Ratnashikhin
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.
Buddha Ratnashikhin is included in Trulshik Rinpoche's Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
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.