Kangyur — General Sūtras – page 6

Toh 742: The Spell for Attaining the Supreme

Toh 750: The Dhāraṇī “Vajra Conqueror”

Summary In this concise text, Vajrapāṇi, through the power and blessings of the Buddha and all bodhisattvas, proclaims a series of powerful dhāraṇī-mantras. The text concludes with verses on the benefits of the dhāraṇī and a simple ablution ritual.

Toh 754: The Essence of the Ten Vajrapāṇis

Toh 757: The Sūtra of Great Strength

Toh 759: The Vow of the Nāga Vajratuṇḍa

Toh 763: Black Lohatuṇḍa

Toh 765: The Practice of the Yakṣa Maṇibhadra

Toh 766: Practice of the Sublime Dancer, Chief of the Army of Yakṣas

Toh 770: The Extant Practice of Jambhalajalendra

Toh 771: The Hundred and Eight Names of Jambhala

Toh 773: Mahāśvāsa, King of Spells

Toh 777: Purifying the Offerings

Toh 808: The Section on the Higher States of Meditative Absorption

Toh 809: The King of Dedications, the Teaching on Skillfulness in the Great Jewel

Toh 810: The King of Dedications

Toh 813: The Aspiration Prayer from the Words Spoken in “Destroyer of the Great Trichiliocosm”

Summary This short text contains a set of verses spoken by the Buddha as he put an end to the epidemic of Vaiśālī, extracted from one of the two main accounts of that episode. The verses call for well-being, especially by invoking the qualities of the Three Jewels and a range of realized beings and eminent gods. The text comprises two passages from the parent work, and of these the first and longest corresponds closely to a well-known Pali text, the Ratana-sutta , widely recited for protection and blessings.

Toh 814: Untitled

Toh 815: A Prayer from The Series of Gifts

Toh 816: Untitled

Toh 817: Verses of Well-wishing

Toh 818: Verses of Well-wishing

Toh 819: Untitled

Toh 820: The Verses of Auspiciousness for the Thirty-Seven Deities

Toh 821: Untitled

Toh 822: Verses of Auspiciousness for the Five Tathāgatas

Toh 823: Untitled

Toh 824: Untitled

Toh 825: Untitled

Toh 826: Verses of Auspiciousness

Toh 827: Untitled

Toh 828: The Sovereign, All-Creating Mind of Enlightenment

Toh 829: The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness (or The Sūtra that Gathers All Intentions)

Toh 830: The Lightning Wheel of Magnificent Gnosis

Toh 831: The Sūtra of All-Gathering Awareness

Toh 833: The Magical Net of Vajrasattva, the Mirror of All Secrets

Toh 837: The Great Guru, from The Secret Nucleus Definitive With Respect to the Real

Toh 841-1: The Sap of the Five Amṛtas, Quintessence of Great Accomplishment

Toh 841-2: Homage to Brahmā and Other Sages, Deities, Nāgas, and Human Bodhisattvas

Toh 841-3: Homage to the Blessed One, the Great King of Non-Duality

Toh 841-4: [Liberating the Five Great Fruits??]

Toh 841-5: Homage to the Sugatas of the Five Families

Toh 841-6: Homage to Amṛtakuṇḍalī

Toh 841-7: Transmission of the Vase of Amṛta

Toh 841-8: Homage to the Blessed Mañjuśrī the Intelligent

Toh 845: Untitled

Toh 846: The Threefold Invocation Ritual

Summary The Threefold Invocation Ritual invokes all the deities of the threefold world that have “entered the path of compassion” and are “held by the hook of the vidyāmantra ” to gather, pay heed to the person reciting this text (or the person for whom it is recited), and bear witness to the proclamation of that person’s commitment to the Buddhist teachings. A profound aspiration to practice ten aspects of a bodhisattva’s activity is then followed by a dedication and a prayer for the teachings.

Toh 846a: Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha Adam Krug Rory Lindsay, Dr. Stella Bonnie Ryan Damron Dr. John Canti Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche v 1.1.13 2021 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha is a global non-profit initiative to translate all the Buddha’s words into modern languages, and to make them available to everyone. This work is provided under the protection of a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non-commercial - No-derivatives) 3.0 copyright. It may be copied or printed for fair use, but only with full attribution, and not for commercial advantage or personal compensation. For full details, see the Creative Commons license. An early mistake in the assigning of UT numbers within the 84000 project means that these ids diverge slightly from the standard logic. 2020-02-17 Toh 846a Degé Kangyur, vol. 100 (gzungs ’dus, e), folio 3.b 01/03/2023 17:09:07 v 0.1.0 2.d 2.e 2.b 2.a 2 First published version. First published version. Published and proofread "catalogue" to "catalog" in note Minor correction. Added line to acknowledgement Auto (TEI migration 2.0.0) Auto (update-contributors) Moved translation title from titleHon to titleMain Auto (TEI migration 2.1.5) "Compendium of Incantations" to "Compendium of Dhāraṇīs" Auto (script-increment-version-published) Auto (script-increment-version-published) Auto (remove-tid-from-back-list-items) Contents Summary Acknowledgments Introduction The Translation: The Threefold Ritual Notes Bibliography Summary The Threefold Ritual

Summary The Threefold Ritual contains a short liturgy for invoking the pantheon of worldly deities, inviting these beings to seize the rare opportunity to listen to the Dharma, and proclaiming the aspiration that all the worldly beings that have gathered to hear the Dharma receive their share of the merit one has generated.

Toh 1067: The Sūtra of the Eight Iluminations

Toh 1090: Praising the Lady Who Rules Disease

Summary Praising the Lady Who Rules Disease , or, as it is alternatively titled, Eight Verses Praising Śrīdevī Mahākālī , is a short praise to the Dharma protector Śrīdevī Mahākālī. The text is included in the Compendium of Dhāraṇīs section of the Degé Kangyur as well as in the Tantra section of the Degé Tengyur.

Toh 1091: In Praise of the Goddess Revatī

Summary In Praise of the Goddess Revatī includes a short praise to the goddess Revatī along with a dhāraṇī extracted from The Great Tantra of Supreme Knowledge (Toh 746). The praise itself is just a few lines long and addresses Revatī’s characteristics—her body is said to be made of gems and precious substances—and her familial lineage.

Toh 1095: The Noble King of Prayers of Good Conduct

Homage to Noble Mañjuśrīkumārabhūta.

Toh 1096: The Prayer of Maitreya

Toh 1096: The Prayer of Maitreya

Toh 1097: The Prayer of Sublime Action

Toh 1107: Untitled

Toh 4568-1: Chapter 1: How the Wheel of Dharma was Turned, and History of the Compilation of the Teachings

Summary Toh 4568 ch. 1-5: More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.

Toh 4568-2: Chapter 2: Overview of How Those Teachings Were Preserved in This World

Summary Toh 4568 ch. 1-5: More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.

Toh 4568-3: The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print

Summary Toh 4568 ch. 1-5: More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.

Toh 4568-4: Chapter 4: Main Catalogue and Index

Summary Toh 4568 ch. 1-5: More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.

Toh 4568-5: Chapter 5: Purpose and Benefits of This Publication, Together with Dedication Prayers

Summary Toh 4568 ch. 1-5: More than a mere table of contents, the Degé Kangyur Catalogue is a detailed introduction to the Kangyur as a whole and this particular edition itself. It constitutes the entirety of the 103rd and final volume of the Kangyur and was written by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774 CE), who presided over the publication of the Degé Kangyur as its chief editor. The first three chapters of the catalog give a detailed history of Indian Buddhism and its arrival in Tibet while the final two give an account of all the texts included in the canon and an explanation of the merits of producing a Kangyur edition.

The Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Ocean of Dharma”

The Sūtra on What Mendicants Hold Most Dear

Summary What Mendicants Hold Most Dear contains the Buddha’s answer to a question by Upāli, the Buddha’s foremost disciple in knowledge and mastery of the Vinaya. Upāli asks the Buddha to teach about the nature, types, and obligations of mendicants and about the meaning of this term. For the benefit of the assembled mendicants and mendicants in general, the Buddha explains that their nature is restraint, their obligations consist of disciplined conduct, and their types are the genuine mendicants who abide by disciplined conduct and those who are not genuine and thus do not so abide. When one of the Buddha’s answers given in similes seems obscure, he offers further clarification upon Upāli’s request. The Buddha explains the advantages of maintaining disciplined conduct, thus urging the mendicants to treasure it, and he warns against disregarding it while wearing the mendicant’s robes.

The Father and Mother Sūtra

The Noble Dharma Discourse “Describing the Benefits of Producing Representations of the Thus-Gone One”

Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche Laura Goetz v 2.2.4 2021 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha is a global non-profit initiative to translate all the Buddha’s words into modern languages, and to make them available to everyone. This work is provided under the protection of a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non-commercial - No-derivatives) 3.0 copyright. It may be copied or printed for fair use, but only with full attribution, and not for commercial advantage or personal compensation. For full details, see the Creative Commons license. 2018-01-01 Toh 337 Degé Kangyur, vol. 72, (mdo sde, sa), folios 275.a–277.a 28/07/2023 12:31:19 Note added retrospectively based on publication date Note added retrospectively based on publication date v 1.23 2019 v 1.24 2019 Publication statement updated Updated biblScope to be consistent with other texts Changes to wording of main passages, addition of mention of Toh 6 and Toh 340 in Intro and Bibliography, addition of Chung article to notes and bibliography Further changes to notes and other details. One "as such" removed Modified translation of lists of beings in 1.13 and 1.14 (had forgotten to close file) Further changes to 1.13 and 1.14 Auto (TEI migration 2.0.0) Auto (TEI migration 2.1.5) minor typo in glossary Corrected two notes referencing parallels. Auto (script-increment-version-published) Auto (removing-tid-from-back-list-items) Updated "Blissful One" to "Well-Gone One" Summary The Sūtra of the Wheel of Dharma

Summary The Sūtra of the Wheel of Dharma contains the Buddha’s teaching to his five former spiritual companions on the four truths that he had discovered as part of his awakening: (1) suffering, (2) the origin of suffering, (3) the cessation of suffering, and (4) the path leading to the cessation of suffering. According to all the Buddhist traditions, this is the first teaching the Buddha gave to explain his awakened insight to others.

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Questions of the Householder Vīradatta”

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant”

Summary In The Questions of Bhadrapāla the Merchant , the Buddha’s principal interlocutor is a wealthy merchant who asks him to explain what consciousness is, and what happens to it when one dies and is reborn. In his characterization of consciousness, the Buddha relies heavily on the use of analogies drawn from nature. The sūtra also reflects common cultural beliefs of ancient India, such as spirit possession. In addition, it presents graphic and vividly contrasting descriptions of rebirth in the realms of the gods for those who have lived meritorious lives and in the realms of hell for those who lack merit.