །<br />}} | ||
| − | Just as a magician makes illusions<br /> | + | Just as a [[Wikipedia:Magician(paranormal)|magician]] makes [[illusions]]<br /> |
| − | Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,<br /> | + | Of [[horses]], oxen, carts and other things,<br /> |
Nothing whatsoever is as it appears—<br /> | Nothing whatsoever is as it appears—<br /> | ||
Know all things to be like this.<br /> | Know all things to be like this.<br /> | ||
Revision as of 07:42, 13 March 2014
The King of Samadhi Sutra (Skt. Samādhirāja Sūtra; Wyl. ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo) aka the Moon Lamp Sutra (Skt. Candrapradīpa; Wyl. zla ba sgron me'i mdo) is a famous mahayana sutra that is frequently cited in Madhyamika treatises, as well as teachings on Mahamudra.
Tibetan Texts
- This sutra can be found in the Kangyur (Derge edition), Volume 55, folios 1r. to 170v., where the full Tibetan title is: (Wyl.) 'phags pa chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
Sanskrit title: arya-sarvadharmasvbhavasamatavipancitasamadhirja-namamahayanasutra
The translators from Sanskrit to Tibetan were: (Wyl.) rgya gar gyi mkhan po shI len dra bo d+hi dang / zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba ban+de d+harma tA shI la
Translations
- 'The Sūtra of the King of Samādhis: Chapters I-IV' in Luis O. Gómez and Jonathan A. Silk (ed.s), Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts
- Konstanty Régamey, Philosophy in the Samādhirājasūtra, Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi 1990), reprint of 1938 Warsaw edition. (Includes Sanskrit, Tibetan and English versions of chapters 8, 19 and 22)
Famous Quotations
སེམས་ནི་རྒྱ་ཆེན་མཆོག་ཏུ་རབ་བསྐྱེད་དེ། །
འགྲོ་བ་འདི་དག་མ་ལུས་སངས་རྒྱས་རྒྱུ། །
The essence of the sugatas pervades all beings.
Generate the most vast and sublime of intentions,
For each and every being has the cause of awakening—
There is not a single sentient being who lacks this potential.
འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་ཀུན་ཏུ་མཛེས་པ་སྟེ། །
དམིགས་པ་དེ་ལ་གང་གི་སེམས་འཇོག་པ། །
His pure body is the colour of gold,
Beautiful is the Protector of the World.
Whoever visualizes him like this,
Practises the meditation of the bodhisattvas.
གཙང་དང་མི་གཙང་འདི་ཡང་མཐའ་ཡིན་སྟེ། །
དེ་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀའི་མཐའ་ནི་རབ་སྤངས་ནས། །
Existence and non-existence are extremes,
Purity and impurity are extremes as well,
Thus, having relinquished both extremes,
The wise do not dwell even in the middle.
བུ་ཕོ་བྱུང་ཞིང་ཤི་བ་དེ་མཐོང་ན། །
བྱུང་ནས་དགའ་ཞིང་ཤི་ནས་མི་དགའ་ལྟར། །
If, in her dream, a young girl
Has a baby boy who later dies,
She feels joy at first, then grief—
Know all things to be like this.
རྟ་དང་གླང་པོ་ཤིང་རྟ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བྱས། །
དེ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་སྣང་བ་གང་ཡང་མེད། །
Just as a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
Nothing whatsoever is as it appears—
Know all things to be like this.
Further Reading
- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, King of Samadhi. Rangjung Yeshe Publications
- Skilton, Andrew. Samādhirājasūtra, contained in: Jens Braarvig, Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda, Lore Sander, ed., Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, Volume II (Hermes Academic Publishing (Oslo 2002), pp. 97-178.
- Skilton, Andrew. 'Dating the Samādhirāja Sūtra ' in Journal of Indian Philosophy, Volume 27, Number 6, 635-652
