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'''Ratnashikhin''' (Skt. ''Ratnaśikhin''; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen gtsug tor can'') — a [[buddha]] of the past mentioned in some [[sutra]]s, such as ''[[The Chapter on Medicines]]'', and [[Kriya tantra]]s such as ''The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri''. In this latter context, he presented as the first of eight blessed buddhas. | '''Ratnashikhin''' (Skt. ''Ratnaśikhin''; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen gtsug tor can'') — a [[buddha]] of the past mentioned in some [[sutra]]s, such as ''[[The Chapter on Medicines]]'', and [[Kriya tantra]]s such as ''The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri''. In this latter context, he presented as the first of eight blessed buddhas. <br> | ||
Previously, when this tathāgata was practicing bodhisattva conduct, he made this commitment: “May anyone in the world realms in the ten directions who hears my name at the time of their death, after passing away, be reborn as a deva in Trāyastriṃśa (The [[Heaven of the Thirty-Three]]).”<ref>https://read.84000.co/translation/toh555.html#UT22084-089-012-2781</ref> | |||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 13:39, 3 December 2023
Ratnashikhin (Skt. Ratnaśikhin; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, Wyl. rin chen gtsug tor can) — a buddha of the past mentioned in some sutras, such as The Chapter on Medicines, and Kriya tantras such as The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri. In this latter context, he presented as the first of eight blessed buddhas.
Previously, when this tathāgata was practicing bodhisattva conduct, he made this commitment: “May anyone in the world realms in the ten directions who hears my name at the time of their death, after passing away, be reborn as a deva in Trāyastriṃśa (The Heaven of the Thirty-Three).”[1]
Notes
Further Reading
- Tournier, Vincent, Buddhas of the Past: South Asia, in: Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives. Ed. J. Silk, R. Bowring, V. Eltschinger, and M. Radich. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019), 95–108.
- Tudkeao, Chanwit, Once Upon in Ratnaśikhin Buddha’s Lifetime: Legends of Ratnaśikhin Buddha in India and Beyond, in: P. Skilling & J. McDaniel, eds., Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond, vol. I, (Bangkok: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2012), 49–57.
Internal Links
- Buddha Ratnashikhin is included in Trulshik Rinpoche's Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.