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'''''Fortunate Aeon Sutra''''' (Skt. ''Bhadrakalpikasūtra''; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་བཟང་པོའི་མདོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bskal pa bzang po’i mdo)'' — a [[Mahayana]] [[sutra]] taught by [[Buddha Shakyamuni]] in [[Vaishali]] at the request of Bodhisattva Pramuditarāja, which describes in detail the [[1002 buddhas of this Fortunate Aeon]]. It is found in the first volume of the sutra section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]]. The original Sanskrit text is now lost.

==Early Translations==
*First translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Vidyākarasiṁha and Bandé Palyang.
*Tibetan translation revised in the 9th century by [[Kawa Paltsek]]
*Chinese translation by Dharmarakṣa.

==English Translations==
*''The Fortunate Aeon: How the Thousand Buddhas Became Enlightened'' (Tibetan Translation Series), 4 volume set (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1986).

==External Links==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l4s4izh0e0gp0ic/AABv9DdMkhdFBJFFTmIzoF97a/༡༠%20%20མདོ་མང་།/ཀ།?dl=0&preview=KL00094(eTB).txt ''Sutra of the Fortunate Eon''—Tibetan text and Wylie transliteration at ACIP]

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