Vimalaprabhā

विमलप्रभा

Vimalaprabhā

དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད།

dri ma med pa'i 'od

Stainless Light

Commentary of Kālacakratantra

D1347

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A crucial commentary to the Kālacakra Tantra purported to have been written by Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka, the fabled Second King of Shambhala also known as Kulika Puṇḍarīka, though in the Tibetan tradition the work is sometimes attributed to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara whom Puṇḍarīka was considered to be an emanation of. In the Tibetan tradition it is counted among the Three Cycles of Bodhisattva Commentaries (Sems 'grel skor gsum), which are a trilogy of canonical commentaries attributed to the transcendent Bodhisattvas Vajrapaṇi, Vajragarbha, and Avalokiteśvara on the Cakrasamvara, Hevajra, and Kālacakra Tantras, respectively.

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Recensions of This Text

Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka (Rigs ldan Pad+ma dkar po), Avalokiteśvara (attributed). Vimalaprabhā. (Stainless Light). Recension information:

Sanskrit

विमलप्रभा-नाम-मूलतन्त्रानुसारिणी-द्वादशसाहस्रिका-लघुकालचक्रतन्त्रराज-टीका. vimalaprabhā-nāma-mūlatantrānusāriṇī-dvādaśasāhasrikā-laghukālacakratantrarāja-ṭīkā. Vimalaprabhāṭīkā of Kalki Śrī Puṇḍarīka on Śrī Laghukālacakratantrarāja by Śrī Mañjuśriyaśa. Edited by Samdhong Rinpoche; Vrajavallabh Dwivedi; S.S. Bahulkar. Sarnath: Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies. 3 vols., 1986; reprint (1994). Sanskrit manuscripts from Tibet Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra-tantra, Pañcarakṣā. Edited by Chandra, Lokesh. Sata-pitaka series. Indo-Asian literatures, vol. 629 = Śatapiṭakam. New Delhi : International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, 2010..

Tibetan

བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད། རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ། (bsdus pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po dus kyi 'khor lo'i 'grel bshad, rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi rjes su 'jug pa stong phrag bcu gnyis pa dri ma med pa'i 'od ces bya ba). BCRD Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=7daecacd7ce54e32897ae0d2e3469de8&enc=sanskrit_romanized_title_4_search&coll=tengyur Derge 1347, rgyud, tha 107b1-277a7; da 1b1-297a7 (vol. 11), translated by Tshul khrims dar, Zhang ston Mdo sde dpal, Shong ston Rdo rje rgyal mtshan, and Blo gros rgyal mtshan. Also appears in Q 2064, rgyud 'grel, ka 1a1-195b6; kha 1a1-297a6 (vol. 46, p.121); N 858, rgyud 'grel, ka 1b1-190b7; kha 1b1-304a3 (vol. 2).

Text Metadata

Text exists in	~ Sanskrit ~ Tibetan
Canonical Genre	~ Kangyur · Tantra · rgyud
Literary Genre	~ Commentaries - 'grel pa
Commentary of	~ Dus kyi 'khor lo

Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

In Sanskrit, "Stainless Light," the most important commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra',' attributed to Puṇḍarīka.

In Sanskrit, "Stainless Light," the most important commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra',' attributed to Puṇḍarīka.

In Sanskrit, "Stainless Light," the most important commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra',' attributed to Puṇḍarīka.

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

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