Pretamukhāgnijvālayaśarakāradhāraṇīsūtra (Fo Shuo Jiuba Yan Kou E Gui Tuoluoni Jing) 佛說救拔焰口餓鬼陀羅尼經

Translated by Amoghavajra

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第 21 冊　No. 1313 佛說救拔焰口餓鬼陀羅尼經 唐 不空譯 共 1 卷
Volume 21, No. 1313; Pretamukhāgnijvālayaśarakāradhāraṇīsūtra (Fo Shuo Jiuba Yan Kou E Gui Tuoluoni Jing); Translated by Amoghavajra in the Tang in 1 scroll

Other names

The Buddha’s Discourse on the Scripture of the Spell for Saving the Burning-Mouth Hungry Ghost

Summary

Ananda is fortold to become a hungry ghost unless he offers food and drink to hungry ghosts equal to the grains of sand of hundreds of thousands of Ganges rivers. The Buddha teaches Ananda a dharani to fulfill this.

Notes

Sanskrit title and date 720-774 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 1302')

English translations

1. Orzech, Charles D. 1996, “Saving the Burning-Mouth Hungry Ghost,” In: Donald S. Lopez (ed.) Religions of China in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 280–283.
2. Lye, Hun Yeow 2003, Feeding Ghosts: A Study of the Yuqie Yankou Rite PhD Dissertation, University of Virginia, pp. 417–425.

Primary Source

Amoghavajra, 《佛說救拔焰口餓鬼陀羅尼經》 'Pretamukhāgnijvālayaśarakāradhāraṇīsūtra (Fo Shuo Jiuba Yan Kou E Gui Tuoluoni Jing),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 21, No. 1313, Accessed 2016-10-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T21n1313.

References

1. Lancaster 2004, 'K 1302'.

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