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The '''Sutra of the Great Drum''' (Skt. ''mahabheriharaka-sutra'', Tib. འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་, ''pakpa ngawo ché chenpö le'u shyé jawa tekpa chenpö do'', [[Wyl.]] ''phags pa rnga bo che chen po'i le'u zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'') prophesied the future birth of [[Nagarjuna]], and is also one of [[ten sutras that teach the sugatagarbha]].
The '''''Sutra of the Great Drum''''' (Skt. ''Mahābherīhārakasūtra''; Tib. འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་, ''pakpa ngawo ché chenpö le'u shyé jawa tekpa chenpö do'', [[Wyl.]] ''phags pa rnga bo che chen po'i le'u zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'') — one of [[ten sutras that teach the sugatagarbha]].
 
In this text buddha nature is possessed by all sentient beings and is described as luminous and pure. It is also attributed characteristics, such as being permanent, eternal, everlasting, peaceful, and a self, that echo the four perfect qualities (''guṇapāramitās'') often ascribed to the [[dharmakaya]] when it is treated as a synonym for buddha nature. It also connects [[tathagatagarbha]] to the notion of a single vehicle and asserts the definitive nature of the buddha nature teachings in general and within this [[sutra]] in particular.<ref>Tsadra Foundation page (see link below)</ref>
 
In this text, the future birth of [[Nagarjuna]], is prophesied.
 
==Text==
The text is only extant in two versions:
*In Chinese: the ''Da fagu jing'' (大法鼓經; T. 270), translated by Guṇabhadra; and
*In Tibetan: in the [[Kangyur]], [[General Sutra]] section, [[Derge Kangyur]], [[Toh]] 222, translated by Vidyākaraprabha, ''Dpal gyi lhun po'', and ''Dpal brtsegs'' (9th cent. ce).
**{{TBRC|O1GS12980%7CO1GS1298001JW13728$W22084|Derge Kangyur, Volume 63, pp.168-252.}}
 
==Modern Translations==
There exists an anonymous English translation from the Chinese version, available [https://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra19.html here]


==Quotations==
==Quotations==
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==Tibetan Texts==
==Notes==
*{{TBRC|O1GS12980%7CO1GS1298001JW13728$W22084|Derge Kangyur, Volume 63, pp.168-252.}}
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==Further Reading==
*Radich, Michael. "Tathāgatagarbha Scriptures." In ''Vol. 1, Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism: Literature and Languages'', edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, and Vincent Eltschinger, 267-68. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
 
==External Links==
*Resource page on [https://buddhanature.tsadra.org/index.php/Texts/Mah%C4%81bher%C4%ABs%C5%ABtra Tsadra Foundation's Buddha Nature Website]


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Latest revision as of 15:56, 18 December 2023

The Sutra of the Great Drum (Skt. Mahābherīhārakasūtra; Tib. འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་, pakpa ngawo ché chenpö le'u shyé jawa tekpa chenpö do, Wyl. phags pa rnga bo che chen po'i le'u zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo) — one of ten sutras that teach the sugatagarbha.

In this text buddha nature is possessed by all sentient beings and is described as luminous and pure. It is also attributed characteristics, such as being permanent, eternal, everlasting, peaceful, and a self, that echo the four perfect qualities (guṇapāramitās) often ascribed to the dharmakaya when it is treated as a synonym for buddha nature. It also connects tathagatagarbha to the notion of a single vehicle and asserts the definitive nature of the buddha nature teachings in general and within this sutra in particular.[1]

In this text, the future birth of Nagarjuna, is prophesied.

Text

The text is only extant in two versions:

Modern Translations

There exists an anonymous English translation from the Chinese version, available here

Quotations

མྱ་ངན་མ་བྱེད་ཀུན་དགའ་བོ། །

སྨྲེ་སྔགས་མ་འདོན་ཀུན་དགའ་བོ། །
ང་ཉིད་ཕྱི་མའི་དུས་ཀྱི་ཚེ། །
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ཉིད་སྤྲུལ་ནས། །

ཁྱེད་ལ་སོགས་པའི་དོན་བྱེད་འགྱུར། །

Don’t feel sad Ananda,
Don’t lament Ananda,
In future times I will
Take the form of spiritual teachers,
To help you and others.

Buddha Shakyamuni, Sutra of the Great Drum

Notes

  1. Tsadra Foundation page (see link below)

Further Reading

  • Radich, Michael. "Tathāgatagarbha Scriptures." In Vol. 1, Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism: Literature and Languages, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Oskar von Hinüber, and Vincent Eltschinger, 267-68. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

External Links