Notes

n.1The Denkarma catalog is usually dated to ca. 812 ᴄᴇ.

n.2Butön Rinchen Drup, chos ’byung, folio 172.a/p. 975.

n.3The text is not included in the Kangyur collections of the Thempangma line.

n.4Perhaps a reference to a buddha upon his crown.

n.5According to the Comparative Edition (dpe bsdur ma), here the Yongle, Peking, Narthang, and Lhasa Kangyur versions read dam pa’i chos kyi rin chen mdzod (“O precious treasury of the holy Dharma”).

n.6The possession of a begging bowl may indicate Mañjuśrī’s emanation as a buddha, which is attested in scriptures such as The Array of Virtues of Mañjuśrī’s Buddha Realm (Mañjuśrī­buddha­kṣetra­guṇa­vyūha, Toh 59), The Sūtra for the Benefit of Aṅgulimāla (Aṅgulimālīyasūtra, Toh 213), and The Sūtra of the Great Parinirvāṇa (Toh 119).

n.7In Saṃvarabhadra’s A Sādhana of “Reciting the Names of Mañjuśrī,” where the present scripture is presented in its entirety, this line reads instead shes rab ral gri mnga’ gzhu ’dzin, which might be glossed as, “We pay homage to you, O Mañjuśrī / Who has the sword of wisdom and bears a bow,” an apparent reference to forms of Mañjuśrī bearing these hand implements, such as the figure identified as Tīkṣṇa-Mañjuśrī in Clark 1937, p. 264.