༄༅། །དན་མག་ཏ་ལ་ལ་གངས། The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch

Ratnolkādhāraṇī འཕགས་པ་དན་མག་ཏ་ལ་ལ་གངས་ས་་བ་ག་པ་ན་་མ། ’phags pa dkon mchog ta la la’i gzungs zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo

The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra “The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch”

Āryaratnolkānāmadhāraṇīmahāyānasūtra Toh 847 Degé Kangyur, vol. 100 (gzungs, e), folios 3.b–54.b.

Translated by David Jackson under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

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This work is provided under the protection of a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non- commercial - No-derivatives) 3.0 copyright. It may be copied or printed for fair use, but only with full attribution, and not for commercial advantage or personal compensation. For full details, see the Creative Commons license. This print version was generated at 11.13am on Thursday, 5th August 2021 from the online version of the text available on that date. If some time has elapsed since then, this version may have been superseded, as most of 84000’s published translations undergo significant updates from time to time. For the latest online version, with bilingual display, interactive glossary entries and notes, and a variety of further download options, please see https://read.84000.co/translation/toh847.html. co. TABLE OF CONTENTS ti. Title im. Imprint co. Contents s. Summary ac. Acknowledgements i. Introduction · Overview · Narrative and Doctrinal Content · The Sūtra, the Avataṃsaka, and the Chinese Translation · Why Is the Sūtra Also a Dhāraṇī? · The Title and Its Variants · The Sūtra in Śāntideva’s Śikṣāsamuccaya and Other Treatises · The Sūtra’s Impact on Tibetan Works · The Translation tr. The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch 1. Chapter 1 2. Chapter 2 c. Colophon n. Notes b. Bibliography · Tibetan and Texts · Other Sources g. Glossary s. SUMMARY s. 1 The Dhāraṇī of the Jewel Torch starts with a profound conversation between the Buddha and the and Mañjuśrī on the nature of the dharmadhātu, , and emptiness. The mati then enters the meditative absorption called the infinite application of the bodhisattva’s jewel torch and, at the behest of the millions of buddhas who have blessed him, emerges from it to teach how bodhisattvas arise from the presence of a tathāgata and progress to the state of omniscience. Following Dharma mati’s detailed exposition of the “ten categories” or progressive stages of a bodhisattva, the Buddha briefly teaches the of the dhāraṇī and then, for most of the remainder of the text, encourages bodhisattvas in a long versified passage in which he recounts teachings by a bodhisattva called Bhadraśrī on the qualities of bodhisattvas and buddhas. Some verses from this passage on the virtues of faith have been widely quoted in both India and Tibet. ac. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ac. 1 Translated by David Jackson and edited by the 84000 editorial team. The introduction, also by the 84000 editorial team, expands on an original version by David Jackson. The translation was completed under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. ac. 2 The generous sponsorship of Make and Wang Xiao Juan (⾺珂和王曉娟), which helped make the work