Notes

n.1Butön Rinchen Drup, folio 175.a/ 980.

n.2Most 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.3See the introduction to Bouquet of Flowers (Kusumasañcaya, Toh 266), i.­1–i.­9, for a discussion of this. Other sūtras that similarly teach the efficacy of hearing, remembering, and reciting the names of various buddhas include The Questions of Guṇaratnasaṅkusumita (Guṇa­ratna­saṅkusumita­pari­pṛcchā, Toh 78), The Questions of Ratnajālin (Ratna­jāli­pari­pṛcchā, Toh 163), The Eight Buddhas (Aṣṭabuddhaka, Toh 271), and The Twelve Buddhas (Dvādaśa­buddhaka, Toh 273).

n.4See, e.g., Bouquet of Flowers (me tog gi tshogs, Toh 266), 1.­45, 1.­111 and Calling Witness with a Hundred Prostrations (dpang skong phyag brgya pa, Toh 267), 1.­11.

n.5Two 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.6Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 868 version of this text within vol. 100 or 101 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 868, n.­6, for details.