Five acts said to lead to immediate and unavoidable birth in the hell realms: killing one’s father, killing one’s mother, killing an arhat, sowing discord within the saṅgha, and drawing the blood of a tathāgata with ill intent.
1847-1914. A master of the Sakya tradition.
An eleventh-century Tibetan master and translator who is specifically known for his Cakrasaṃvara lineage, which he received from teachers in the Kathmandu Valley.
Mañjuśrī is one of the “eight close sons of the Buddha” and a bodhisattva who embodies wisdom. He is a major figure in the Mahāyāna sūtras, appearing often as an interlocutor of the Buddha. In his most well-known iconographic form, he is portrayed bearing the sword of wisdom in his right hand and a volume of the Prajñāpāramitāsūtra in his left. To his name, Mañjuśrī, meaning “Gentle and Glorious One,” is often added the epithet Kumārabhūta, “having a youthful form.” He is also called Mañjughoṣa, Mañjusvara, and Pañcaśikha.
A Tibetan translator who lived in the eleventh to twelfth century. He translated the collection of sādhanas referred to as “The ‘Hundred’ Sādhanas translated by Patshab” (pa tshab kyis bsgyur ba’i sgrub thabs rgya rtsa), a collection of one hundred and sixty-three sādhanas. He mostly translated these in the presence of the paṇḍita Abhayākaragupta, who was a Bengali scholar and the abbot of Vikramaśīla. Patshab’s collection is included in the Tantra section of the Degé Tengyur.
Literally, “The Lion’s Roar.” The name of a form of Avalokiteśvara.
An Indian master active in the eleventh century. This may be a shortened name of Vāgīśvarakīrti, a renowned master of the Cakrasaṃvara who was a gate keeper at Vikramaśīla before spending the latter part of his life in the Kathmandu Valley.
seng ge sgra’i gzungs (Siṃhanādadhāraṇī). Toh 3156, Degé Tengyur vol. 75 (rgyud ’grel, phu), folio 178.a.
seng ge sgra’i gzungs (Siṃhanādadhāraṇī). Toh 704, Degé Kangyur vol. 93 (rgyud, rtsa), folios 171.a–171.b.
seng ge sgras dam bcas pa’i gzungs. Toh 912, Degé Kangyur vol. 101 (gzungs ’dus, e), folios 242.a–242.b.
seng ge sgra’i gzungs. bka’ ’gyur (dpe bsdur ma) [Comparative Edition of the Kangyur], krung go’i bod rig pa zhib ’jug ste gnas kyi bka’ bstan dpe sdur khang (The Tibetan Tripitaka Collation Bureau of the China Tibetology Research Center). 108 volumes. Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang (China Tibetology Publishing House), 2006–9, vol. 93, pp. 501–02.
Seng ge sgras dam bcas pa’i gzungs. bka’ ’gyur (dpe bsdur ma) [Comparative Edition of the Kangyur], krung go’i bod rig pa zhib ’jug ste gnas kyi bka’ bstan dpe sdur khang (The Tibetan Tripitaka Collation Bureau of the China Tibetology Research Center). 108 volumes. Beijing: krung go’i bod rig pa dpe skrun khang (China Tibetology Publishing House), 2006–9, vol. 97, pp. 723–24.
seng ge sgra’i gzungs. Stok Palace Kangyur vol. 107 (rgyud, ma), folios 45.b–46.a.
Siṃhanādadhāraṇī. In Sādhanamālā, vol. 1, edited by Benoytosh Bhattacharyya, 52. Baroda: Central Library, 1925.
Mipham Gyatso (mi pham rgya mtsho). seng ge sgra’i gzungs kyi lo rgyus. In Mipham Gyatso’s Collected Works (gsung ’bum/ mi pham rgya mtsho), Chengdu: gangs can rig gzhung dpe rnying myur skyobs lhan tshogs, 2007, vol. 25 (ra), folios 51.a–51.b.
84000. The Dhāraṇī of Avalokiteśvara Siṃhanāda (Āvalokiteśvarasiṃhanādadhāraṇī, spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug seng ge sgra’i gzungs, Toh 703). Translated by Catherine Dalton. Online publication, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2024.
84000. The Dhāraṇī of Siṃhanāda (seng ge sgra’i gzungs, Toh 704). Translated by Catherine Dalton. Online publication, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2024.
84000. The Dhāraṇī of Siṃhanāda’s Promise (seng ge sgras dam bcas pa’i gzungs, Toh 912). Translated by Catherine Dalton. Online publication, 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha, 2024.
Hidas, Gergely. Powers of Protection: The Buddhist Tradition of Spells in the Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha Collections. Boston: de Gruyter, 2021.
Holt, John C. Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Losty, J. P. “The Mahābodhi Temple Before its Restoration.” In Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne: Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, edited by Sam van Schaik, Daniela De Simone, Gergeley Hidas, and Michael Willis, 8–28. London: The British Museum, 2021.