Notes

n.1For details, see The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra (Ākāśa­garbha­sūtra, Toh 260), i.­1.

n.2Butön Rinchen Drup, folio 174.b/979: shAkya thub pa’i snying po.

n.3Most scholars consider the Denkarma to have been completed sometime in the first half of the ninth century (for a discussion of the different possible dates, see Herrmann-Pfandt 2008, xvii–xxii). Bu ston completed his History of Buddhism sometime before the year 1326 (for a detailed discussion, see van der Kuijp 2016, pp. 227–35).

n.4Two sets of folio references have been included in this translation due to a discrepancy in volume 88 (rgyud, na) of the Degé Kangyur between the 1737 par phud printings and the late (post par phud) printings. In the latter case, an extra work, Bodhi­maṇḍasyālaṃkāra­lakṣa­dhāraṇī (Toh 508, byang chub snying po’i rgyan ’bum gyi gzungs), was added as the second text in the volume, thereby displacing the pagination of all the following texts in the same volume by 17 folios. Since the eKangyur follows the later printing, both references have been provided, with the highlighted one linking to the eKangyur viewer.

n.5Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 861 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 861, n.­5, for details.

n.6F here adds thugs rje chen po dang ldan pa “who is endowed with great compassion.”

n.7The phrase vairocana­raśmi sañcodite āgaccha| āryākāśa­garbha “Come, ordered by Vairocana’s light rays! Noble Ākāśagarbha (“Essence of the Sky”)” in the dhāraṇī rather seems to suggest that this is the dhāraṇī of the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha.

n.8F here omits yams kyi nad “epidemics.”

n.9A similar passage can be found in The Nectar of Speech (Amṛtavyāharaṇa, Toh 197), 1.­12.