Samādhirāja Sūtra Translation Plans?

[ThreeVows]

Are there any known plans for a full translation of the Samādhirāja Sūtra? It seems to be a very often-cited sutra and as far as I know it is only partially translated piecemeal into English.

Secondly, does anyone have experience with the partial English translations? Are they worth-while?

Thanks for any input.

[crazy-man]

English Resources
Author:Mitra, Rajendralala
Title:″Samādhirāja″
Publ. Date:1882
Publ. Details:in Mitra, p. 207-222

Author:Régamey, Konstanty
Title:Three Chapters from the Samādhirājasūtra
Publ. Date:1938
Publ. Details:Warsaw: Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie, 113 pp. (RKO 1)

Author:Thrangu Rinpoche
Title:King of Samadhi
Publ. Date:1994
Publ. Details:Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publ.

Author:Cüppers, Christoph
Title:The IXth Chapter of the Samādhirāja-sūtra
Publ. Date:1990
Publ. Details:Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag
Notes:Edited Sanskrit and Tibetan texts (romanized) and reprinted Chinese text (Taishō 639, pp.557-558) of the 9th chapter with English translation of the root text, along with Sanskrit and Tibetan pāda index; together with the Tibetan and English of the 9

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[ThreeVows]

I'm familiar with these, as I alluded to in my original post. For anyone else reading this, I'm interested in the questions that I originally posted. Thanks.

[Svalaksana]

Are there any news concerning a modern translation of the Samadhiraja Sutra that anyone might have heard?

I came across various quotations and it is referenced quite a lot on Hopkins' Mediation on Emptiness, which I'm currently reading and thus it sparked my interest.

[Malcolm]

Are there any known plans for a full translation of the Samādhirāja Sūtra?

It has been translated by the 84000 folks. Its right there in the reading room.

[Malcolm]

Hopkins' Mediation on Emptiness

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

[Svalaksana]

Hopkins' Mediation on Emptiness

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Thanks for the heads-up regarding the 84000 translation, Malcolm.

Why must our hope perish in flames upon glancing on Hopkins' Meditation? Is it because of its unabashedly Gelug leaning? I must say I found Chandrakirti's Slivers exposition and the Buddhapalita/Bhavaviveka debate section quite illuminating, among other things.

[Malcolm]

Hopkins' Mediation on Emptiness

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Thanks for the heads-up regarding the 84000 translation, Malcolm.

Why must our hope perish in flames upon glancing on Hopkins' Meditation? Is it because of its unabashedly Gelug leaning? I must say I found Chandrakirti's Slivers exposition and the Buddhapalita/Bhavaviveka debate section quite illuminating, among other things.

It is the Scilla and Charybdis of Madhyamaka translations.

[Svalaksana]

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Thanks for the heads-up regarding the 84000 translation, Malcolm.

Why must our hope perish in flames upon glancing on Hopkins' Meditation? Is it because of its unabashedly Gelug leaning? I must say I found Chandrakirti's Slivers exposition and the Buddhapalita/Bhavaviveka debate section quite illuminating, among other things.

It is the Scilla and Charybdis of Madhyamaka translations.

I chuckled, but I'm honestly interested in your opinion, wouldn't mind a bit more specificity though. Does that mean it is a bad translation, a hard translation, both, or none?

[Malcolm]

Thanks for the heads-up regarding the 84000 translation, Malcolm.

Why must our hope perish in flames upon glancing on Hopkins' Meditation? Is it because of its unabashedly Gelug leaning? I must say I found Chandrakirti's Slivers exposition and the Buddhapalita/Bhavaviveka debate section quite illuminating, among other things.

It is the Scilla and Charybdis of Madhyamaka translations.

I chuckled, but I'm honestly interested in your opinion, wouldn't mind a bit more specificity though. Does that mean it is a bad translation, a hard translation, both, or none?

It’s book that has crushed the spirit of many Madhyamaka adventurers. It’s nit so easy a book for beginners, that’s all.

[Leo Rivers]

Unfortunately I skated over there thinking "If anyone translated the Akṣobhyavyūha into English, THEY would've!"

They haven't.


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[Zhen Li]

Unfortunately I skated over there thinking "If anyone translated the Akṣobhyavyūha into English, THEY would've!"

They haven't.


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Isn't it in Garma Chang's A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras?

[Leo Rivers]

Great... i will check that out. I myself made a list putting the sanskrit names to the chapters. Jan Nattier's thr Indian Roots of Pure Land Buddhism is on pdf all over the internet too

The Indian Roots of Pure Land Buddhism Jan Nattier ...
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Nattier: Indian Roots of Pure Land Buddhism 193 In sum, by reading the earlier and later versions of the larger Sukhvatvyha in conjunction, we can observe a clear process of development: from the Akobhyavyha to the early Sukhvatvyha translations (produced by Lokakema and Zhi Qian in the second and third centuries) to the fifth-century ...