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'''''Fortunate Aeon Sutra''''' (Skt. ''Bhadrakalpikasūtra''; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་མདོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bskal pa bzang po’i mdo'') ([[Toh.]] 94) — a [[Mahayana]] [[sutra]] taught by [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] in [[Vaishali]] at the request of Bodhisattva Pramuditarāja, which describes in detail the [[1002 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon]]. It is found in the first volume of the sutra section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]]. The original Sanskrit text is now lost.
'''''Fortunate Aeon Sutra''''' (Skt. ''Bhadrakalpikasūtra''; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་མདོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bskal pa bzang po’i mdo'') — a [[Mahayana]] [[sutra]] taught by [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] in [[Vaishali]] at the request of Bodhisattva Pramuditaraja, which describes in detail the [[1002 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon]]. The original Sanskrit text is now lost.


==Early Translations==
==Early Translations==
*First translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Vidyākarasiṁha and Bandé Palyang.
*Tibetan translation revised in the 9th century by [[Kawa Paltsek]]
*Chinese translation by Dharmarakṣa.
*Chinese translation by Dharmarakṣa.
==Tibetan Text==
First translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Vidyākarasiṁha and Bandé Palyang. Translation revised in the 9th century by [[Kawa Paltsek]].
*[[General Sutra]] section, [[Toh.]] 94


==English Translations==
==English Translations==

Revision as of 15:32, 25 February 2020

Fortunate Aeon Sutra (Skt. Bhadrakalpikasūtra; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་མདོ་, Wyl. bskal pa bzang po’i mdo) — a Mahayana sutra taught by Buddha Shakyamuni in Vaishali at the request of Bodhisattva Pramuditaraja, which describes in detail the 1002 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon. The original Sanskrit text is now lost.

Early Translations

  • Chinese translation by Dharmarakṣa.

Tibetan Text

First translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Vidyākarasiṁha and Bandé Palyang. Translation revised in the 9th century by Kawa Paltsek.

English Translations

  • The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Became Enlightened (Tibetan Translation Series), 4 volume set (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1986).

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