One Syllable Buddhosnisa Wheel Turning Ruler Sutra (Yizi Fo Ding Lunwang Jing) 一字佛頂輪王經

Translated by Bodhiruci

Colophon

第 19 冊　No. 951 一字佛頂輪王經 唐 菩提流志譯 共 5 卷
Volume 19, No. 951; Yizi Fo Ding Lunwang Jing; One Syllable Buddhosnisa Wheel Turning Ruler Sutra; Translated by Bodhiruci in the Tang in 5 scrolls

Other names

五佛頂經 Five Buddha Crowns Sutra; Sanskrit: Ekākṣara-buddhoṣṇīṣa-cakra-rāja-sūtra; Japanese: Ichiji butchō rinnōkyō

Summary

The text describes the Buddha's place of enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree and describes the 一字頂輪王咒 'One Syllable Pinancle Wheel Turning Ruler Mantra'. The text is one of a group that describes a 一字 'one word' mantra, which is a magic word.

Notes

Date 709 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 425')

English translations

None

Primary Source

Bodhiruci, 《一字佛頂輪王經》 'Yizi Fo Ding Lunwang Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 19, No. 951, Accessed 2016-10-02, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T19n0951.

References

  1. Abé, R 1999, p. 547.
  2. FGDB, s.v. 一字佛頂輪王經.
  3. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
  4. Lancaster 2004, 'K 425'.

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