The Dharani Sutra: The Sutra of the Vast, Great, Perfect, Full, Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani of the Thousand-Handed, Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva Who Regards the World’s Sounds (Qian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Guangda Yuanman Wu Ai Da Bei Xin Tuoluoni Jing) 千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經

Translated by Bhagavat-dharma

Colophon

第 20 冊　No. 1060 千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經 唐 伽梵達摩譯 共 1 卷
Volume 20, No. 1060 The Dharani Sutra: The Sutra of the Vast, Great, Perfect, Full, Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani of the Thousand-Handed, Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva Who Regards the World’s Sounds (Qian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Guangda Yuanman Wu Ai Da Bei Xin Tuoluoni Jing); Translated by Bhagavat-dharma in the Tang in 1 scroll

Other names

大悲心陀羅尼經 Great Compassion Dharani Sutra; Mahākāruṇikacitta-dhāraṇī; 千手經 Thousand Hand Sutra; Japanese: Senju sengen kanzeon bosatsu kōdai enman muge daijihishin daranikyō

Summary

The popular version of the 大悲咒 Great Compassion Dharani derives from this text. The text also includes a collection of associated ritual practices.

Notes

Sanskrit title Nīlakaṇṭhakasūtra and date 650-661 from Lancaster ( 2004, 'K 294')

English translations

  1. Buddhist Text Translation Society 1976, The Dharani Sutra: The Sutra of the Vast, Great, Perfect, Full, Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani of the Thousand-Handed, Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva Who Regards the World’s Sounds, San Francisco: Buddhist Text Translation Society.
  2. Giddings, William J 2017, "The Sūtra on the Dhāraṇī of the Vast, Complete and Unobstructed Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva with a Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes," In: P. Salguero (ed.), Buddhism and Medicine - An Anthology of Premodern Sources, New York: Columbia University Press, pp.252-285.

Primary Source

Bhagavat-dharma, 《千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經》 'Nīlakaṇṭhakasūtra (Qian Shou Qian Yan Guanshiyin Pusa Guangda Yuanman Wu Ai Da Bei Xin Tuoluoni 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. 1060, Accessed 2016-10-07, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T20n1060.

References

  1. Abé, R 1999, p. 545.
  2. FGDB, s.v. 大悲心陀羅尼經.
  3. Giebel 2011, pp. 27-36.
  4. Lancaster 2004, 'K 294'.
  5. Orzech 2011b, pp. 332-333.

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