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bu nay relevance: This text is included among the class of tathāgatagarbha sūtras and features several important concepts related to buddha-nature, such as the singe vehicle and a universal element possessed by sentient beings that is equated with the ultimately pure nature of the mind. It also includes some proto-Zhentong explanations of emptiness as an absence of the extraneous, rather than an inherent quality of nothing-ness.
bu nay title: Aṅgulimālīyasūtra
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canonical genre revised: Kangyur · Sūtra · mdo sde · Sūtranta
canonrefnum: 213
cbeta link: https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T0118,https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T0119,https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/en/T0120_001
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description: The Mahāyāna version of this sūtra, like the earlier Pali sutta of the same name, recounts a sorted tale of jealousy and revenge that spirals out of control, in which a once promising disciple is set on the path to become a vicious murderer in search of a thousand victims in order to create a garland strung with their severed fingers. That is, of course, until he encounters the final victim needed to complete his task, the Buddha. (You can read the story [https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Books/The_Jewel_Ornament_of_Liberation_(Konchog_Gyaltsen)/The_Story_of_Angulimala here]). The Mahāyāna version is routinely included among the lists of so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras, the reason likely being the extensive discussion the protagonist has with Mañjuśrī on the proper view of emptiness. The position presented in the text has been taken by some to be an early precursor to the view of other-emptiness.
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fulltitle: 'phags pa sor mo'i phreng ba la phan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo
fulltitlechn: 央掘魔羅經
fulltitledev: अङ्गुलिमालीयसूत्र
fulltitlekor: 앙굴마라경
fulltitlekorphon: ang gul ma ra gyeong
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fulltitleskt: Aṅgulimālīyasūtra
fulltitletib: འཕགས་པ་སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལ་ཕན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།
fulltitletrans: The Sūtra for the Benefit of Aṅgulimāla (84000)
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pagename: RKTSK 213
pages scholarship: When the Clouds Part
people: Śākyaprabha
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popup summary: One of the tathāgatagarbha sūtras.
sat link: http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0118.html,http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0119.html,http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0120.html
scholarlynotes: The ''Aṅgulimālīyasūtra'' (Scripture on Aṅgulimālīya) is extant in two versions: # the ''Yangjuemoluo jing'' (央掘魔羅經; T. 120), translated by Guṇabhadra; and # the ''Sor mo’i phreng ba la phan pa'' (D 213/Q 879), translated by Śākyaprabha, Dharmatāśīla, and Tong Ācārya (9th cent.). The main studies on this text are by Takasaki Jikidō (1974, 191–233), Ogawa Ichijō (1999; 2001, 7–15), Kanō Kazuo (2006), Suzuki Takayasu (1999a; 1999b; 2000), and L. Schmithausen (2003). Suzuki Takayasu notes that the ''Aṅgulimālīyasūtra'', like the ''*Mahābherīhārakasūtra'', refers to its preachers as ''*hitopadeṣṭṛ'' (teachers for the benefit [of others]). Like the ''Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra'', the ''Aṅgulimālīyasūtra'' reworks a scenario from mainstream canonical scripture – this time, the conversion of the bandit and murderer Aṅgulimāl(īy)a (see Theragāthā vv. 866–891; Majjhimanikāya, 86). The ''Aṅgulimālīyasūtra'' thus betrays a concern with the power of the dharma to save even hopeless sinners, also seen in the ''Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra'' (the portions found in the Dharmakṣema translation) on the salvation of Ajātaśatru (famed for killing his father, Bimbisāra, in order to usurp his throne), the ''Mahāmeghasūtra’s'' docetic reinterpretation of Devadatta, and ''icchantika'' doctrine. Aṅgulimālīya is originally a Brahman youth named *Sarvalokapriyadarśana, connecting him to the central protagonist of the ''Mahāparinirvāṇamahāsūtra'' group. He is accused by the wife of his teacher of sexually molesting her, and the teacher convinces Aṅgulimālīya to expiate his guilt by killing a thousand people and making a trophy garland of their severed fingers (the source of his grisly soubriquet – Aṅgulimālīya [“Finger Garland”]). Having killed 999 people, Aṅgulimālīya prepares to kill his mother. The Buddha intervenes, and Aṅgulimālīya wants to kill him, too. Instead, the Buddha manages to convert him. Various deities and advanced disciples express their admiration at the conversion, and Aṅgulimāl…
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tibetan description: མདོ་འདི་ནི་ གནས་བརྟན་པའི་སྡེ་སྣོད་དུ་བཞུགས་པའི་སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་མདོ་དང་མཚན་མཚུངས་ཀྱང་། འདིར་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བརྗོད་དོན་བསྟན་ཅིང་བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་བསྟན་པའི་མདོའི་གྲལ་དུ་བཞག་པ་དང་། སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བས་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་བཀའ་ཁུར་ཏེ་མི་དགུ་རྒྱ་གོ་དགུ་བསད་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱས་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ལ་འཇུག་པ་དང་། འཇམ་དཔལ་དང་སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་བར་དུ་དོན་དམ་པའི་གནས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་དྲི་ལན་བྱས་པ་དང་། བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་ལ་དྲི་མས་སྟོང་པའི་རྣམ་བཞག་སོགས་བཀོད་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན།
tibgenre: Sūtras - mdo
tile description: One of the tathāgatagarbha sūtras, this is the the Mahāyāna version of an earlier Pali sutta of the same name.
titles: ārya-aṅgulimālīya-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra;'phags pa sor mo'i phreng ba la phan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;央掘魔羅經;yang jue mo luo jing;앙굴마라경;ang gul ma ra gyeong;अङ्गुलिमालीयसूत्र;Aṅgulimālīyasūtra;འཕགས་པ་སོར་མོའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལ་ཕན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།;Texts/Aṅgulimālīyasūtra
translator: Dharmarakṣa,Guṇabhadra,Dharmatāśīla,Śākyaprabha,Tong Ācārya,Faju
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