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The '''''King of Samadhi Sutra''''' (Skt. ''Samādhirāja Sūtra''; Tib. [[ཏིང་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་པོ་|ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ་]], ''ting ngé dzin gyi gyalpö do'', [[Wyl.]] ''ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo'') aka the '''''Moon Lamp Sutra''''' (Skt. ''Candrapradīpa Sūtra''; Tib. ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོན་མེའི་མདོ་, ''dawa drönmé do'', Wyl. ''zla ba sgron me'i mdo'') is a famous [[mahayana]] [[sutra]] that is frequently cited in [[Madhyamika]] [[treatise]]s, as well as teachings on [[Mahamudra]].

==Text==
The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the ''[[General Sutra]]'' section ([[Toh.]] 127) of the [[Kangyur]] (Derge edition). The translators from Sanskrit to Tibetan were [[Shilendrabodhi]] and Chönyi Tsultrim.

The full Tibetan title is: (Wyl.) '''phags pa chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/''
Sanskrit title: 
''arya-sarvadharmasvbhavasamatavipancitasamadhirja-namamahayanasutra''
*{{TBRCW|O1GS12980|O1GS1298001JW13625$W22084|མདོ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, ''mdo ting nge ‘dzin gyi rgyal po''}}

==English Translations==
*'The Sūtra of the King of Samādhis: Chapters I-IV' in Luis O. Gómez and Jonathan A. Silk (ed.s), ''Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts''
*Konstanty Régamey, ''Philosophy in the Samādhirājasūtra'', Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi 1990), reprint of 1938 Warsaw edition. (Includes Sanskrit, Tibetan and English versions of chapters 8, 19 and 22)
*84000: {{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-055-001.html|The King of Samādhis Sūtra}}

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==Further Reading==
*Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, ''King of Samadhi''. Rangjung Yeshe Publications
*Skilton, Andrew. ''Samādhirājasūtra'', contained in: Jens Braarvig, Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda, Lore Sander, ed., Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, Volume II (Hermes Academic Publishing (Oslo 2002), pp. 97-178.
*Skilton, Andrew. 'Dating the Samādhirāja Sūtra ' in ''Journal of Indian Philosophy'', Volume 27, Number 6, 635-652

==Internal Links==
*[[Chandraprabha]]

==External Links==
*[http://www.rinpoche.com/samadisutra.html Overview of the sutra by Thrangu Rinpoche]

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