Nīlakaṇṭhakasūtra (Ian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Lao Tuoluoni Shen Jing) 千手千眼觀世音菩薩姥陀羅尼身經

Translated by Bodhiruci

Colophon

第 20 冊　No. 1058 千手千眼觀世音菩薩姥陀羅尼身經 唐 菩提流志譯 共 1 卷
Volume 20, No. 1058; Nīlakaṇṭhakasūtra (Ian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Lao Tuoluoni Shen Jing); Translated by Bodhiruci in the Tang in 1 scroll

Other names

千手觀音姥陀羅尼身經 Sutra of the Divine Dharani of the Thousand Arm Avalokitesvara; 千手經 Thousand Hand Sutra

Summary

The text explains the merits of the Dharani, mudras, other ritual procedures, and miracles performed through the use of the thousand hands and thousand eyes.

Notes

Sanskrit title and date 709 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 293')

English Translation

Primary Source Bodhiruci, 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩姥陀羅尼身經》 'Nīlakaṇṭhakasūtra (Ian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Lao Tuoluoni Shen Jing),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 20, No. 1058, Accessed 2016-10-07, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T20n1058.

References

  1. FGDB, s.v. 千手經.
  2. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
  3. Lancaster 2004, 'K 293'.

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