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DONE Medicine Buddha scripture1 https://bdkamerica.org/download/2773/

outline

  • conversation between Mañjusŕi and the Buddha
    • the vows and land
      • vows to give beings whatever they need, such as food and clothing
      • vow to cure beings of diseases and disabilities
      • vow to turn women into men
      • vow to save beings from punishment by the law
      • marvelous land has no women, is made out of precious substances, is similar to the western land and full of bodhisattvas—beings should aspire to be born there
    • efficacity of remembering the name, worshipping the sūtra
      • those who are not happily willing to give away property they don't need will naturally go to unpleasant destinies as hungry ghosts or animals. but if they hear this buddha's name now, they may at that time give rise to a thought of it, and escape that condition, become humans and reform themselves.
      • similar goes for precept-breakers, those who disparage others, or who are plain disagreeable.
      • the name also assures good rebirth and that women can become men.
      • worshipping the sūtra according to a described procedure will ensure long life and wealth and dispel demons that steal vital energy
      • recalling this buddha's name and worshipping can save one from various calamities
  • Ānanda and the Buddha: the difficulty of faith and of meeting with this teaching
    • it may seem hard to believe that all these results are possible from something so simple. but in fact, it's difficult to even encounter the name. and all of this is due to that buddha's power, which he has built up through bodhisattva practices impossible to fully expound.
  • address from Saving Deliverance and questioning by Ānanda
    • deathbed practice
      • body gods report our actions to King Yama
      • a dying person is taken before King Yama to be judged, but if you get monks to come recite this sūtra, they can be brought back
      • it's ambiguous whether that means returned to life or just assured human rebirth in the same place
    • worshipping that buddha
      • ill people, kings facing epidemics or invasions, etc. are enjoined to donate to the saṇgha, worship this buddha with lamps and banners, recite the sūtra
    • these practices provide safety from untimely death
      • false divinatory teachings and meat sacrifices ineffective for stopping illness
  • 12 yakṣa generals who will defend those that uphold this teaching
  • appendix passage with dhāraṇī

DONE great compassion dhāraṇī sūtra2

there's a parallel version on that blog of @edwardw2 from twitter

PLEASE IGNORE the sanskrit version of the dhāraṇī as it is written in the pdf. it's not the real one people actually say, but a "reconstruction" by some academic. instead refer to the syllables here: http://fodizi.net/fojing/zhouyu/1017.html

recording of the mantra: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8613tU7dxws

DONE brahmā's net sūtra, fascicle 13

DONE brahmā's net sūtra, fascicle 24

DONE 2 āgamas on maitreya

DONE descent/ascent and lovingkindness

A. Charles Muller, and Kenneth K. Tanaka. The Brahmā’s Net Sutra. BDK America, 2017.
C. Pierce Salguero. Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources. Columbia University Press, 2017.
Iyanaga, Nobumi, and Rolf W. Giebel, eds. The Scripture of Master of Medicine, Beryl Radiance Tathāgata: Taishō Volume 14, Number 450. BDK English Tripitaka Series. Moraga, California: Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai America, Inc, 2018.

  1. Iyanaga and Giebel, The Scripture of Master of Medicine, Beryl Radiance Tathāgata; C. Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine See also version in ::↩︎

  2. C. Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine.↩︎

  3. A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka, The Brahmā’s Net Sutra.↩︎

  4. A. Charles Muller and Kenneth K. Tanaka.↩︎