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The [[sūtra]] known as '''The Prophecy of Śrī Mahādevī''' (Skt. ''Śrī­mahā­devī­vyākaraṇa'', Tib. ལྷ་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་, ''lhamo chenmo pal lungten pa'', [[Wyl.]] ''lha mo chen mo dpal lung bstan pa'') is found in the General Sūtra (''[[mdo sde]]'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] (Toh. 193/739).
The [[sutra]] known as '''''The Prophecy of Śrī Mahādevī''''' (Skt. ''Śrī­mahā­devī­vyākaraṇa''; Tib. ལྷ་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་, ''lhamo chenmo pal lungten pa'', [[Wyl.]] ''lha mo chen mo dpal lung bstan pa'') is found in the ''General Sutra'' (Wyl. ''[[mdo sde]]'') section of the Tibetan [[Kangyur]] (Toh. 193/739).


This [[sūtra]] recounts events that took place in the realm of [[Sukhāvatī]], and begins with [[Buddha]] recounting to the [[bodhisattva]] [[Avalokiteśvara]] recounting the accomplishments of [[Śrī Mahādevī]], along with a prophecy in which her future enlightenment was foretold by all the buddhas she venerated, and her many names and benefits of reciting them.
This sutra recounts events that took place in the realm of [[Sukhavati]], and begins with [[Buddha]] recounting to the [[bodhisattva]] [[Avalokiteshvara]] recounting the accomplishments of [[Śrī Mahādevī]], along with a prophecy in which her future enlightenment was foretold by all the buddhas she venerated, and her many names and benefits of reciting them.


==English Translation==
==English Translation==
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Revision as of 08:50, 26 January 2018

The sutra known as The Prophecy of Śrī Mahādevī (Skt. Śrī­mahā­devī­vyākaraṇa; Tib. ལྷ་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ་, lhamo chenmo pal lungten pa, Wyl. lha mo chen mo dpal lung bstan pa) is found in the General Sutra (Wyl. mdo sde) section of the Tibetan Kangyur (Toh. 193/739).

This sutra recounts events that took place in the realm of Sukhavati, and begins with Buddha recounting to the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara recounting the accomplishments of Śrī Mahādevī, along with a prophecy in which her future enlightenment was foretold by all the buddhas she venerated, and her many names and benefits of reciting them.

English Translation