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'''Ratnashikhin''' (Skt. ''Ratnaśikhin''; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen gtsug tor can'') — a [[buddha]] of the past mentioned in some [[sutra]]s, such as ''[[The Chapter on Medicines]]'', and [[tantra]]s such as ''The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri''. In this | '''Ratnashikhin''' (Skt. ''Ratnaśikhin''; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen gtsug tor can'') — a [[buddha]] of the past mentioned in some [[sutra]]s, such as ''[[The Chapter on Medicines]]'', and [[Kriya tantra]]s such as ''The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri''. In this latter context, he presented as the first of eight blessed buddhas. | ||
Buddha Ratnashikhin is included in | Previously, when this buddha was practising [[bodhisattva]] conduct, he made this commitment: “May anyone in the world realms in the ten directions who hears my name at the time of their death, after passing away, be reborn as a deva in the [[Heaven of the Thirty-Three]].”<ref>https://read.84000.co/translation/toh555.html#UT22084-089-012-2781</ref> | ||
==Notes== | |||
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==Further Reading== | |||
*[https://www.academia.edu/39740444/_2019b_Buddhas_of_the_Past_South_Asia Tournier, Vincent, ''Buddhas of the Past: South Asia'', in: Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives. Ed. J. Silk, R. Bowring, V. Eltschinger, and M. Radich. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019), 95–108.] | |||
*Tudkeao, Chanwit, ''Once Upon in Ratnaśikhin Buddha’s Lifetime: Legends of Ratnaśikhin Buddha in India and Beyond,'' in: P. Skilling & J. McDaniel, eds., Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond, vol. I, (Bangkok: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2012), 49–57. | |||
==Internal Links== | |||
*Buddha Ratnashikhin is included in Trulshik Rinpoche's ''[[Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas]]''. | |||
==External Links== | |||
*[https://fpmt.org/edu-news/advice/lama-zopa-rinpoche-recites-the-rinchhen-tsugtor-verse-for-the-dead-and-dying/ Lama Zopa Rinpoche discussing the benefits of reciting the holy name of Buddha Rinchen Tsugtor Chen] | |||
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | [[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:08, 4 December 2023
Ratnashikhin (Skt. Ratnaśikhin; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན།, Rinchen Tsuktor Chen, Wyl. rin chen gtsug tor can) — a buddha of the past mentioned in some sutras, such as The Chapter on Medicines, and Kriya tantras such as The Root Manual for the Rites of Manjushri. In this latter context, he presented as the first of eight blessed buddhas.
Previously, when this buddha was practising bodhisattva conduct, he made this commitment: “May anyone in the world realms in the ten directions who hears my name at the time of their death, after passing away, be reborn as a deva in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three.”[1]
Notes
Further Reading
- Tournier, Vincent, Buddhas of the Past: South Asia, in: Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume II: Lives. Ed. J. Silk, R. Bowring, V. Eltschinger, and M. Radich. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2019), 95–108.
- Tudkeao, Chanwit, Once Upon in Ratnaśikhin Buddha’s Lifetime: Legends of Ratnaśikhin Buddha in India and Beyond, in: P. Skilling & J. McDaniel, eds., Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond, vol. I, (Bangkok: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2012), 49–57.
Internal Links
- Buddha Ratnashikhin is included in Trulshik Rinpoche's Homage to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.