Yujia Jingang Ding Jing Shi Zimu Pin (Explanation of Characters in the Yoga Vajra Crown Tantra) 瑜伽金剛頂經釋字母品

Translated by Amoghavajra

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第 18 冊　No. 880 瑜伽金剛頂經釋字母品 唐 不空譯 共 1 卷
Volume 18, No. 880, Yujia Jingang Ding Jing Shi Zimu Pin, Explanation of Characters in the Yoga Vajra Crown Tantra, Translated by Amoghavajra in the Tang in 1 scroll

Other names

Yoga-vajraśekhara-sūtra-aksharamatrika-vyākhyā-varga; Japanese: Yuga kongōchōgyō shaku jimobon

Summary

Gives a meaning to each letter of the Sanskrit alphabet; a text included within the 金剛頂經類 Vajraśekhara sūtra group of related texts.

Notes

Date 746-774 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 1370')

English translation

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Primary Source

Amoghavajra, 《瑜伽金剛頂經釋字母品》 'Yujia Jingang Ding Jing Shi Zimu Pin,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 18, No. 880, Accessed 2016-09-29, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T18n0880.

References

1. Abé, R 1999, p. 550.
2. Giebel, 2011, pp. 27-36.
3. Lancaster 2004, 'K 1370'

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