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A. Wayman
IMPERATIVES IN THE BUDDHIST TANTRA MANTRAS
NOTES
1.
Delivered at the Sixth World Sanskrit Conference, University
of Pennsylvania, October 19, 1984, afternoon.
This is volume MA, or Tome 16, in the collected works of Bu-ston; cf. A Catalogue of the Tohoku University Collection of Tibetan Works on Buddhism (The Seminary of Indology, Tohoku University, 1953), where the contents of vol. MA are individually listed, pp. 31-65.
This information is from A. Wayman, Ms. Study of the Vairocanābhisambodhi-tantra.
From the Derge Kanjur, Rgyud 'bum, Vol. Thu, f. 291a-3, ff.
This Acala Tantra of the cāryatantra class has been edited in the Tibetan version by Jisshu Oshika, Acta Indologica, IV, Na ritasan Shinshoji, 1976/9, pp. 181-340, and the mantra I have cited is on p. 261.27-28.
Benoytosh Bhattacharya, ed., Sadhanamālā, Vol. I, (Baroda,
1968), text, p. 2.
Helmer Smith, Saddaniti (Lund, 1954), p. 1300. Benoytosh Bhattacharya, ed., Guhyasamāja Tantra (Baroda, 1967), p. 78.4 and.14.
cf. Alex Wayman, "The Sarvarahasyatantra," Studies of Mysticism in Honor of the 1150th Anniversary of Kobo Daishi's Nirvanam, Acta Indologica, VI, 1984, pp. 561-2. A. Wayman (n. 8, above), also pp. 561-2. Gajanan Balkrishna Palsule, A Concordance of Sanskrit Dhātupāthas (Poona, 1955).
11.
For the theory of these respective parts of the mantra, cf. F.D. Lessing and A. Wayman, Mkhas grub rje's Fundamen- tals of the Buddhist Tantras (The Hague, 1968), pp. 116-118.
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12. Transcription of part of the mantra within the Vajra-vida
rapa-nāma-dhārapi (basic Vajrapāni Tantra of the Kriya
tantra) from the Derge Kanjur edition. 13. A. Wayman (n. 8, above), also pp. 561-2. 14. B. Bhattacharya, ed. (n. 5, above), also p. 2. 15. Cf. A. Wayman, "The Significance of Mantras, from the Veda
Down to Buddhist Tantric Practice", reprinted in Buddhist Insight; Essays by Alex Wayman, ed. by George R. Elder
(Delhi, 1984), p. 429. 16. Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale, A Higher Sanskrit Grammar
(Delhi, reprint of 1977), Dhătukosha, pp. 24-5. 17. A. Wayman (n. 15, above), p. 429.
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