The Vajracchedikā-sūtra with gāthās compiled by Master Fu - Evertype
The Vajracchedikā-sūtra with gāthās compiled by Master Fu - Evertype
The Vajracchedikā-sūtra with gāthās compiled by Master Fu - Evertype
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admit our request and settle it again (lit. second time). <strong>The</strong> introductory explanation of the reason of<br />
coming into existence of the <strong>gāthās</strong> in verse of 54 sections <strong>with</strong>in the doctrine-jewel Kimkoke is<br />
completed.<br />
Take refuge in the Buddha! Take refuge in the Dharma! Take refuge in the Sangha! (This is) the<br />
explanation of the Kimkoke-Sūtra in 49 <strong>gāthās</strong>, which is newly composed (in verse) and deigned to<br />
lecture to the Chinese emperor named Liang Wudi <strong>by</strong> <strong>Master</strong> <strong>Fu</strong>, the respectful, well-behaved<br />
Maitreya Boddhisattva, who is in the Buddha appearing in the form of a human being (Skt.<br />
nirmāṇakāya). 76 Again, […] told <strong>by</strong> another wise man whose first and last name is not known […]<br />
U 4886 (T II 908)<br />
With fully concentrated pure mind I endeavour to explain the collection of this Kimkoke-Sūtra. Those<br />
wanderers who intend to read and recite this doctrine read and recite one volume of this <strong>sūtra</strong> first<br />
thinking and imagining Eight Great Vajrapāṇis and Four Great Bodhisattvas 77 in this way men and<br />
good (women) would be equal to have read the Kimkoke <strong>sūtra</strong>-jewel 300 thousand times. <strong>Fu</strong>rthermore,<br />
they will be […] good spirits (Hend) and gods […]<br />
Mainz 731 III recto<br />
Like this, if they recite [this Kim]koke doctrine <strong>with</strong> mouth, the [whatever] thoughts and wishes they<br />
have then [their] that [thoughts and wishes] will not be neglected (lit. will not sleep). Moreover, one<br />
has to recite thus:<br />
[oṁ] shuri shu shuri svāha. Namaḥ samanta-[buddhānāṁ oṁ dhuru dhvi] svāha. Oṁ gagana sam[bhara vajra<br />
hūṁ.]<br />
76 As a Buddhist term bälgürtmä ät’öz translates Chin. 化 身 huashen, which usually refers to the Buddha<br />
appearing in the form of an animal to preach to animals, as a being in hell to save those people suffering in hell<br />
etc. (JEBD 286a). For notes to bälgürtmä, including the bälgürtmä ät’öz see OTWF 318.<br />
77 In general refers to Avalokitêśvara, Maitreya, Samantabhadra, and Mañjuśrī, also, the four chief bodhisattvas<br />
in the Garbhadhātu. Here refers to the the four bodhisattvas in the Diamond group, namely dṛḍhabhārya,<br />
vajrapāśa, vajrarāga and vajrabhāṣa.
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