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The '''King of Samadhi Sutra''' (Skt. ''Samādhirāja Sūtra''; [[Wyl.]] ''ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo'') aka the '''Moon Lamp Sutra''' (Skt. ''Candrapradīpa''; 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]].
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]].


==Tibetan Texts==
==Text==
*This sutra can be found in the [[Kangyur]] (Derge edition), Volume 55, folios 1r. to 170v., where 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/''
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:  
Sanskrit title:  
''arya-sarvadharmasvbhavasamatavipancitasamadhirja-namamahayanasutra''
''arya-sarvadharmasvbhavasamatavipancitasamadhirja-namamahayanasutra''
*{{TBRCW|O1GS12980|O1GS1298001JW13625$W22084|མདོ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, ''mdo ting nge ‘dzin gyi rgyal po''}}


The translators from Sanskrit to Tibetan were:
==English Translations==
(Wyl.) ''rgya gar gyi mkhan po shI len dra bo d+hi dang / zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba ban+de d+harma tA shI la''
 
*{{TBRC|O1GS1298001JW13625%7CW22084|མདོ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, ''mdo ting nge ‘dzin gyi rgyal po''}}
 
==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''
*'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)
*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}}
==Famous [[Quotations: Sutras|Quotations]]==
{{:Quotations: King of Samadhi Sutra, Sugata Essence Pervades all Beings}}
{{:Quotations: King of Samadhi Sutra, Meditation of the Bodhisattvas}}
{{:Quotations: King of Samadhi Sutra, The Wise Does not Dwell in Extremes}}
{{:Quotations: King of Samadhi Sutra, If, in Her Dream,...}}
{{:Quotations: King of Samadhi Sutra, Just as a Magician Makes Illusions,...}}


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
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*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. ''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
*Skilton, Andrew. 'Dating the Samādhirāja Sūtra ' in ''Journal of Indian Philosophy'', Volume 27, Number 6, 635-652
==Internal Links==
*[[Chandraprabha]]
*[[The Treasury of Blessings—A Practice of Buddha Shakyamuni]]


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


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[[Category: Texts]]
[[Category: Sutras]]
[[Category: General Sutra Section]]
[[Category: Mahayana Sutras]]

Latest revision as of 14:23, 12 October 2024

The King of Samadhi Sutra (Skt. Samādhirāja Sūtra; Tib. 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 treatises, 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

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: The King of Samādhis Sūtra

Famous Quotations

བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོས་འགྲོ་བ་ཡོངས་ལ་ཁྱབ། །

སེམས་ནི་རྒྱ་ཆེན་མཆོག་ཏུ་རབ་བསྐྱེད་དེ། །
འགྲོ་བ་འདི་དག་མ་ལུས་སངས་རྒྱས་རྒྱུ། །

འདི་ན་སྣོད་མིན་སེམས་ཅན་གང་ཡང་མེད། །

The essence of the sugatas pervades all beings.
Generate the most vast and sublime of intentions,
For each and every being has the cause of awakening—
There is not a single sentient being who lacks this potential.

Śākyamuni, King of Samādhi Sūtra


གསེར་གྱི་ཁ་དོག་ལྟ་བུའི་སྐུ་ལུས་ཀྱིས། །

འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་ཀུན་ཏུ་མཛེས་པ་སྟེ། །
དམིགས་པ་དེ་ལ་གང་གི་སེམས་འཇོག་པ། །

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་མཉམ་བཞག་ཅེས་བྱ། །

His pure body is the colour of gold,
Beautiful is the Protector of the World.
Whoever visualizes him like this,
Practises the meditation of the bodhisattvas.

Buddha Shakyamuni, King of Samadhi Sutra


ཡོད་དང་མེད་པ་འདི་ཡང་མཐའ་ཡིན་སྟེ། །

གཙང་དང་མི་གཙང་འདི་ཡང་མཐའ་ཡིན་སྟེ། །
དེ་ཕྱིར་གཉིས་ཀའི་མཐའ་ནི་རབ་སྤངས་ནས། །

མཁས་པས་དབུ་ལའང་གནས་པར་ཡོང་མི་བྱེད། །

Existence and non-existence are extremes,
Purity and impurity are extremes as well,
Thus, having relinquished both extremes,
The wise do not dwell even in the middle.

Śākyamuni, King of Samādhi Sūtra


ཇི་ལྟར་བུ་མོ་གཞོན་ནུའི་རྨི་ལམ་ན། །

བུ་ཕོ་བྱུང་ཞིང་ཤི་བ་དེ་མཐོང་ན། །
བྱུང་ནས་དགའ་ཞིང་ཤི་ནས་མི་དགའ་ལྟར། །

ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །

If, in her dream, a young girl
Has a baby boy who later dies,
She feels joy at first, then grief—
Know all things to be like this.

Śākyamuni, King of Samādhi Sūtra


སྒྱུ་མ་བྱེད་པ་དག་གི་གཟུགས་སྤྲུལ་ཏེ། །

རྟ་དང་གླང་པོ་ཤིང་རྟ་སྣ་ཚོགས་བྱས། །
དེ་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་སྣང་བ་གང་ཡང་མེད། །

ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་དེ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་གྱིས། །

Just as a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
Nothing whatsoever is as it appears—
Know all things to be like this.

Śākyamuni, King of Samādhi Sūtra


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

External Links