Includes text of prayers in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
摘要
Fundamental work based on original Sanskrit, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and the lost Iranian language Sogdian and Tibetan works-on the origin of Avalokitesvara. It indentifies the several prevalent folk-deities, which were assimilated into the iconographical form. The worship of Avalokitesvara was accompanied by a dharani (recited hymn). This work describes five versions of thedharani. The dharani is an essential part of the Zen repertoire of sutras. It was transliterated into Chinese eight times over a span of eight centuries: from the 7th to the 14th century.
目次
Foreword: Kapila Vatsyayan 7 Chap. 1 Introduction 9 Chap. 2 The Origin of Avalokita-savara / Avalokitesvara 18 Chap. 3 Assimilation of Deities into Avalokitesvara 29 Chap. 4 Iconography of the Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara 48
Chap. 5 Vulgate Version of the Hymn to Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara Constituted text of the Vulgate Version 93 Text of Bhagavaddharma (T 1060) 99 Text of Amoghavajra (T 1113B, commentary on Bhagavaddharma) 105 System of transliteration in the text of Amoghavajra (T 1113 B) 116 Second text of Amoghavajra (T 1111, a new transcription) 120 Suzuki's translation 130 Text of Ji-un Sonja 134 Korean text in transcription 139 Constituted Korean text 142 Korean text from a hymnal 143 Calligraphed Korean text 163 Tibetan / Chinese text 184
Chap. 6 Longer Version of the Hymn of Thousand-armed Avalikitesvara Constituted text of Vajrabodhi (T 1061) 189 Text of Vajrabodhi (T 1061) 192 Siddham text of Vajrabodhi (T 1061) 210 Transliteration system of Vajrabodhi (T 1061) 215 Second text of Ji-un Sonja 221 Sogdian text 228 Sarva-tathagata-tattva-sangraha version 232
Chap. 7 Tibetan Version of the Hymn to Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara Text of Tibetan Version 235
Chap. 8 Early version of the Hymn to Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara Constituted Text of Chih-t'ung (T 1057) 240 Siddham text of Chih-t'ung (T 1057) 241 Text of Chih-t'ung (T 1057) 245 Text of Chih-t'ung in the Korean Tripitaka 259
Chap. 9 Later Version of the Hymn to Thousand-armed Avalokitesvara 265 Devanagari text of the different versions 267
Chap. 10 Iconographic Types of Harihara 274 Literature cited 294
