Scripture Expounded by the Buddha on Prolonging Life Through Worship of the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper (Fo Shuo Bei Dou Qi Xing Yan Ming Jing) 佛說北斗七星延命經

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第 21 冊　No. 1307 佛說北斗七星延命經 共 1 卷
Volume 21, No. 1307; Fo Shuo Bei Dou Qi Xing Yan Ming Jing; Scripture Expounded by the Buddha on Prolonging Life Through Worship of the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper; One scroll

Summary

Contains images and talismans. Related to T 1305 and T 1306.

Notes

This text does not appear in the Korean canon. A Taishō footnote for this text reads: ＜原＞享和二年刊長谷寺藏本 Source: Hase-dera Canon, published in the second year of the Kyōwa era [1801-1804].

English translation

Orzech, Charles D. and Sanford, James H. 2000, “Worship of the Ladis of the Dipper,” In: David G. White (ed.), Tantra in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 389–392.

Primary Source

《佛說北斗七星延命經》 'Fo Shuo Bei Dou Qi Xing Yan Ming Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 21, No. 1307, Accessed 2016-10-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T21n1307.

References

1. Payne 2011, pp. 284-307.
2. Robson 2011, p. 228.

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