Lalitavistarasūtra

आर्यललितविस्तरनाममहायानसूत्र

āryalalitavistaranāmamahāyānasūtra

འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།

'phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo

方廣大莊嚴經

fāng guǎng dà zhuāng yán jīng

The Play in Full

D95 · T187

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The Play in Full tells the story of how the Buddha manifested in this world and attained awakening, as perceived from the perspective of the Great Vehicle. The sūtra, which is structured in twenty-seven chapters, first presents the events surrounding the Buddha’s birth, childhood, and adolescence in the royal palace of his father, king of the Śākya nation. It then recounts his escape from the palace and the years of hardship he faced in his quest for spiritual awakening. Finally the sūtra reveals his complete victory over the demon Māra, his attainment of awakening under the Bodhi tree, his first turning of the wheel of Dharma, and the formation of the very early saṅgha. (Source: 84000)

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Poppe, Nicholas. The Twelve Deeds of Buddha: A Mongolian Version of the Lalitavistara; Mongolian Text, Notes, and English Translation. Studies on Asia 16. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967.
Doctor, Andreas, and the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, trans. The Play in Full: Lalitavistara. v 4.47.12. 84000.co, 2021. https://read.84000.co/translation/toh95.html.
Foucaux, Philippe Edouard, trans. Le Lalita Vistara: Development des jeux; contenant l'histoire du Boudhha Çakya-Mouni depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa prédication. Part 1. Traduction Francaise. Annales du Musée Guimet 6. Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1884. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101074687607&view=1up&seq=13&skin=2021.
Foucaux, Philippe Edouard, trans. Le Lalita Vistara: Development des jeux; contenant l'histoire du Boudhha Çakya-Mouni depuis sa naissance jusqu'à sa prédication. Part 2. Notes, Variantes et Index. Annales du Musée Guimet 19. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1892. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101074687615&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021.
Lefmann, Salomon, trans. Lalita Vistara: Erzälung von dem leben und der lehre des Çâkya Simha. Berlin: F. Dümmler, 1874. https://archive.org/details/lalitavistaraer00lefmgoog/page/n8/mode/2up.
Mitra, R. L., trans. The Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śákya Siñha. Translated from the original Sanskrit. Bibliotheca Indica 90. Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1881. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwjsrw&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021.
Bays, Gwendolyn, trans. The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion. 2 vols. Tibetan Translation Series. Emeryville, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1983. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Gwendolyn%20Bays.
Foucaux, Philippe Édouard, trans. "Rgya tch'er rol pa (Lalitavistara), ou développement de jeux." In Vol. 2 of Les livres sacrés de toutes les religions, sauf la bible, edited by Jean-Pierre Guillaume Pauthier and Pierre Gustave Brunet, 574–714. Paris: J. P. Migne, 1858. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082032312&view=1up&seq=578&skin=2021.

Recensions of This Text

Lalitavistarasūtra (The Sūtra called "The Play in Full"). Recension information:
Sanskrit	ललितविस्तरसूत्र, Lalitavistarasūtra. The Lalita Vistara, or Memoirs of the Early Life of Śākya Siñha. Edited by Rajendralal Mitra. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, lxiv, 575 p. (Bibllndica 164), 1877. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924021571892&view=1up&seq=9&skin=2021. Lalita-Vistara. Edited by P. L. Vaidya. Darbhanga, Bihar: The Mithila Institute, 1958. https://archive.org/details/lalitavistaravaidyap.l.mithilainstitutedarbhanga_725_O/page/n3/mode/2up. See this text in the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/book/45. Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha; Erster Teil: Text. Edited by Salomon Lefmann. Halle, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhaus, 1902. Link to Source at University of Hamburg. Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha. Zweiter Tiel: Varianten, Metren und Wörterverzeichnis. Edited by Salomon Lefmann. Halle, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhaus, 1908. Link to Text at Hathitrust.
Tibetan	འཕགས་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རོལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།, ('phags pa rgya cher rol pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo). rKTs (Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies) Link: https://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/rktsneu/verif/verif2.php?id=95. Derge 95, mdo sde, vol. 46, kha 1b1-216b7, translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Munivarman, and Ye shes sde.
Chinese	佛説普曜經 (Fú shuō pǔ yào jīng), T186, 03: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0186.html, translated by Dharmarakṣa. 方廣大莊嚴經 (fāng guǎng dà zhuāng yán jīng), T187, 03: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0187.html, translated by Divākara. .

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Text exists in	~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan ~ Chinese
Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta
Literary Genre	~ Sūtras - mdo

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