Avalokiteśvaraguṇakāraṇḍavyūhasūtra (Fo Shuo Dacheng Zhuangyan Bao Wang Jing) 佛說大乘莊嚴寶王經

Translated by Tian Xi Zai

Colophon

第 20 冊　No. 1050 佛說大乘莊嚴寶王經 宋 天息災譯 共 4 卷
Volume 20, No. 1050; Avalokiteśvaraguṇakāraṇḍavyūhasūtra (Fo Shuo Dacheng Zhuangyan Bao Wang Jing); Translated by Tian Xi Zai in the Song in 4 scrolls

Other names

大乘莊嚴寶王經 Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra; Japanese: Daijō shōgon hōōgyō; Tibetan: za ma tog bkod pa'i mdo; 莊嚴寶王經 Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra

Summary

The text is thought to be representative of the transition to Tantric Buddhism. It provides an extended description of the metrits of the Mantra of Six Syllables and its use in avoiding misfortune.

Notes

Sanskrit title and date 983 from Lancaster (Lancaster 2004, 'K 1088')

English translation

None

Primary Source

Tian Xi Zai, 《佛說大乘莊嚴寶王經》 'Avalokiteśvaraguṇakāraṇḍavyūhasūtra (Fo Shuo Dacheng Zhuangyan Bao Wang Jing),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 20, No. 1050, Accessed 2016-10-07, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T20n1050.

References

  1. BL, s.v. Kāraṇḍavyūha, pp. 418-419.
  2. FGDB, s.v. 大乘莊嚴寶王經.
  3. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
  4. Keyworth 2011b, p. 519.
  5. Lancaster, L.R. 2004, The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

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