Vedanta and Bhagvatam
Vedanta and Bhagvatam
Buddhist Studies
Volume 21 Number 2 1998
PIERRE ARfcNES Herm6neutique des tantra: 6tude de quelques usages du sens cach6 GEORGES DREYFUS The Shuk-den Affair: History and Nature of a Quarrel ROBERT MAYER The Figure of MaheSvara/Rudra in the rNin-ma-pa Tantric Tradition JOHN NEWMAN Islam in the Kalacakra Tantra MAX NIHOM Vajravinaya and VajraSaunda: A 'Ghost' Goddess and her Syncretic Spouse TILMANN VETTER Explanations of dukkha Index to JIABS 11-21, by Torn TOMABECHI English summary of the article by P. Arenes
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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Islam's impact on Indian Buddhism is well known to historians of religion: after the Muslim conquest of the Buddhist homeland in northeastern India at the beginning of the 13th century CE, Buddhism ceased to exist as an institutional religious force. Although remnants of Buddhist culture continued to survive for several centuries, Muslim political and economic domination of northern India insured that Buddhist monasteries would not be reborn from their ashes. The attitude of the Muslims who invaded India towards Buddhism is amply documented by Muslim historians - as idolatrous infidels Buddhists were put to the sword or enslaved, and their temples were looted and destroyed, all as acts of religious merit.2 It is not surprising that this violent persecution produced fear and hatred in the minds of the victims. Commenting on the results of Mahmud of GhaznT's famous raids during the first decades of the 11th century, al-BIrunl writes:
* An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. I am grateful to Drs. Beth Newman, Michael Sweet, Leonard Zwilling, Cynthia Talbot, and Richard Salomon for criticism and comments on earlier drafts of this paper. 1. SACHAU 1989:1.19. 2. For Muslim accounts of the Turkish attacks on East Indian Buddhist monasteries see WARDER 1980: 506-8. For a Tibetan eye-witness account of such raids see ROERICH 1959: xviii-xxii, 93-94. "The notion [of dlih&d] stems from the fundamental principle of the universality of Islam: this religion, along with the temporal authority which it implies, ought to embrace [the] whole universe, if necessary by force... [With regard to idolaters:] their conversion to Islam is obligatory under pain of being put to death or reduced into slavery" (EI ii.538a).
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MahmGd utterly ruined the prosperity of the country and performed there wonderful exploits, by which the [Indians] became like atoms of dust scattered in all directions, and like a tale of old in the mouth of the people. Their scattered remains cherish, of course, the most inveterate aversion towards all Muslims. This is the reason, too, why [Indian] sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which our hand cannot yet reach, to Kashmir, Benares, and other places. And there the antagonism between them and all foreigners receives more and more nourishment from both political and religious sources.3
Al-Blrum's report that 'antagonism between Indians and foreigners received nourishment from religious sources' suggests Hindus and Buddhists were aware of the threat Islam posed. However, a standard history of India, commenting on Indian reactions to the Muslim Turkic invasions of the 11th and 12th centuries, states:
There was an awareness that an entirely new force had arrived on the Indian scene, but there was hardly any curiosity about it. That the conquerors would supersede the indigenous rulers in the political sphere was acknowledged; but the wider implications - such as the likelihood that the newcomers would alter and modify the pattern of Indian culture - was not at first clearly realized (THAPAR 1974: 266). The people of India curiously do not seem to have perceived the new arrivals as a unified body of Muslims (THAPAR 1989: 223).
In fact as early as the beginning of the 11th century some Indian Buddhists were very curious about the new religion that had recently appeared on their western horizon, and perceived it to be a threat to traditional Indian culture. As we will see, the Kalacakra tantra is a remarkable exception to the rule that in classical Indian literature "the Muslims, who were not only present in India for many centuries, but were its actual rulers, appear only in vague and marginal references" (HALBFASS 1988: 182); "the Sanskrit tradition has never taken official notice of the existence of Islam" (ERNST 1992: 30); "I would lay stress on this - the religious identity of the Central Asians [who invaded India] is not once thematized in Sanskrit sources" (POLLOCK 1993: 286). In Sanskrit literature the Kalacakra tantra is unique in presenting a fairly comprehensive and quite accurate portrayal of Islamic beliefs and practices.
3. SACHAU 1989: 1.22; see also 19-23. I have replaced Sachau's "Hindus" with [Indians], because in this passage al-Blrunl clearly intends an inclusive ethnonym, not a religious denomination, as SACHAU himself no doubt recognized. Note also the following passage: "Another circumstance which increased the already existing antagonism between [Indians] and foreigners is that the socalled Shamaniyya (Buddhists), though they cordially hate the Brahmans, still are nearer akin to them than to others" (SACHAU 1989:1.21).
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Also, the Buddhist authors of the Kalacakra developed strategies for dealing with Islam that grew out of their own religious preoccupations, in line with the contemporary religious milieu. The Kalacakra Tantra The source for this study is the literature of the Indian Buddhist Kalacakra tantra tradition.4 The Kalacakra, or "Wheel of Time," was the last major product of Indian Vajrayana Buddhism. All late Vajrayana Buddhism is syncretic - it takes elements from non-Buddhist religious traditions and assimilates them to a Buddhist context. However, in the Kalacakra tantra syncretism is unusually obvious and is even selfconscious - the tantra makes little effort to disguise its borrowings from the Saiva, Vaisnava, and Jaina traditions. The basic structure of the Kalacakra system is itself non-Buddhist: the Kalacakra uses the ancient idea of the homology of the macrocosm and the microcosm as the foundation of its soteriology. Islam appears in both the macrocosm and the microcosm of the Kalacakra mysticism. In this essay I have attempted to collect, edit, translate, and analyze all of the references to Islamic beliefs and practices appearing in the earliest stratum of the Indian Kalacakra corpus. There are in addition numerous references to the Muslim "barbarians" in other passages dealing with the myth of the Kalkins of Sambhala (see below, and NEWMAN 1995), but they do not directly bear on our assessment of the Kalacakra's knowledge of Islam as a historical reality, the main focus of this study. Much of the Indian Kalacakra literature exists in the original Sanskrit, and all of this is available in Tibetan translation. References to Islam appear in the following Indian Kalacakra texts: I. Paramddibuddhoddhrta-$rT~Kdlacakra-ndma-tantrardja (henceforth 'Sri Kalacakra'), together with its commentary VimalaprabM-ndma-mulatantrdnusdrinT-dvddaiasdhasrikd-laghukdlacakratantrarajatlka (henceforth 'Vimalaprabha'). II. $rT-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya~ndma (henceforth 'Tantrahrdaya'). III. Svadarianamatoddeia IV. SrT-Paramdrthasevd
4. Here tantra has two connotations: its primary meaning is a system of mysticism; by extension, it also refers to the revealed texts that teach such a system. Thus, the Kalacakra tantra is taught in the tin Kalacakra and other tantras belonging to the Kalacakra corpus of buddha-vacanam.
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The SrT Kalacakra and Vimalaprabhd are complete in Sanskrit; at least one-fourth of the Sanskrit of the Paramarthasevd has survived;5 but apart from brief quotations we have only Tibetan translations of the Tantrahrdaya and the Svadarianamatoddesa. The SrT Kalacakra is the Kalacakra laghutantra - it is traditionally held to be the condensed redaction of the Paramddibuddha, the Kalacakra mulatantra, which is attributed to the Buddha. The SrT Kalacakra is an esoteric treatise that, together with its massive commentary the Vimalaprabhd, is our main source for the Indian Kalacakra tantra tradition. The rT Kalacakra, according to its own account, was composed by YaSas, an emanation of the bodhisattva ManjuSri, who was the first Kalkin emperor of the mythical Inner Asian land of Sambhala. The Vimalaprabhd claims itself to be written by YaSas' son Pundarika, the second Kalkin of Sambhala, an emanation of the bodhisattva AvalokiteSvara. The Tantrahrdaya is a supplement (tantrottara) to the SrT Kalacakra attributed to YaSas, and Yaas also composed the Svadarfanamatoddeia, an independent verse treatise. The Paramarthasevd, by Pundarika, is an independent work of didactic poetry.6 We can safely assume that 'YaSas' and 'Pundarika' are pseudonyms, elements of an elaborate mythology devised to provide the newly created Kalacakra tantra with a suitable Buddhist pedigree, in an attempt to introduce the Kalacakra to the Indian Buddhist intelligentsia of the early 11th century. A passage in Abhayakaragupta's SrT-Samputa-tantrardjatikd-AmndyamanjarT-ndma (composed ca. 1109 CE) informs us that some Buddhist cognoscenti indeed held 'YaSas' and 'Pundarika' to be pseudonyms, rejected their claim to the status of bodhisattva, and found much in the Kalacakra corpus that was incompatible with Buddhism (NEWMAN 1987b: 107-110). If we assume the names 'YaSas' and 'Pundarika' are products of mythogenesis, we can make some observations about the historical authors of these texts based on their contents. First, the authors were
5. The incomplete MS of the Paramarthasevd is National Archives Kathmandu no. 5-7235, Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project reel no. B 30/31, misleadingly catalogued under the title Kdlacakratantra. Brief excerpts are also imbedded in the Paramdrthasamgraha, GunabharanT, SekoddefatippanT, and Kriydsamuccaya. Unfortunately, I have not found the verses I have edited and translated below among the portions of the text that survive in Sanskrit. 6. For discussion of the myth and history surrounding these authors and texts see NEWMAN 1985; 1987a; 1987b: 70-113; 1995; 1996.
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highly educated masters of late Indian Vajrayana Buddhism. The Kalacakra literature demonstrates an intimate knowledge of 'anuttarayoga' tantras such as the Guhyasamaja, Hevajra, and Cakrasamvara; it also presupposes a thorough grounding in Sravakayana and non-tantric Mahayana philosophy and soteriology. In addition, the Vimalaprabha exhibits a more than passing acquaintance with brahmanical learning, citing such texts as the Rgveda, AstadhyayT, Samkhyakarika, Manusmrti, Mahabharata, etc. It is likely that the authors themselves were brahmans by caste, Buddhists by religious affiliation. An unusual feature of the earliest stratum of the Indian Kalacakra literature is its interest in what we might call ethnography. Although the most striking example of this is the Kalacakra's information on Muslims and Islam, the texts also comment on the religious and social customs of other people in India and abroad. In brief, we can characterize the authors of the early Kalacakra literature as erudite Indian Buddhists who situated their mysticism in a cosmopolitan cultural milieu. I believe the earliest stratum of the Indian Kalacakra literature, including the texts studied here, is the product of a small group of vajrdcdryas who flourished in northeastern India during the early decades of the 11th century CE. Members of the original Kalacakra cult included Atis*a's guru Pindo - a brahman Buddhist monk born in Java, and Naro (Naropada) - the famous vajrdcdrya of Nalanda. For discussion of this theory see NEWMAN 1987b:89-107. The SrT Kalacakra, Vimalaprabha, Tantrahrdaya, Svadarianamatoddeia, and Paramdrthasevd all can be dated with a remarkable degree of precision: all are quoted by name in the Paramdrthasamgraha-namaSekoddeSatTka1 composed by Naro, who probably died ca. 1040 CE.8
7. For the Paramdrthasamgraha quotations of the Sri Kalacakra see NlHOM 1984: 20; NEWMAN 1987a: 90, n. 11; GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: index s.v. Laghukdlacakratantra. For the Vimalaprabha see GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: index s.v. For the Tantrahrdaya (cited under the short titles Kdlacakrottara and Tantrottara) see NlHOM 1984: 20; GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: 218, 316-17. For the Svadaranamaloddes'a see Paramarthasamgraha p. 61 (cf. GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: 323). For the Paramdrthasevd see GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: index s.v. 8. See WYLIE 1982. WYLIE refers only to Alaka Chattopadhyaya's AtUa and Tibet for the story of Naro's last days (WYLIE 1982: 688-89, n. 14-16). For Tibetan sources for this important story see the AtiSa biographies (ElMER 1979: 2.17274, 1.225); dPa' bo gTsug lag phreng ba 1545: 673; and Padma dkar po 1575: 445. On Marpa's meeting with Ati$a and his subsequent search for Naro, in
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Even more important is the fact that the tin Kalacakra and the Vimalaprabha contain a year - 403 - which forms the basis for the epoch of the Kalacakra system of chronology and astronomy. The year 403 is the year of the lord of the mlecchas, Muhammad (I.2,3),9 and it is a solar calendar reckoning of a year in the Hijra era that can be reckoned as corresponding to 1024/25 CE (see NEWMAN 1998). The appearance of this year in the Sri Kalacakra and the Vimalaprabha - a terminus post quern, together with Naro's citations - a terminus ante quern, proves that these texts were completed between 1025 and ca. 1040 CE. Also, the Indo-Tibetan Kalacakra guru lineages originate early in the 11th century (NEWMAN 1987b: 89-107). In brief, both internal and external evidence indicates that the earliest stratum of the Kalacakra literature was composed during the early decades of the 11th century. It is certainly no mere coincidence that this was the very time Mahmud of Ghaznl launched his epoch-making raids into northwestern India. Buddhist Perceptions of Islam: the Barbarian Tayin The Kalacakra literature uniformly refers to Muslims as mlecchas - barbarians, and Islam is called the mleccha-dharma, the barbarian religion (1.1 ff.). In brahmanical usage the Sanskrit word mleccha commonly
addition to the Marpa hagiography cited by WYLIE (1982: 689), see Padma dkar po 1575: 445-52. I follow WYLIE in relying on the stories that place Naro's death shortly before Atisa's departure to Tibet, i.e., ca. 1040. This is not unlikely given the fact Ati$a was a junior contemporary of Naro. However, unlike WYLIE and other scholars, I have very little faith in the wonderfully precise dates given for the births and deaths of Tilo and Naro in their late Tibetan hagiographies. These dates are given in the Tibetan element-animal sexagenary cycle, which was never used in India. We must investigate how the Tibetans arrived at these dates before we rely too heavily on them. 9. Henceforth I cross-reference my discussion with the translations and text editions given in Parts 2 and 3. Thus (1.2,3) indicates the second and third extracts from the Sri Kalacakra and the Vimalaprabha; (II.4) denotes the fourth extract from the Tantrahrdaya, etc.
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denotes any foreigner who does not follow Indian customs,10 but the Kalacakra texts seem to apply it only to Muslims." The Kalacakra texts specify the identity of the barbarians: they are the Tayin. In Buddhist Sanskrit texts the word tdyin is widely used as a laudatory epithet of buddhas and bodhisattvas, meaning, among other things, "a protector" (EDGERTON 1972: 251-52); in this sense the Tibetans translate tayin as skyob pa. And in fact this common usage is well-attested in the Kalacakra literature.12 However, in the Kalacakra's discussion of the mlecchas "tayin" is given another, very different meaning; in this context the Tibetans translate it as stag gzig. We should
10. See al-Blrunl: "[A]ll their fanaticism is directed against those who do not belong to them - against all foreigners. They call them mleccha, i.e. impure, and forbid having any connection with them, be it by intermarriage or any other kind of relationship, or by sitting, eating, and drinking with them, because thereby, they think, they would be polluted... [IJn all manners and usages they differ from us to such a degree as to frighten their children with us, with our dress, and our ways and customs, and as to declare us to be devil's breed, and our doings the very opposite of all that is good and proper. By the by, we must confess, in order to be just, that a similar depreciation of foreigners not only prevails among us and the [Indians], but is common to all nations towards each other" (SACHAU 1989:1.1920). For excellent discussions of traditional brahmanical xenology see THAPAR 1971; HALBFASS 1988: 172-96. Indian Buddhist attitudes towards foreigners seem to have been somewhat different from the normative brahmanical attitude; a valuable study could be done comparing the two. 11. With a few exceptions, one could accurately gloss mleccha as 'Muslim' throughout the Kalacakra literature. On the other hand, the texts do not employ the term mleccha when referring to non-Muslim foreigners. For example, the Tibetans, whose beef-eating and lack of hygiene are equally barbarous from the author's point of view, are not called mlecchas (see III.2; and Tantrahrdaya P 152a6: bod na khrus dang gtsang spra med: "In Tibet there is no bathing or cleanliness"). This is probably due to the fact that the authors recognized the Tibetans as fellow Buddhists (NEWMAN 1987b: 362; 1996: 494, n. 10). 12. $n Kalacakra 5.68c refers to the "beneficent attitude of the Tayin [- the buddhas and bodhisattvas]" (tdyindm saukyabuddhis; skyob pa rnams kyi bde ba'i bio gros). Similarly, the Paramdrthasamgraha (p. 28.24-25), commenting on "protector" (tayin; skyob pa) in Sekoddeta 22b, reads: "The protection is [the buddhas'] proclamation of the path they saw. Since they do that, they are protectors, the Tathagatas and so forth" (tdyah svadrstamdrgoktih I tadyogdt tayinas tathdgatadayah I skyob pa nyid gzigs lam gsun pa I de la sbyor ba 'i phyir skyob ste I skyob pa ni skyob pa de bzin gtegs pa la sogs rnams so 1) (see GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: 205). Naro's gloss takes tdyin as a nominal stem in -in formed on tdyah; see EDGERTON 1972: 251-52. For an extensive bibliography on Buddhist Sanskrit tdyin see DE JONG 1974: 69, n. 4.
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first note that all the examples found in the Sanskrit texts edited below are declined in the genitive plural: tdyindm (Sanskrit and Tibetan: 1.2,3,7,10; Tibetan only: 11.1,4,7; IV.2). However, elsewhere in the Sri Kdlacakra and Vimalaprabha we find the feminine nominative singular form tdyini (Tib. stag gzig ma) in a list of eight ethnonyms denoting outcaste and tribal women.13 Thus, we can be confident that the underlying word is treated as nominal stem in -in; the masculine nominative singular would be tayT. The Kalacakra texts use tayin in place of the common Sanskrit term tdjika to refer to the mlecchas of the West. In Sanskrit literature tajika "urspriinglich die Araber bezeichnete, dann aber allgemein auf die westlichen islamischen Volker ausgedehnt wurde" (MAYRHOFER 1956: 492). Given the 11th century date of the Kalacakra texts, it is very unlikely that tayin refers specifically to 'Arabs,' who were not the main participants in the Muslim raids on India at the time. Since the Vimalaprabha refers to Persians14 independently of the Tayin, the Tayin are not simply 'Persians.' Instead we assume 'Tayin,' like 'Tajika,' is a somewhat vague ethnonym referring collectively to the Muslim Turks, Persians, and Arabs of the northwestern borderlands of the Indian world. The question remains, why did the authors use a well-known epithet of the buddhas and bodhisattvas to designate their antithesis, the barbarian Muslims, when the well-established word 'Tajika' was available? I suspect at least two factors come into play here. First, the authors of the Kalacakra literature exhibit a playful attitude towards language which reflects their philosophical view that words are only conventionally related to the objects they signify; thus a single word can have multiple and even contrary referents (cf. NEWMAN 1988). Second, this coinage
13. Vimalaprabha 3.5.126 (VP (S) B 132al [note: MS enumerates this verse as 124]; U II.112.6); $ri Kalacakra 3.134b, Vimalaprabha 3.5.134b (VP (S) B 132b4 [note: MS enumerates this verse as 131]; U 11.114.26, 115.4). VP (S) U consistently reads tdpini with no variants given. Although it is often very difficult to distinguish pa and ya in the MSS, I am confident in my reading, which agrees with Vira-Chandra ($K (S) V), Banerjee ($K (S) B) and, most importantly, with the Tibetan translation stag gzig ma TayinT stands at the northern point of the charnel-ground circle of the Kalacakra's ganacakra: Mlecchl, Haddl, Matahgl, TayinI, Varvarl, PukkasI, BhillT, and Sabari. This list demonstrates that the author viewed the tayin - in Indian terms - as comparable to an outcaste or tribal group, and it shows that mleccha and tayin are not synonymous. 14. parasika; pa ra si ka (NEWMAN 1987b: 362).
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reflects their predilection to transcribe names of Arabic origin with meaningful Sanskrit terms: compare the etymologies of Visavimla, Madhumatl, Varahi, Musa, Iga, MathanI, and Vagada in the Appendix. First we will look at the Kalacakra literature's representation of the social customs of the barbarian Tayin, then we will examine its depiction of their religious ideology and practices. Barbarian Customs As a rule, the Kalacakra presents the barbarian customs as contrary to Indian brahmanical norms. The mleccha diet is especially abhorrent. In a verse in the Sri Kalacakra the Buddha says:
[The barbarians] kill camels, horses, and cattle, and briefly cook the flesh together with blood. They cook beef and amniotic fluid with butter and spice, rice mixed with vegetables, and forest fruit, all at once on the fire. Men eat that, O king, and drink bird eggs, in the place of the demon [barbarians] (1.5. See also 1.6; 11.1,4; III.2).
We do not know the extent to which this diet reflects actual Muslim practice, and how much of it is derogatory fiction. The reference to the barbarian fondness for beef and raw eggs, mentioned in several passages, is probably derived from observation. Beef-eating, of course, is particularly repugnant to orthodox brahmans. The alleged mleccha consumption of blood is noteworthy: blood is one of the few foods expressly forbidden in the Koran and by later Islamic tradition (EI1 iii.l56ab; EI ii. 1061b, 1069a). Perhaps the author encountered Muslims who ignored this fundamental dietary law; perhaps he simply falsely ascribed an imagined barbarity to them. In any case, the purpose of this verse and the other references to the mleccha diet is clear: the barbarian diet is an element of their conduct that serves to define them as barbarians, as outsiders who engage in unacceptable behavior. As we will see later, mleccha dietary practice also has a religious dimension. Tayin marriage customs are similarly outlandish from an Indian brahmanical perspective. The Tantrahrdaya notes that in Makka {makha) a barbarian takes his paternal uncle's daughter in marriage (II.3; cf. 1.9; IV. 1). Such a marriage of paternal parallel cousins is considered equivalent to incest between siblings.15
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While these dietary and marriage practices do not find favor with the authors of the Kalacakra texts, they note some barbarian customs with tacit approbation. The mleccha Tayin reject the doctrine of multiple castes, and live as a single group (1.14; II.4). This contrasts with the casteism of the brahmanical caste system (I.14).16 The barbarians respect each other's property, they are truthful, and they practice hygiene (II.4). They avoid each other's wives, and maintain the "asceticism" of remaining faithful to their own wives (II.4). The barbarians are fierce and heroic in battle (1.1), and the might of their cavalry is specifically mentioned (II.4). Barbarian Teachers We now turn to the history of the barbarian religion. In a verse in the SrT Kalacakra the Buddha prophesies the origin and development of the mlecchadharma: Adam (arda), Nuh (nogha), and Ibrahim (vardht) [are the first three barbarian teachers]; there are also five others whose nature is tamas]7 in the family of demonic snakes: Musa (musa), 'Isa (i$a), the White-Clad One (tvetavastrin), Muhammad (madhupati), and the Mahdl (mathant), who will be the eighth - he will belong to the darkness. The seventh will clearly be born in the city of Baghdad (vdgadd) in the land of Makka (makha), where the demonic incarnation - the mighty, merciless idol of the barbarians - lives in the world (1.5).'8 marriages may have been among the Muslims the Kalacakra authors are likely to have encountered. Manu 3.5 says: "A woman who [does not] belong to the same lineage (of the sages) [gotra] on her father's side... is recommended for marriage to twice-born men" (DONIGER 1991: 43). A man's paternal uncle necessarily belongs to the same gotra, and thus his daughters are prohibited as marriage partners. 16. Buddhism, like Islam, generally espouses egalitarianism in the context of religious practice (see DE JONG 1990). It seems that the Kalacakra texts' references to Muslim egalitarianism reflect a perceivedritualand doctrinal parallel between Islam and Buddhism in contrast to the casteism and ritual exclusivity of orthodox brahmanism. 17. The Kalacakra appropriates the Samkhya notion of the three gunas - sattva, rajas, tamas - as a religio-anthropological classification system. Buddhists are sdttvika - endowed with goodness and light. Tfrthikas - the followers of nonBuddhist Indian religious traditions - are rdjasa: their nature is a mixture of good and evil. The mleccha Tayin, of course, are tamasa - having a vicious, dark nature. Manu 12.39-41 (DONIGER 1991: 282-83) posits a very different division of humanity on the basis of the three gunas, but agrees that mlecchas derive from tamas (Manu 12.43). Cf. HALBFASS 1991: 357-63. 18. For previous study of this verse see HOFFMANN 1960, 1969; NEWMAN 1987b: 594-614; OROFINO 1995.
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As Daniel MARTIN and Giacomella OROFINO have suggested, it appears that this list of barbarians derives from a sevener Shi'I source.' 9 The Isma'TUs hold that Adam, Nuh (Noah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), 'Isa (Jesus), and Muhammad are the first six natiq ("enunciators"), who will be followed by Muhammad b. Isma'Tl, the hidden imam who will return as the Mahdl (EI iv.203ab; DAFTARY 1990: 139-40 and s.v. natiq). We know that Isma'TlI da'T - missionaries (see EI ii.97b98a; DAFTARY 1990: s.v.) - were active in Sindh from the latter part of the 9th century, and that they succeeded in establishing an Isma'TlI stronghold in Multan during the second half of the 10th century which survived into the early 11th century (STERN 1949; AL-HAMDANI 1956: 1-8; EI iv.l98a, 199a; WINK 1990: 212-18; DAFTARY 1990: 118-19, 125, 176, 180, 198,210-11,228). On the other hand, the Mubayyida (White-Clad) followers of Abu Muslim (d. 755 CE), also believed in a nearly identical succession of teachers, replacing (or identifying?) the Mahdl with Abu Muslim:
About two decades after the death of Abu Muslim, al-Mukanna'... appeared in Trans-oxania to lead another [anti-'Abbasid] revolutionary movement. His following was composed of white-clad (Ar. Mubayyida, Pers. Sapld-djamagan) Soghdian peasants and by Turkish tribesman. He claimed to be the final divine incarnation after Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Mus5, 'Isa, Muhammad and Abu Muslim... The sect of the Mubayyida is still mentioned as surviving in the 6th/12thcentury (EI v.64a; cf. EI iii.617a, iv.l6ab, v. 1234a).
The reference to "the White-Clad One" (fvetavastrin) here, and references to white-clad {Svetavastram, fvetavdsin) Tayin ascetics discussed below, may support the hypothesis that the Sri Kalacakra's list of barbarians derives from a Mubayyida source. However, thus far we have not solved the vexing puzzle of the identity of the sixth barbarian teacher - the White-Clad One.20 Also, it must be
19. This hypothesis linking the tiriKalacakra's list of mlecchas with the Mubayyida or the Isma'TUs was first suggested in an unpublished paper titled "The veiled prophet of Khurasan and the revolutions of the Wheel of Time" written by Daniel MARTIN in 1984. Recently Giacomella OROFINO (1995) has independently arrived at a very similar hypothesis. 20. Helmut HOFFMANN (1960: 98; 1969: 57-59, 67) identified "The White-Clad One" as Mani, and interpreted this verse as reflecting a syncretic knowledge of "Manichaeism, Christianity, and Islam in the Kalacakra tantra." As I have argued elsewhere, it is much simpler to interpret the entire list of mlecchas as being
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noted that the $rl Kdlacakra specifies eight barbarian teachers, with Muhammad as the seventh and the Mahdl as the eighth, whereas the Isma'IlT traditions that follow this sequence of natiqs appear to be unanimous that Muhammad was the sixth natiq and that the Mahdl will be the seventh (DAFTARY 1990: 105, 128-29, 139, 177-79, 219). It is unclear whether this discrepancy represents confusion on the part of the author of the Sri Kdlacakra, or rather that his Muslim informant communicated a variant sevener ShT'T tradition about which we have no information. The reference to Baghdad (see below) further complicates matters. It seems unlikely that a sevener Shi'T informant in the early 11th century would revere Baghdad given the long and bitter conflict between the 'Abbasid Caliphate and the Shi'I. Perhaps the author of the Sri Kdlacakra has drawn a composite picture of Islam based on a variety of sources. With regard to the eighth barbarian teacher, the tantra reads: "the Mahdl, who will be the eighth - he will belong to the darkness" (mathanl yo 'stamah so 'ndhakah sydt). Given the context, I take it as certain that matham - "the Destroyer" is a pejoratively meaningful transcription of Arabic mahdl- "the Rightly Guided One" (EI v. 1230b ff.). The word andham indicates "darkness," and by extension, "spiritual ignorance." I interpret andhaka - "he will belong to the darkness" - as an allusion to the occultation of the Mahdl (EI v. 1235b ff.; DAFTARY 1990: s.v. ghayba and "hidden imams"), noting that a literal reading of the Sanskrit carries a pejorative connotation. If this interpretation is correct, this reference to the occultation of the Mahdl in the Kalacakra's list of mleccha teachers strongly suggests that this list was obtained from a ShT'T source:
Belief in the coming of the Mahdl of the Family of the Prophet became a central aspect of the faith in radical SJhT'ism in contrast to Sunnism. Distinctively ShT'T was also the common belief in a temporary absence or occultation (ghayba) of the Mahdl and his eventual return in glory (EI v. 1235b).
The Kalacakra literature pays special attention to the seventh of the mleccha teachers listed above. The person responsible for the introduction of the barbarian religion will be "Muhammad, the incarnation
derived solely from an Islamic source, and there is no evidence that the authors of the Kalacakra had knowledge of Manichaeism or any other Western religion apart from Islam (NEWMAN 1987b: 603-9).
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(avatdra)2] of ar-Rahman, the teacher of the barbarian religion, the guru and master (svdmin) of the barbarian Tayin" {madhumati rahmandvatdro mlecchadharmade&ako mlecchdndm tdyindm guruh svdmi) (1.3; cf. 1.2; II.2,6). As noted above, the epoch of the Kalacakra astronomy is based on the era of Muhammad, the Hijra era (1.3). In the $ri Kalacakra the Buddha prophesies that in fourteen hundred years22 Muhammad will introduce the demonic religion of the barbarian Tayin in the city of Baghdad (vdgadd) (1.4,5) in the land of Makka (makha) (1.2,5; II.3). There is, of course, some confusion here. Muhammad (d. 632 CE) was not born in Baghdad (founded 762 CE; EI i.894b ff.), and Makka is not a "land." However, it is easily understandable that a writer in 11th century India, just beyond the fringe of the Muslim conquests, could have made Makka - the birthplace of Muhammad and Islam's holiest city - into a country, and then placed in it Baghdad, the nominal political center of the Sunn! Islamic world. Barbarian Ideology What, then, are the beliefs of the followers of Muhammad? The mleccha Tayin worship a mighty, merciless, demonic death-deity named arRahman (rahman)23 (1.3,7,10). Here we recognize the most common Muslim epithet for Allah: in Arabic ar-Rahman means "The Benefactor" (EI i.406b ff., 408a, 1084b-85a). Ar-Rahman is the Creator who creates all animate and inanimate things for the enjoyment of the Tayin (1.7) (EI i.407a). By satisfying ar-Rahman a man achieves bliss in heaven; by displeasing ar-Rahman a man suffers in hell (1.7,10) (EI i.408b-9a, 412b-13a).
21. In the bilingual Arabic-Sanskrit coins minted in the Punjab by Mahmud of Ghaznl in the Tajika years (tdjikiyena samvata) 418 and 419 (i.e., 418-19 A.H. = 1027-28 CE), the Sanskrit avatdra is used to translate Arabic rasul - 'messenger' or 'prophet* - as an epithet of Muhammad in the kalima: avyaktam eka muhammada avatdra nrpati mahamuda (SIRCAR 1983: 650-51). The Vimalaprabha (1.3) refers to "the incarnation of the [barbarian] death-deity in battle" (samgrdme mdradevat&vatdram). 22. The Kalacakra chronology places the Buddha in the 8th century BCE; see below,
and NEWMAN 1998.
23. This is a consonant-final stem, declined like a root-stem. Thus in Sri Kalacakra 2.158d and Vimalaprabhd 2.7.158cd (1.7) we find the instrumental rahmana and the genitive rahmanah. LORENZEN (1972: 62) reports "a Rahamana (a Muslim)" in a list of heretics found in Yasahpala's Mohardjapardjaya, which he dates to ca. 1175 (1972: 49, n. 141).
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At death a man is judged by ar-Rahman, and experiences his destiny in heaven or hell in that very corporeal human form (1.10) (EI i.407a, 1092a). The Tayin assert that the person is spontaneously generated (upapdduka-pudgala; cf. EDGERTON 1972: 162-63), an epiphenomenon {upapattyangika-pudgala) of the material human body it inhabits (1.14). The Tayin reject the Buddhist notion that a person's experiences are the results of his karma; they reject the concept of reincarnation (1.10); and they deny that there is any sort of nirvana beside the achievement of heaven (1.14). Barbarian Religious Practices From the Buddhist perspective, the most repugnant feature of the barbarian religion is the practice of animal sacrifice. The mlecchas slit the throats of animals while saying the mantra of their demonic deity Visavimla, 'Withered by Poison'; that is, bismillah - "in the name of Allah" (1.1; cf. III.l). 24 The mleccha religion prescribes eating the flesh of animals slaughtered with this mantra, and prohibits consuming the meat of those that die naturally, that die due to their own karma (1.1; cf. I.6).25 Violation of this precept bars one from entrance to heaven (IV.2; cf. II. 1).
24. EI ii.213b: "For the Isacrificial victim] to be validly put to death and the animal concerned to be permissible as food [the correct method must be employed]. Otherwise the dead animal will be regarded as carrion (mayta) and therefore legally unfit for consumption except in the case of absolute necessity. At the moment of slaughter it is obligatory to have the necessary intention and to invoke the name of God. [I.e., the basmala. EI i. 1084a: "The invocation of the basmala, at the beginning of every important act, calls down the divine blessing upon this act and consecrates it."] ... The [method of slaughter] consists of slitting the throat, including the trachea and the oesophagus;... the head is not to be severed." The Buddhist doctrine of non-violence, on the other hand, extends even to prohibit consumption of the meat of animals killed specifically for the consumer: "[I]f the monk who received meat and the donor who gave it to him were not responsible for killing the animal, if they had neither seen, heard, nor suspected that the animal had been killed on purpose for him, then the meat was pure; eating it was not an offense [against the monastic code]" (WlJAYARATNA 1990: 71). The same principle, in theory at least, is applied to the Buddhist laity. In both cases, however, the issue of 'responsibility' is narrowly defined, being restricted to actual slaughter or direct inducement to slaughter. 25. EI1 iii.156: "Malta ... means an animal that has died in any way other than by slaughter. In later terminology the word means firstly an animal that has not been slain in the ritually prescribed fashion, the flesh of which therefore cannot be
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Not only do the barbarians eat forbidden and repulsive foods, they eat at odd times as well. While Buddhist ascetics take their meals during the day before noon, Tayin ascetics dine after sundown and at night (1.6; IV.2). The fact that the texts refer specifically to 'ascetic' fasting may indicate knowledge of the Islamic voluntary fast (EI1 iv.l96a) rather than the obligatory fast of Ramadan (EI1 iv.l94b). In any case, the Islamic tradition of fasting during the daytime and eating at night (EI1 iv.l93b) is quite contrary to normative Buddhist asceticism, which restricts meals to the period between sunrise and noon (WlJAYARATNA 1990: 68). Tayin religious garb is also contrary to Buddhist conventions. Buddhist ascetics wear red clothing, and are forbidden the white clothing of Indian laymen. Mleccha ascetics (tapasvin) dress in white, but there is no rule on this matter for barbarian laymen (1.6; cf. 1.5,11). The Buddhist monastic code prohibits monks and nuns from wearing white clothing, and common Indian ascetic tradition advocates the wearing of ochre (WlJAYARATNA 1990: 37, cf. 32). However, the Kalacakra's specification that mleccha ascetics wear white is intriguing. We are not given enough information to identify with certainty the Muslim tradition alluded to, but as noted above, it may refer to some segment of the Mubayyida ('White-Clad') movement. Mleccha prayer practices are also noteworthy. The Tayin first wash, then they bow down, five times each day: at noon, in the afternoon, in the evening, at midnight, and at sunrise (II.4). When praising their deity they kneel (1.6), and draw in their limbs like a tortoise (1.12). This is a brief but fairly accurate description of the Islamic ritual prayer. The obligatory ritual ablution is mentioned (EI1 iv.97b), and the order of the five services corresponds exactly to the traditional presentation of the sequence (EI1 iii.492b-93a). The 'bowing' presumably refers to the sujjjud; the 'kneeling' to the g!julus (EI1 iv.99b). The barbarian religion demands something of its followers that the author of the Paramdrthasevd found bizarre. It reads: "The Tayin cut the skin from the tips of their penises26 as a cause for happiness in heaven" (IV.2). Although the Muslim doctors of jurisprudence differ as
eaten...". By way of contrast, the Vimalaprabha 's apology for meat consumption in Vajrayana ritual notes that Buddhist tantric yogis indeed consume various types of flesh (albeit in tiny pellets), but such meat must not be the product of a sacrifice, and the animal should preferably have died of natural causes (NEWMAN 1987b: 265-67). 26. EI v.20b: "As regards males it is obligatory to cut off the whole skin which covers the glans, so that this latter is wholly denuded."
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to whether circumcision is obligatory or merely customary (El v.20a), its importance is well established in Islamic practice.27 Barbarian iconoclasm is also mentioned: the Tayin cavalry conduct raids to destroy Buddhist and non-Buddhist temples containing anthropomorphic images (II.4; cf. 11.5,6; 1.8). During the first quarter of the 11th century Mahmud of Ghaznl made greed-motivated, religiously sanctioned raids on Indian temples a key element of his very active foreign policy.28 Given the date of the Kalacakra texts, their references to Muslim iconoclasm must refer to the expeditions of Mahmud, and they are echoes of the terrible jihad he visited upon northwestern India. A Buddhist Appraisal of Islam We may summarize the Kalacakra tantra's perception of Islamic beliefs and practices as follows: from the Buddhist point of view Islam is demonic and perverse, a perfect anti-religion which is the antithesis of Buddhism (daitya-dharma; asura-dharma; atyantddharma; adharma) (1.13,14,15; see also Vimalaprabha 1.8.22: viparyasa-dharma). Islam's theology of an omnipotent Creator who consigns men to heaven or hell based on their pleasing or displeasing him is classed with the lowest of Indian ideologies. 29 The Islamic belief that ar-Rahman makes his
27. EI v.20b: "To the uneducated mass of Muslims ... as well as to the great mass of non-Muslims, both of whom pay the greatest attention to formalities, abstention from pork, together with circumcision, have even to a certain extent become the criteria of Islam. The exaggerated estimation of the two precepts finds no support in the law, for here they are on the same level with numerous other precepts, to which the mass attaches less importance." 28. See, e.g., GANGULY 1979: 5-23. GANGULY (1979: 23) is no doubt correct that "[Mahmud's] ruthless destruction of temples and images ... violated the most sacred and cherished sentiments of the Indian people, and his championship of Islam therefore merely served to degrade it in their eyes such as nothing else could." Referring to expeditions of plunder such as those of Mahmud, WINK (1990: 302) says, "The Turkish conquest of Northern India was, in the final analysis, a goldrush..." He also makes the important point that "the rhetoric of the 'holy war'" in Muslim conquest historiography tends to obscure the underlying political and economic objectives of the Muslim invaders (WINK 1990: 196-201). 29. In the Kalacakra doxography Islamic dogma does not merit an independent refutation (NEWMAN 1992: 227-28; GR0NBOLD 1992). On the one hand, Islamic creationism is covered by the standard Buddhist refutation of ISvara, Visnu or Brahma as creator (see $n Kalacakra 2.162; GRONBOLD 1992: 287-88); on the other, the Islamic doctrine that Allah punishes and rewards humans based on their obedience to his law is passed over in silence. Also, Tayin beliefs are placed in the same verse as those of the LokSyata, materialists whom the Buddhists
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followers cut off their foreskins in order to enter heaven is viewed as exotic and bizarre. The Kalacakra tantra represents Islam as a religion of violence (himsadharma) that advocates savage behavior (raudra-karman) (1.6). It understands the consecration in the name of Allah of animals to be slaughtered as an animal sacrifice to the barbarian god, who is a merciless deity of death (mara-devata) (1.1,5), a god of darkness (II.6) comparable to Rahu, the demon who devours the sun and the moon (II.4). The texts exhibit concern about the destructive raids of Tayin cavalry on the Buddhist and non-Buddhist temples of India (11.4,6). The Kalacakra tantra presents several strategies for dealing with the new Islamic challenge. Buddhist Strategies for Dealing with Islam First, the tantra prohibits its own adherents from participating in the barbarian religion. Second, it holds out the possibility of converting the barbarians to Buddhism. Third, it uses the threat of Islam in antibrahman polemics. Finally, it prophesies a Buddhist holy war against Islam. As an item in a list of twenty-five prohibited behaviors, the Sri Kalacakra requires that initiates into this tantra refrain from practicing Islam (1.13). This contrasts starkly with the tantra's general attitude of tolerance towards the performance of non-violent forms of tirthika religious practice,30 and it no doubt derives from the tantra's perception of Islam as being intrinsically contrary (taddharmavirodhi) (1.6) to the Buddhist principle of non-violence. While recognizing the violent tendencies of the barbarian Tayin, the Kalacakra does not abandon them as being completely outside the range of the Buddha's compassion. It asserts that with skillful means the Buddha is able to wean the mlecchas away from their own crude dogma about the person, and to convert them to the personalist doctrine of the
consider to be nihilists. I assume this is due to a perceived similarity between Lokayata materialism and the Islamic doctrine that a person is inextricably connected to his material body. 30. For example, $rT Kalacakra 3.169 and Vimalaprabha 3.5.169 allow the Kalacakra initiate who understands reality to behave as a Buddhist, a Saiva, a naked Paramaharnsa, a Vaisnava, a householder who has undergone brahmanical initiation, a brahman, a Kapalika, a Jaina, an ordinary householder, a guard, a silent hermit, a madman, a Kaula, a scholar, or a pupil.
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Buddhist Vaibhasika school. Then, once they have heard the transcendent doctrine of the bodhisattvas, some barbarians can indeed eventually go on to achieve the path of perfect buddhahood (1.14). Islam also appears in the Kalacakra in the context of Buddhist antibrahman polemics. The Vimalaprabha compares the practice of animal sacrifice expounded in the Vedic tradition to the animal sacrifice of the mlecchas, and concludes that they amount to the same thing in so far as both depend on killing living beings. It then warns brahman followers of the Veda that if they do not convert to Vajrayana Buddhism, their descendants will eventually become barbarians. It says that since there is no difference between the mleccha religion and the Vedic religion with respect to animal sacrifice, when the brahmans see the power of the barbarians in war, and the might of the barbarian death-deity, they will convert to the barbarian religion. Once the brahmans have converted, it says, the other castes will follow (1.1; cf. 1.9; IV. 1). The Kalacakra texts also use Muslim marriage practices to poke fun at brahman caste pretensions. To the brahman claim that their caste was born from the mouth of Brahma (cf. Rg Veda 10.90.11-12 [O'FLAHERTY 1981: 31]; Manu 1.31 [DONIGER 1991: 6-7]), the Buddhists reply that since female brahmans must originate from the same source, it follows that the brahmans commit incest, just like the mlecchas. This being the case, the brahmans degrade their caste, which according to brahmanical law results in birth in hell (1.9; IV. 1; cf. II.3). In retrospect we can see that defusing the barbarian threat by converting the mlecchas to Buddhism, or rallying Indians against foreign invasion by converting brahmans to Buddhism, had little chance for success. The Kalacakra tantra apparently recognizes this fact. Its primary approach to dealing with Islam is to counter the actual jihad of the Muslim invaders of South Asia with a prophetic apocalyptic myth of a Buddhist holy war against Islam. This Buddhist crusade is given both an exoteric and an esoteric interpretation, and we will consider each in turn.31 The Kalacakra tantra prophesies that in the future, in the last phase of the current degenerate age (kali-yuga), the barbarians will dominate southern Asia. All true religion will die out in the barbarian realm, and only the mleccha dharma will flourish. The mlecchas will be ruled by 31. For previous treatments of this topic see N W A 1985: 54-58, 78-80; 1987b: E MN 578-654; 1995; 1996: 486-87.
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their Mahdl named Krnmati.32 Finally, at the very end of the age, the messianic Buddhist warrior-king Kalkin Raudra Cakrin - a reincarnation of Mafijusri YaSas, the first Kalkin of Sambhala - will appear in the Inner Asian land of Sambhala. This bodhisattva emperor will lead the army of Sambhala in a righteous crusade against the barbarian army of Makka, and in Baghdad the war will erupt with the forces of Sambhala and the brahmanical gods on one side, the mlecchas and the demons on the other. Having killed the barbarian Mahdl and utterly annihilated the barbarian horde, Kalkin Cakrin will re-establish the Buddha Dharma, and will reign over a new golden age of happiness, prosperity, and righteousness.33 So much for the exoteric version of the myth. As mentioned previously, the Kalacakra tantra is primarily a mystical system of soteriology. In the esoteric interpretation the external war against the barbarians of Makka is explained to be a mere illusion that Kalkin Cakrin will conjure up to destroy the arrogance of the mlecchas: At the termination of the age, having seen the absolute anti-religion of the barbarians, [Kalkin Cakrin] will become as still as a mountain. By means of the mental concentration of the supreme horse, he will radiate limitless supreme horses that 32. Although it is not explicit in the tantra, I understand Krnmati, referred to in Sri Kalacakra 1.163 and 2.48, to be another name for MathanI, the Mahdl referred to in Sri Kalacakra 1.154. In this I agree with HOFFMANN (1960: 98). MathanI is the last of the prophesied Muslim teachers, and Krnmati is the mleccha opponent whom Kalkin Cakrin will slay at the end of the kaliyuga (see NEWMAN 1995: 288-89). Thus 1 assume the author of the tantra envisaged an apocalypse in which the Buddhist Kalkin defeats the Muslim Mahdl. The verbal root krt means "to cut, cut off, divide, tear asunder, cut in pieces, destroy" (APTE 1986: 598), and matih means, among other things, "intellect, heart, thought, intention, inclination" (APTE 1986: 1224). Thus, krnmatih can be interpreted as a tatpurusa: "the intention to destroy." This accords well with Vimalaprabha 2.3.48d, comment on $rl Kalacakra 2.48d: "the external Krnmati is, in the body, the path of non-virtue that gives suffering" (yo bahye krnmatir duhkhadata akuialapatha iti dehe). Therefore, in the exoteric aspect of the apocalypse Kalkin Cakrin, the Buddhist messiah, will thwart the Mahdi's intention to give further suffering to humankind. In the esoteric aspect of the apocalypse, Kalkin Cakrin, i.e., adamantine mind (vajrin, cittavajra), destroys the inclination towards evil that gives rise to samsaric suffering. I suspect Krnmati, like most of the other names for Muslim prophets found in the Kalacakra texts, is a pejorative transposition from an Arabic original, but I am unable to determine the underlying Arabic. 33. This prophesy is a Buddhist adaptation of the Vaisnava myth of Kalki of Sambhala, the prophesied avatdra of Visnu; see NEWMAN 1995.
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will dismay the barbarians, thus establishing them in his own Dharma. He will eradicate their dharma, not kill them (1.15).
The actual war takes place within the human microcosm. In the Kalacakra mysticism the war on the mlecchas serves as an allegory for the personal transformation that is the main subject of the tantra. In this interpretation the barbarian Mahdl symbolizes the path of nonvirtue. The mleccha army represents malice, ill-will, jealousy, and attachment. The Buddhist Kalkin is the gnosis of bliss and emptiness, and the Buddhist army stands for love, compassion, sympathy, and equanimity. Thus the myth of the external Armageddon is an allegory for the inner war of the spiritual path. The internal Buddhist jihad occurs when the gnosis actualized by the Kalacakra yoga destroys nescience and produces the golden age of enlightenment.34 The dual use of the Buddhist holy war against Islam exemplifies the basic structure of the Kalacakra tantra. In the macrocosm the prophesy of the destruction of the barbarians represents an apocalyptic revelation of the future of the world. In the microcosm the eradication of personal barbarism - ignorance and vice - ushers in a new age of enlightenment. Thus, in the Kalacakra the myth of the defeat of evil illustrates both the prophesied end of the world and the ultimate destiny of a human being. Conclusion The Kalacakra tantra's depiction of Islam can only be understood by placing it in its historical context. As al-BIrunl reports, Mahmud of Ghaznfs raids into northwestern India during the early decades of the 11th century must have engendered "the most inveterate aversion towards all Muslims" in the minds of many Indians. Mahmud's wide34. Among the meanings of djihad is "an effort directed upon oneself for the attainment of moral and religious perfection. Certain writers, particularly among those of hj'ite persuasion, qualify this djihad as 'spiritual jftihad' and as 'the greater djihad', in opposition to the djihad [of military action] which is called 'physical djihad' or 'the lesser djihad.' It is, however, very much more usual for the term djihad to denote this latter form of "effort"' (EI ii.538a). The notion of 'holy war' is fundamentally alien to Buddhist doctrine, but the Kalacakra's mythic eschatology is a product of indigenous Indian thought rather than a borrowing from Islam. The exoteric myth of the Buddhist Kalkins of Sambhala is clearly drawn from the Vaisnava tradition, and the internalized version of this myth is, I believe, a vision original to the author the Kalacakra tantra. It is nonetheless ironic that Buddhists adopted the idea of holy war from Hinduism in response to the religiously justified military aggression of Muslims.
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spread looting and destruction of major temples and pilgrimage centers in the name of Islam no doubt led some Indians to associate Islam with barbaric violence, iconoclasm, and religious persecution. The authors of the Kalacakra tantra responded to the new Islamic presence by investigating it and interpreting it in their own cultural and religious categories. We should first note the factuality with which the Kalacakra tantra depicts Islamic beliefs and practices. There is no discernible attempt to portray Muslims as monsters by falsifying or distorting their ideology and behavior. On the contrary, the texts even report that the barbarians are truthful, clean, honest, and chaste. Although the authors clearly found Islam to be exotic and evil, they appear to have faithfully recorded their observations of it. Indeed, it is quite remarkable that in terms of comprehensiveness, detail, and accuracy the Kalacakra's representation of Islam is superior to the sum total of pre-modern Muslim knowledge of Buddhism.35 This relatively complete and accurate portrayal of Islam in the Kalacakra tantra leads us to assume that its authors had fairly extensive direct contact with Muslims. The Kalacakra account of Islamic theology and Muslim refutations of Buddhist dogma even conjures up an image of a Buddhist-Muslim doctrinal discussion. However, the authors of the Kalacakra tantra were not ethnographers dispassionately studying an alien culture, they were Indian Vajrayana Buddhist mystics who perceived Islam to be a mortal threat to their own tradition. We can understand the mythology of the Kalacakra tantra as a classic example of a "crisis cult."36 Crisis cults form when religious traditions confronted with real crises respond by creating myth to interpret and cope with their predicaments. Apocalyptic eschatology and millenarian messianism are hallmarks of crisis cults. As we have seen, Islam appears in the Kalacakra tantra in Buddhist prophecies depicting the end of the current age of degeneration, the kaliyuga. In fact the tantra as a whole is a "yoga for the liberation of men at the time of the kaliyuga."!1 The idea that the kaliyuga is characterized by the advent of mleccha rulers and mleccha-dharma has a long history in brahmanical
35. For pre-modern Muslim treatments of Buddhism see SACHAU 1989:1, xlv-xlvii, 1.8 (11.253-54), 1.21 (11.261); GlMARET 1969; SMITH 1973; LAWRENCE 1976: 42-43, 100-14. 36. On crisis cults, see LA BARRE 1970. 37. SriKalacakra 1. Id: yogam irtkalacakre kaliyugasamaye muktihetor naranam.
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religious literature.38 The authors of the Kalacakra tantra appropriate this brahmanical mythic topos, make it Buddhist by placing it in the mouth of the Buddha, and use it to explain their contemporary situation: the Muslim invaders are naturally identified as the mlecchas of the kaliyuga, and Islam, of course, is the mleccha-dharma of this age of decadence. Also, the appearance of Islam is not understood in mere human terms; instead it is viewed as an apocalyptic irruption of evil, a demonic anti-religion that threatens to entirely eclipse the Buddha Dharma.39 In response to this threat the Kalacakra tantra prophesies an eschatology in which a Buddhist messiah will use magical means to purify the world of Islam, thereby instituting a new age of perfection. Furthermore, the Islamic incursion into India is not treated as a unique historical event. It is depicted as the current instance of a phase that repeats regularly in the never-ending cycle of time: at the end of every age men become barbarians, and the Buddhist messiah returns to free the world from barbarism (II.6). Thus the Kalacakra's representation of Islam can be viewed as an example of the tendency in classical Indian religions to represent historical events in mythic, trans-historical terms. In the introduction to his monumental al-Hind, al-Blrunl displays a scientific attitude toward the Indian Other:
This book is not a polemical one. I shall not produce the arguments of our antagonists in order to refute such of them as I believe to be wrong. My book is nothing but a simple historic record of facts (SACHAU 1989: 7, emphasis in the original).
Al-BIrum could relax in the knowledge that he belonged to the cultural elite of the strongest state in his region, and to a rapidly expanding religious tradition that had recently come to dominate much of the known world. The authors of the Kalacakra tantra - al-Blrunl's contemporaries - were of course on the other side of this epoch-making clash of civi38. Designating the social and religious practices of foreign invaders as mlecchadharma is an old trope drawn from the Mahdbharata and the Purdnas that is closely associated with the Vaisnava myth of the Kalki avatara (see, e.g., THAPAR 1971: 421). The Kalacakra tantra seems to be the earliest instance of the application of this concept to Islam. 39. The Kalacakra appears to be the earliest example of a tendency that continued throughout medieval times in India. See TALBOT 1995: 695-99, "The Muslim as Demonic Barbarian," especially p. 699: "... Muslims were demonized, that is, represented as being like the demons of ancient myth who engaged in endless battle against the forces of good."
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lizations; they perceived themselves as members of a culture under attack. This being so, it is not surprising that they take a less 'scientific' attitude toward the barbarians at the gate, and resort to the mythic demonization that provides a context for their account of Islam. In any case we must credit the authors of the Kalacakra tantra with a remarkable degree of prescience. Less than two hundred years after the revelation of the Kalacakra, Muslim Turks swept over the Gangetic plain and devastated the major centers of Buddhist learning, irrevocably altering the fate of Buddhism in the land of its birth.
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PART 2: TRANSLATIONS 1.1. [Vimalaprabhd 1.3. This passage is a portion of a lecture YaSas, the first Kalkin of Sambhala, delivered to Suryaratha, leader of the brahman sages of Sambhala. For a translation of the entire lecture see NEWMAN 1985: 59-63; 1987b: 304-14.] "[Suryaratha, you and the other brahman sages must be initiated into the Kalacakra, and eat, drink and form marriage relations with the vajra family (vajrakulam) of the Vajrayana.] Otherwise, after eight hundred years have elapsed your descendants will engage in the barbarian dharma and will teach the barbarian dharma in the ninety-six great lands of Sambhala and so forth. Using the mantra of the barbarian deity Bismillah,40 they will slit the throats of animals with cleavers. Then they will prescribe eating the flesh of those beasts killed with the mantra of their own deity, and will prohibit eating the flesh of those that die due to their own karma. That very dharma is authoritative for you [brahman sages] because of the statement in the smrti: 'Beasts are created for sacrifice' (Manusmrti 5.39a). With regard to killing there is no difference between the barbarian dharma and the Vedic dharma. "Therefore, your descendents will see the valor of those barbarians and the incarnation of their death deity (mdradevatdvatdram) in battle, and in the future, after eight hundred years have elapsed, they will become barbarians. Once they have become barbarians, everyone dwelling in the nine-hundred-and-sixty million villages [in Sambhala, etc.], the four castes and so forth, will also become barbarians. For the brahman sages say: 'Where the great man goes, that is the path' (Mahdbhdrata 3.297; appendix p. 1089,1. 68). "In the barbarian dharma as well as in the Vedic dharma one must kill for the sake of the deities and the ancestors, and the same is true in the dharma of the kshatriyas. For the brahman sages say: 'Having satisfied the ancestors and the gods, there is no fault in eating flesh' (Ydjnavalkyasmrti 1.5.178cd); and likewise: 'I see no fault in one who would
40. "In the name of Allah." VP (S) B: visavimla; VP (S) U: visavilva (MSS do not distinguish ba and va); VP (T): bi si mi lla\ annotation to VP (T): "Ma [i.e., rMa dGe ba'i bio gros's translation of the Vimalaprabhd] says, bi smin ra ma lha'/"; SvadarSanamatoddeia [section (III.l) below]: bi ii bi lla. Cf. HOFFMANN 1969: 62, 64-65; GRONBOLD 1992: 280, n. 26.
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do ill to a vicious [beast]' [quotation unidentified], "Thus, holding the Vedic dharma to be authoritative, they will adopt the barbarian dharma. For this reason, so that in the future you will not enter the barbarian dharma, I give you this precept. Therefore, you venerable sirs must obey my command [to take initiation into the Kalacakra]." 1.2. [$ri Kalacakra 1.26 and Vimalaprabha 1.9.26.] Now I will explain "from the first year" and so forth, with which the Tathagata prophesied the appearance of Manjus'rl in the land of Sambhala, the corruption of the astronomical siddhantas (jyotisasiddhantd) due to the appearance of the barbarian dharma, and the introduction of the laghukarana.
irTKdlacakra 1.26 Six hundred years from the first year, king Yasa will clearly appear in the [land] called 'Sambhala.' Naga [8] hundred years after that, the barbarian dharma will definitely appear in the land of Makka. At that time people on earth should know the clear laghukarana. The corruption of the siddhdntas on the entire surface of the earth will occur in the yoga of time.ll
Regarding, "Six hundred years from the first year, king YaSa will clearly appear in [the land] called 'Sambhala'": "The first" is the year the Tathagata taught the Dharma. Six hundred years from that year - "YaSa" is the reading in the text,41 i.e., the great Ya$as - MafrjurT, "will clearly appear" in the land named Sambhala north of the Slta River.42 This means "[MaftjuSrl] will take up an emanation body [and appear as king YaSas]." "Naga [8] hundred years after that," refers to [eight hundred years] after Yaas' nirvana. "Naga" i.e., in eight hundred years, "definitely," i.e., certainly, the barbarian dharma will appear in the land of Makka. The demonic dharma of the barbarian Tayin will appear in the land of Makka [- the land of the Muslims (sog y/)43 - ] endowed with ten
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million villages, south of the Slta [River]. At that time of the barbarians, people on the earth should know the clear laghukarana.44 Regarding, "the corruption of the siddhdntas": The Brahma, Sauram, Yamanakam [= Yavanal; gcer bu pa rnams], and Romakam (sgra gcan) are the siddhdntas.^ The corruption of these four is the corruption of the siddhdntas. Regarding, "on the entire earth-surface": 'Entire' refers to everywhere on the surface of the earth south of the Slta that the tirthika siddhdntas decline - there on the surface of the earth. It is not the case that the Buddhist siddhdnta in the lands of Sambhala and so forth will be corrupted. Regarding, "will occur in the yoga of time": The yoga of time is the barbarian dharma. The joining (yoga; sbyor ba) of that with the [tirthika] siddhdntas is the yoga of time - it will occur due to that yoga of time.46 Regarding, "in the yoga of time": [It should be in the ablative case, i.e., "due to," and the locative case, i.e., "in," is used. Thus,] the locative case is used for the ablative case.47 [Thus, the meaning is "due to the yoga of time."] 1.3 [SrT Kdlacakra 1.27a and Vimalaprabhd 1.9.27a. This passage establishes the astronomical epoch of the Kalacakra laghukarana. For a study
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sag po: la la na hin dhu les pa rgya gar pa yod I la la na mu sur man ies pa sag po yod (TUCCI 1940: 94); "In some places there are 'Hindus,' Indians. In some places there are 'Mussulmans,' sog po" (cf. Tucci's interpretation on p. 45). Here and elsewhere in Bu ston's annotations to VP (T) I believe the translation "Muslim" is called for. "Siddhdntas are comprehensive treatises deducing mean motions from the beginning of the Kalpa or the current Kaliyuga; karanas are more concise expositions of astronomy in which the mean longitudes for a time close to the date of composition are given, and the mean longitudes at later times are computed therefrom..." (PlNGREE 1981: 13-14). Vimalaprabha 1.9.86 [VP (S) U 1.118; VP (S) T 552], commenting on SrT Kdlacakra 1.86, repeats this list. For these siddhdntas see PlNGREE 1981: 11, 13-17,21-26. PlNGREE (1981:30; cf. p. 34) says: "The influence of Islamic Ptolemaic theory upon Indian astronomy can be traced back to Munjala in the tenth century..." The Kalacakra astronomy presents itself as a reaction against mleccha "corruption" of the tirthika siddhdntas (NEWMAN 1987b: 531-38). See NEWMAN 1988:130.
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of the Indian, Tibetan, and Western interpretations of this see NEWMAN 1998.] Now the laghukarana [of the tin Kdlacakra] is discussed: "Add ... to fire [3] sky [0] ocean [4]."*
Sri Kalacakra 1.27a Add the expired prabhava year to fire [3] sky [0] ocean [4] - this establishes the [expired] year of the barbarian.
The epoch {dhruvaka; nes pa) in the [$rT Kdlacakra] King of Tantra is transient because the epoch is reset at the end of the sexagenary cycle. The epoch in the karana - the era of [Kalkin] ManjuSrT [Yasas] - is six hundred years after the era of the Tathagata. The era of the barbarian is eight hundred years after that. The era of Kalkin Aja - the Aja who corrected the laghukarana - is one hundred and eighty-two years prior to that era of the barbarian. That very era [of Aja] is the epoch in the karana, [calculated] from the barbarian year. Regarding "the expired prabhava year": Prabhava is the beginning i.e., the first - of the sexagenary cycle that begins with prabhava. The year preceding the particular current year among these is the expired prabhava year. Adding [the numerical value of its position in the sexagenary cycle] to the quantity four hundred and three establishes the [expired] barbarian year. Having made one year the first, adding up to sixty years produces the expired prabhava year. That very [expired prabhava] year is established in all the other karanas, like Sunday and the other days of the week. Adding that to the quantity four hundred and three years establishes the [expired] barbarian year. The barbarian is Muhammad, the incarnation of ar-Rahman, the teacher of the barbarian dharma, the guru and leader of the barbarian Tayin (mleccho madhumati rahmandvatdro mlecchadharmadeiako mlecchdnam tayinam guruh
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1.4. [SrT Kalacakra 1.89dand Vimalaprabhd 1.9.89d.] [(SrT Kalacakra 1.89d:) At the end of the kaliyuga] a fierce war will occur on earth between the gods and the demons. [{Vimalaprabhd 1.9.89d:) At the end of the kaliyuga] a fierce war will occur on earth in the city of Baghdad (vagada) between the gods and the demons - the barbarians. 1.5. [SrT Kalacakra 1.154-155. For a translation and analysis of SrT Kalacakra 1.150-170 see NEWMAN 1987b: 578-654; for a translation and discussion of $rT Kalacakra 1.154-165 see NEWMAN 1995.]
$ri Kalacakra 1.154 Adam, Nuh, and Ibrahim [are the first three barbarian teachers]; there are also five others whose nature is tamas in the family of demonic snakes: Musa, 'Isa, the White-Clad One, Muhammad, and the Mahdl, who will be the eighth - he will belong to the darkness. The seventh will clearly be born in the city of Baghdad in the land of Makka, where the demonic incarnation - the mighty, merciless idol of the barbarians - lives in the world. II $rT Kalacakra 1.155 [The barbarians] kill camels, horses, and cattle, and briefly cook the flesh together with blood. They cook beef and amniotic fluid with butter and spice, rice mixed with vegetables, and forest fruit, all at once on the fire. Men eat that, 0 king, and drink bird eggs, in the place of the demon [barbarians]. 1 1
1.6. [SrT Kalacakra 2.98-99 and Vimalaprabha 2.5.98-99.] Now "Knowledge" etc., states the times knowledge (jnana\ ye $es) arises for Buddhists and demonic barbarians:
Sri Kalacakra 2.98 Knowledge arises for the Jinas in the sun, at daytime, at midnight [or] at daybreak. It arises for demons in the moon, at nightime, in the middle of the day [or] at the disappearance of the day. Those having correct and deceptive knowledge speak Sanskrit and Prakrit. Their actions in the three existences are peaceful and violent, heroic and vulgar.ll
Here, indeed, there are three types of yogic practice: Buddhist, demonic, and ghostly. With regard to that, Buddhist yoga consists of emptiness and compassion; demonic [barbarian yoga is] an imaginary dharma. Ghostly [tirthika yogic practice] is of two types: eternalist and annihilationist. Likewise, there are three types of yogi, in accordance with their different yogic practices. Among them, knowledge arises for Buddhist
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yogis in the daytime. Knowledge arises for demonic yogis in the nighttime, and for ghostly yogis in the time other than [those] four watches. With regard to the allotments of time: "Knowledge arises for the Jinas in the sun, at daytime, at midnight [or] at daybreak. It arises for demons in the moon, at nighttime, at midday [or] at the disappearance of the day." Since the ghosts are not mentioned [explicitly in the tantra, knowledge arises for them] in the time other than those watches. The empowerment of knowledge occurs for Buddhists at midnight or at daybreak. [Thus, the Buddha achieved buddhahood at dawn.] The empowerment of knowledge occurs for demons at midday or sundown. It occurs for ghosts in the other four watches: in daytime the empowerment of eternalist knowledge, in nighttime the empowerment of annihilationist knowledge. With regard to the Buddhists and demons, Buddhists have correct knowledge, and demons have deceptive [knowledge] which is contrary to that [Buddhist] Dharma. Correct knowledge, like day vision, sees everything. Deceptive knowledge, like night vision, sees only a bit of the lives and deaths of sentient beings. How does one know that? - from [the truth and falsehood] of their dharma teachings. With regard to, "Those having correct and deceptive knowledge speak Sanskrit and Prakrit'1: Those who have acquired correct knowledge speak Sanskrit, which consists of all utterances. Those who have acquired deceptive knowledge speak Prakrit because [their] teachers use the language of a single land.49 The knowledge of the Buddhists teaches peaceful karma - it consists of compassion for all sentient beings. The knowledge of the demons teaches violent karma - it harms animals for meat-eating. In the three existences the knowledge of the Buddhists teaches heroic karma. On earth the knowledge of the demons teaches vulgar karma. On earth [the knowledge] of the ghosts teaches mixed karma. This is the instruction that teaches knowledge. II98II Now "From midday" etc., states the mealtimes of the Buddhists and the demons:
49. Compare this passage with Pundarika's statement elsewhere in the Vimalaprabha that the Buddha uses the omniscient language (sarvajnabhasa) that consists of the utterances of all sentient beings, in contrast to the parochial (pradefika) Sanskrit language of the tirthikas, which is tied up with birth as a god (NEWMAN 1988: 129-30). I assume the 'Prakrit of the demon barbarians' refers to Arabic.
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SriKalacakra 2.99 From midday to midnight, at day and at night, are the times they eat. Their foods are cooked rice and beef; their drinks are flavorful mixtures and the fluid of eggs. Their clothes are red and white. Like the paths of the sun and the moon, their abodes are heaven and the underworld. Their dharmas are non-violent and violent. In accordance with the precepts of their gurus, their sitting postures are the adamantine and the demonic. II99II
Each day from midday [backwards] through to midnight is daytime. From midnight [backwards] until midday is nighttime. The mealtimes of Buddhist and barbarian ascetics are in those day- and nighttimes, in the latter half of their respective periods; for householders there is no precept. With regard to the food50 and drink of the Buddhists and demons: Buddhists eat superior cooked rice, and the barbarian diet includes beef. Buddhists drink delicious, flavorful mixtures, and the barbarians drink the fluid of the eggs of fowl and so forth. Buddhists wear red cloth, and the barbarians wear white; this applies to ascetics, for householders there is no precept. Likewise, after death their abodes are "like the paths of the sun and the moon" - the sun ascends and the moon descends. Like their paths, heaven, the path of the sun, is for the Buddhists, and the underworld like the path of the moon - is for the demons. Likewise, the Bhagavan [Buddha] said in the Sekoddeia of the basic tantra:
When all living beings die, the moon-nectar goes below, the sun-menses goes above, and Rahu-consciousness takes on the characteristic ofrebirth.il {Sekoddeto 86)51
Likewise, their dharmas are as follows: the dharma of the Buddhists is non-violent, that of the barbarians is violent. The word "and" [in the tantra indicates that the dharma] of the ghosts [is violent also]. In accordance with the precepts of their gurus, when they meditate and when they praise their chosen deities the adamantine sitting posture is commended for Buddhists and the demonic sitting posture is commended for barbarians. The word "and" [in the tantra] indicates that at other [times they are] equal, neither prescribed nor prohibited. Here is
50. khdnam; bza' ba. See also Vimalaprabha 1.3 (VP (S) U 1.27.13): khdnapdnam. I am grateful to Richard SALOMON for drawing my attention to this word, which is standard in Hindi but unusual in Sanskrit. 51. This verse alludes to the tantric doctrine that at death a person's natal semen and blood - the zygote obtained from one's father and mother - separates, with the semen exiting through the genitals and the blood exiting through the nose.
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the demonic sitting posture: On the ground extend the left knee; on top of the left foot is the right foot. The word "and" [in the tantra) indicates that underneath [oneself] the right foot is on top of the sole of the left foot. The word "and" also indicates one is sitting back on one's buttocks. The adamantine sitting posture, etc., will be explained later [in the tantra\ see (1.12) below]. This is the instruction on the practices of the Buddhists and the demons. II99II 1.7. [Sri Kdlacakra 2.158cd and Vimalaprabhd 2.7.158cd. For previous study of this passage see NEWMAN 1987b: 606-7; GRONBOLD 1992: 277-78, 284.] Now "The Creator" and so forth states the beliefs of the barbarian Tayin.
SriKdlacakra 2.158cd The Creator creates all mobile and immobile things for the enjoyment of the Tayin. Men certainly attain heaven by satisfying him. That is the doctrine of arRahman. II
The Creator ar-Rahman creates all mobile - animate, and immobile inanimate, things for the enjoyment of the "Tayin" - the white-clad barbarians. Men certainly attain heaven by satisfying ar-Rahman; they attain hell by not satisfying him. That is the doctrine of ar-Rahman; [the barbarian] practices were stated above [in Sri Kdlacakra 2.98-99; see (1.6)]. This is the instruction on the beliefs of the Tayin. 1.8. [Vimalaprabhd 2.7.160b, comment on Sri Kdlacakra 2.160b. See GRONBOLD 1992: 275-76, 286.] Furthermore, the [brahmanical] scriptures claim: "When the Veda is nonexistent, when the barbarians have eradicated the Vedic dharma, then [Sri Kdlacakra 2.160b:] 'Brahma, with his four mouths, will proclaim the meaning with the ancient word of the Veda,' by reciting 'Indra became a beast,' etc." Thus it is proven that the meaning is different than the Veda. 1.9. [Vimalaprabhd 2.7.161, comment on Sri Kdlacakra 2.161.] Furthermore, [the brahmans] claim it is true that brahmans are born from the mouth of Brahma. Thus I ask, "Are female brahmans also born from that?" If so, then they are [the brahmans'] sisters because they originate from the same womb. The same is true for the kshatriyas and so forth. How could one marry one's sister? If one did one would adopt
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the barbarian dharma. By adopting the barbarian dharma one's race is degraded. By degrading one's race one goes to hell. That is the [brahmanical] law. 1.10 [Sri Kalacakra 2.168 and Vimalaprabha 2.7.168.] Now, "A living being," etc., states a [Tayin] refutation [of the doctrine that one] experiences [the results of] previous karma [in the present life] and accumulates present karma [for the future]:
Sri Kalacakra 2.168 [Buddhists claim:] A living being experiences previously created karmas [in the present life], and [the karmas created] in the present in another life. [The Tayin reply:] If this were so, men could not destroy karma because of [their] repeated other lives. There would be no exit from samsara, and no entrance to liberation, because of limitless existences.The rejection of other lives is indeed the belief of the Tayin.
[The Tayin] believe [the Buddhist doctrine that] a living being experiences previously created karmas [in this life], and [the karmas] created in this life in another life [is false]. If such were the case, [they say,] men could not destroy karma because they would experience the results of karma in repeated other lives. Thus there would be no exit from samsara, and no entrance to liberation, because of limitless existences. That is indeed the belief of the Tayin. However, [the tantra] says, "the rejection of other lives." The barbarian Tayin believe that a dead man experiences happiness or suffering in heaven or hell with that human body in accordance with ar-Rahman's law. Thus, the rejection of other lives is [their] precept. II16811 1.11. [Vimalaprabha 3.1.3. This verse is part of a discussion that asserts the superiority of monk vajrdcdryas over house-holder vajrdcdryas.] Just as sinners get angry when they see a red-clad [monk], Buddhists fond of white-clad [lay vajrdcdryas] are enamored of the barbarian dharma. 1 1 1.12. [Vimalaprabha 3.1.19c; comment on Sri Kalacakra 3.19c. This passage appears in a section describing the postures used when performing the eight magical rites.] "Demon" refers to the demonic sitting posture. For [the magical rite of] killing [one sits in] the demonic sitting posture, [with limbs drawn in] like the retracted legs of a tortoise.
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1.13. [$rl Kalacakra 3.94ab and Vimalaprabha 3.4.94ab; see also Paramarthasamgraha p. 16; GNOLI and OROFINO 1994: 172.] [An initiate of the Kalacakra tantra] may not follow ... the dharma of the lord of the demons. [An initiate of the Kalacakra tantra] may not follow the demonic dharma, i.e., the barbarian dharma. 1.14. [Vimalaprabha 5.3 (comment on SrT Kalacakra 5.58).] From beginningless time sentient beings have been tirthikas, fond of the dharmas of the gods, ghosts, and demons, deprived of the path of the Omniscient [Buddha], observing [the brahmanical law of] four castes or [the Muslim law of] one caste, craving enjoyment of a heavenly reward, proponents of a Creator and a Self. Among them, the proponents of [Vedic] scriptural authority observe the dharma of the gods and the manes; they are proponents of a God, a Self, and casteism. The barbarians observe the demonic dharma; they are proponents of a Creator, a soul, and are free of casteism. The barbarians have two dogmas: the dogma of [the body being] an aggregation of particles, and the dogma of an epiphenomenal person. They believe: "If there is no epiphenomenal person (upapattyangika-pudgala) dwelling within the physical body that is composed of an aggregation of particles, then who takes up another body when the body consisting of an aggregation of particles is destroyed? Thus, there is a spontaneously generated person (upapdduka-pudgala). That proves that the heavenly reward is the reward of nirvana - there is no so-called 'nirvana' other than the heavenly reward." When [the barbarians] ask about reality, the Bhagavan [Buddha] who knows reality, knowing their own beliefs, says [in the Bharahara-sutra): "There is a person who bears the burden; I do not say it is permanent, I do not say it is impermanent."52 That is indeed true, because it is the statement of the Bhagavan; one is unable to say that the person [who is a product of] mental propensities in the dream state is impermanent or permanent. Due to this statement of the Tathagata, [the barbarians] abandon the barbarian dharma and become Buddhist Vaibhasikas.
52. This quotation is cited in Prakrit; likewise at VP (S) U 1.266.9-10; in Sanskrit at VP (S) U 1.54.3-4, trans. NEWMAN 1987: 422. Bu ston's annotation identifies it as coming from the Bh&rah&ra-sutra (Khur khur ba'i mdo), on which see PRUDEN 1991: 1367, n.71.
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Furthermore, some hear the transcendental Dharma being taught to the bodhisattvas, abandon the dogma of a person, and resort to the path of the true, perfect Buddha. 1.15. [Vimalaprabhd 5.3.] At the termination of the age [Kalkin Cakrin] will see the absolute antireligion of the barbarians. He will become as still as a mountain. With the meditative concentration of the supreme horse he will radiate numberless supreme horses that will dismay the barbarians, thus establishing them in his own Dharma. He will eradicate their dharma, not kill them. 11.1. [ri-Kdlacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-ndma.] ... the Tayin who vow to eat flesh... 11.2. [$ri-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama.] ... furthermore, Muhammad (*madhumatv, ma dhu ma ti), the lord of the goblins (*raksasendra\ srinpo'i dbaiipo), will appear. 11.3. [$ri-Kdlacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-ndma.] ... also, in Makka one's own son takes one's brother's daughter [in marriage]. 11.4. [Srl-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama.] The cavalry of the Tayin, engaged in war, will entirely destroy shrines {*devdlaya\ lha rten) that display buddhas, bhairavas, men, women, and snakes. They belong to a single caste, and do not take [each] other's property; they speak the truth and practice hygiene. Their youths avoid others' wives, and upholding the precepts of asceticism, they resort to their own wives. On earth and in heaven the lord of darkness (*tamasvindra\ mun can dban po) only protects those Tayin and tirthikas who, having washed, prostrate to the worshipped Rahu (*istardhu; 'dodpa'i sgra gcan) five times each day at noon, afternoon, evening, night, and sunrise. In fierce battles [he] protects [them] like a father [protecting his] sons and servants. Since the kshatriyas will not fight, [the Tayin] king, having worshipped the terrifying [deity] with the flesh of birds and beasts, will cut off [the kshatriya] lineages by harming various sentient beings and pillaging others' wealth.
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11.5. [SrT-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama.] 0 Surya,53 in the future when the seed of Brahman [- *brahmabijam; tshahs pa'i sa bon\ i.e., the syllable OM representing the Veda, or else the brahman race -] is about to be destroyed, if one worships the earthprotector [Kalkin Raudra Cakrin] the barbarians and tirthikas will be destroyed in battle. 11.6. [^rl-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama.] In the future the descendents, relatives, and men of the lord of the barbarians Muhammad (*madhumati; ma dhu ma ti) will destroy sixty-eight temples of the sacred sites (*sthanam; gnas) and pilgrimage places {*ksetram\ zifi) on earth. In eighteen hundred [?] years, in Makka (*makha; ma kha), etc., [and in India,] the land of the Aryans, I [Kalkin YaSas, having reincarnated as Kalkin Raudra Cakrin,] will annihilate the barbarians and the god of darkness (*tamasvin; mun can) whom they imagine to be the sun. 0 Surya, I will place living beings in happiness by establishing them in [the Dharma] through the rite of the three refuges in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Then I will go from Kalapa [in Sambhala] to Tusita, the supreme abode of the gods. When XXXXXXX54 years have elapsed, men will again become barbarians for eighteen hundred [?] years. Again and again I will appear in that kaliyuga to destroy them. 11.7. [ri-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama.] 1 have taught about... the Tayin... III.l. [Svadarfanamatoddesa] ... the thing to be held and the holder, the thing to be killed and the killer, for the mantra of Bismillah (*visavilla', hi & bi lla), Visnu and Bhairava protect.
53. The Tantrahrdaya, like the Sri Kalacakra, is buddhavacanam, but it was redacted by YaSas, the first Kalkin of Sambhala. In this passage Yas'as addresses Suryaratha, leader of the brahman sages of Sambhala. 54. nam mkha' mkha' dan dus dan dban po mig gis dus kyi dus. I am unable to decipher this number. Tibetan dus could stand for Sanskrit kala (3), yuga (4), or rtu (6); see ^K (S) B, p. 267, appendix 1.
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III.2. [Svadarsanamatoddesa] North of the [Himalaya] snow mountains the kings in Tibet and so forth eat cattle. To the west [of India] the barbarian kings kill cattle and birds (*dvija\ gnis skyes) as well. IV.l. [Sri-Paramarthaseva] (1) If you assert (*kila; grags pa na) that brahmans are born from the mouth of Brahma, then are female brahmans also born from that very place? If both are born from the same womb, then it is unlawful for [such] brothers and sisters to marry. (2) If they do, they become barbarian people. If they become barbarians, it degrades their caste. If they destroy their caste, [they experience] fierce suffering in hell. This obtains for those [brahmans] because they are attached to their own caste. IV.2. [Sri-Paramarthaseva] (1) Others, for happiness in heaven, cut the skin from the tips of their own penises. The Tayin must eat at the end of the day and during the night. (2) They do not consume the flesh of animals that die due to their own karma. Having killed [animals], they eat them; [they believe that] if men do otherwise they do not go to heaven. PART 3: SANSKRIT TEXTS AND TIBETAN TRANSLATIONS I. Sri Kalacakra and Vimalaprabhd. [VP (S) B is a superb manuscript copied early in the 12th century CE, about a century after the composition of the Vimalaprabhd - it is the earliest extant witness for this text. Because the early Kalacakra literature self-consciously employs irregular grammar and spelling (see NEWMAN 1988), I reproduce VP (S) B's orthography and sandhi except for missing avagrahas and irregular doubling of consonants; I have supplied most of the dandas.] 1.1. Vimalaprabhd 1.3 [VP (S) B 10b3-6; U 1.27.15-28.3] anyatha astaSate varse gate1 sati yusmatputrapautradayo mlecchadharme pravrttim krtva sambhaladisannavatimahavisayesu mlecchadharmadeSanam karisyanti I mlecchadevatavisavimlamantrena2 kartrikaya grivayam paSum hatva tatas tesam svadevatamantrenahatanam paSunam mamsam
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bhaksayisyanti svakarmana mrtanam mamsam abhaksyam3 karisyanti I so 'pi dharmo yusmakam pramanam yagarthe4 pagavah srsta iti smrtivacanat mlecchadharmavedadharmayor viSeso nasti pranatipatatah I tasmat yusmatkule putrapautradayas tesam mlecchanam pratapam drstva samgrame maradevatavataraft ca5 anagate 'dhvany astavarsasate gate sati mleccha bhavisyanti I tesu mlecchesu jatesu satsu sannavatikotigramanivasino 'pi caturvarnadayah sarve mleccha bhavisyanti mahajano yena gatah sa pantha iti brahmarsivacanat I iha mlecchadharme vedadharme 'pi devatapitrartham pranatipatah kartavyah ksatradharme 'pi ca tarpayitva pitrn devan khadan mamsam na dosabhag iti brahmarsivacanat61 tatha dosan tatra na7 pagyami yo duste dustam acared iti I evam vedadharmam pramanlkrtya mlecchadharmaparigraham karisyanti I tena karanenanagate 'dhvani mlecchadharmaprave^aya yusmadbhyo may a niyamo dattah I tasmad bhavadbhir mamajna kartavyeti I
v.l.: 1) U: varsagate. 2) U: -visavilva-. 3) U: abhaksam. 4) U: yagarthah. 5) U: -avataram va. 6) U: brahmana-. 7) B: omit na.
VP (T) 1.356.5-357.5 [This is Bu ston Rin chen grub's (1290-1364) revised and annotated edition of Son ston rDo rje rgyal mtshan's translation, the translation that appears in the bsTan 'gyur.} I rnam pa gan du na lo brgyad brgya 'das pa'i rjes la khyed kyi bu dan tsha bo la sogs pas kla klo'i chos dar bar byas nas Sambha la sogs pa'i yul chen po dgu bcu rtsa drug tu kla klo'i chos ston par byed par 'gyur ro I kla klo'i lha [ma I bi smin ra ma lha'i zer] bi si mi 11a'i snags kyis I phyugs kyi ske gri gug gis bead de I de nas {add: ran gi) lha'i snags kyis bsad pa'i phyugs de rnams kyi s*a za bar byed cin ran gi las kyis & ba rnams kyi a za bar mi byed par 'gyur ro I chos de yan khyed rnams la I tshad ma ste I mchod sbyin don du phyugs dag [bsad pa] spros I ses pa'i I gzuh gi tshig las so I kla klo'i chos dan rig byed kyi chos dag la yari I khyad par med de I srog gcod par byed pa'i phyir ro I de'i phyir khyed I kyi rigs kyi bu dan tsha bo la sogs pa rnams kyis kla klo de dag gi gzi byin dan g.yul du bdud kyi lha 'jug pa yari mthori nas ma 'oris pa'i dus lo brgyad brgya 'das pa na kla klor 'gyur ro I de dag kla klor gyur pa na I grori bye ba phrag dgu bcu rtsa drug na gnas pa'i rigs bi la sogs pa thams cad kyari kla klor 'gyur te I skye bo chen po gari nas bgrod pa de ni lam mo zes tsharis pa'i drari srori gis smras ba'i phyir ro I 'dir kla I klo'i chos dan rig byed kyi chos la yari lha dari pha mes kyi don du srog gcod par bya ba yin la I rgyal rigs kyi chos la yari no I lha dari pha mes I
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tshim byas na (read: byas nas) I a zos skyon gyi cha yod min I zes pa I I dan I de bzin du I gah fig gdug la gdug spyod pa I de la skyon ni ma I mthori no I zes bram zes smras ba'i phyir ro I de ltar rigs byed (read: I I rig byed) kyi chos chad mar (read: tshad mar) byas nas kla klo'i chos yoris su 'dzin par 'gyur te I rgyu des na ma 'ons pa na kla klo'i chos mi 'jug par bya ba'i phyir khyed rnams la bdag gis nes pa by in no I de bas I khyed rnams kyis bdag gi bka' biin bya'o zes so I 1.2. SrTKalacakra 1.26 and Vimalaprabha 1.9.26 [VP (S) B 31a7-31b3; U 1.77.1-19] idanlm sambhalavisaye manjusnya utpadaya1 mlecchadharmotpadat jyotisasiddhantavina^alaghukaranapravrttitathagatavyakaranam adyabdadityadina vitanomiti I
SriKalacakra 1.26 adyabdat satsatabdaih prakata yaganrpah sambhalakhye bhavisyat tasman nagaih satabdaih khalu makhavisaye mlecchadharmapravrttih I tasmin kale dharanyam sphutalaghukaranam manavair veditavyam siddhantanam vina^ah sakalabhuvitale kalayoge bhavisyat2 II26II
adyabdat satSatabdaih prakata yaSanrpah sambhalakhye bhavisyad iti I adyeti dharmades'anavarsam tathagatasya I tasmad varsat satSatabdaih sTtanadyuttare sambhalanamni visaye yaa ity agamapathah mahayasV manjus'rih prakato bhavisyad iti4 nirmanakayagrahanam karisyatlty arthah I tasman nagaih Satabdair iti tasmad yaSaso nirvrtat I nagair ity astavarsas'ataih khalv iti ni&itam makhavisaye mlecchadharmapravrttir bhavisyati I sltaya5 daksine makhavisaye kotigramavibhusite mlecchanan tayinam asuradharmapravrttir bhavisyati I tasmin mlecchakale dharanyam sphutalaghukaranam manavair veditavyam I siddhantanam vinasa iti siddhantam brahma sauram yamanakam romakam iti I esam caturnam vinasah6 siddhantanam vinaSah I sakalabhuvitale iti sakala iti yatra tlrthikasiddhanta nivartante7 tatra sakalam bhuvitalam Sltadaksinam tasmin bhuvitale I na sambhaladivisayesu bauddhasiddhantasya vinasa iti I kalayoge bhavisyad iti kalayogo8 mlecchadharmah tena siddhantanam yogah kalayogah tasmat kalayogad bhavisyat9 I kalayoga iti pancamyarthe saptami I
v.l.: 1) U: utpadanam. 2) U: 'bhavisyat. 3) U: mahayasa. 4) U: bhavisyati. 5) U: SIta-. 6) U: vinasam. 7) U: varttante. 8) U: kalah. 9) U: bhavisyati.
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VP(T) 1.477.1-478.3 II [gnas pa bcu gsum pa] da ni lo Mi nas ni zes pa la sogs pas sambha la'i yul du 'jam dpal 'byuri ba dan I kla klo'i chos byuh nas [mu stegs kyi] skar rtsis kyis (read: kyi) grub pa'i mtha' rnam par flams pa dan nun riu'i byed pa rab tu 'jug par de bi'm gSegs pas luri bstan pa bdag gis dgrol bar bya'o I
($K(T) 1.9.4-5:) I lo 'di nas ni drug brgya'i lo yis gsal bar mi bdag grags pa sambha la zes bya bar 'byun I I de nas klu yi lo brgya rnams kyis nes par ma kha'i yul du kla klo'i chos dag rab tu 'jug I I de yi dus su 'dzin ma la ni nun ftu'i byed pa gsal bar mi rnams dag gis rig par bya I I mtha' dag sa gi la ni grub pa'i mtha* rnams rnam parfiamspa dus kyi sbyor ba la 'byun 'gyur II 26
I lo 'di nas ni drug brgya'i lo yis gsal bar mi bdag grags pa Sambha la zes bya bar 'byun I zes pa la I lo 'di zes pa ni I de bfin gSegs pas [dus kyi 'khor lo'i] chos bstan pa'i lo ste I lo de nas lo drug brgya na chu bo sT ta'i byaft sambha la zes bya ba'i yul du grags pa [ya a zes pa rnam dbye med par byas pa] tes pa ni I luh gi brjod pa ste [sdeb sbyor gyi dbari yin gyi don la ya Sah 'o II ] I 'jam dpal grags pa chen po gsal bar 'byun zes pa I sprul pa'i sku 'dzin par mdzad par 'gyur es pa'i don to II de nas klu'i lo brgya rnams kyis Ses pa ni I grags pa[s lo brgya chos bstan pa'i rjes la] my a nan las 'das pa de nas I klu zes pa lo brgyad brgya na I lies par zes pa ni gdon mi za bar I ma kha'i yul du kla klo'i chos dag rab tu 'jug par 'gyur te I chu bo sT ta'i lho phyogs [sog yul] ma kha'i yul grori bye bas rnam par brgyan par I kla klo stag gzig rnams kyi lha ma yin gyi chos rab tu 'jug par 'gyur ro II kla klo de'i dus su 'dzin ma la ni [mu stegs pa'i] nun hu'i byed pa gsal bar mi rnams dag gis rig par bya'o II grub pa'i mtha' rnams rnam par nams pa fes pa ni I tsharis pa danflima dan gcer bu pa rnams dan sgra gcan gi grub pa'i mtha' ste I 'di bzi rnam par nams pa ni I grub pa'i mtha' rnams rnam par nams pa'o II mtha' dag sa gii la ni fes pa la I mtha' dag ni I gari du mu stegs pa'i grub pa'i mtha' zugs pa de mtha' dag go I sa gi ni chu bo ii ta'i lho ste I sa gzi der ro I s'ambha la sogs pa'i yul rnams su saris rgyas pa'i grub pa'i mtha' rnam par nams pa ni ma yin no II dus kyi sbyor ba la 'byuri 'gyur fes pa la I dus kyi sbyor ba ni I kla klo'i chos te I de yis [mu stegs kyi] grub pa'i mtha' rnams la sbyor ba ni dus kyi sbyor ba las 'byuri bar 'gyur ro II dus kyi sbyor ba la fes pa ni I [las fes lria pa dgos pa la I la fes bdun pa byas pas na I] lria pa'i don la bdun pa'o I
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iha dhruvako 'nityas tantraraje sastisamvatsarante punar dhruvaracanad1 iti I iha tathagatakalat sadvarsasatair manjus'rikalah karane dhruvah I tasmad astaSatavarsaih mlecchakalah I tasmat mlecchakalat dvyasltyadhikasatena hlno 'jakalklkalo yenajena laghukaranam visodhitam I sa eva kalah karane dhruvakam bhavati mlecchavarsad iti I prabhavamukhagatam iti prabhavo mukham adir yesam sastisamvatsaranam te prabhavamukhah I tesu pratyekavartamanavarsasya purvavarsam prabhavamukhagatam iti I tan miSrarn tryadhikacatuh^atara^au2 mlecchavarsam prasiddham bhavati I ekavarsam adim krtva yavat sastivarsam tavad vimisram prabhavamukhagatam bhavatlti I tad eva varsam sarvakaranantare prasiddham bhavaty3 adityadivaravat I tena misYam4 tryadhikacatuh^atavarsara^au iti mlecchavarsam prasiddham I mleccho madhumatl rahmanavataro mlecchadharmadesako mlecchanam tayinam guruh svamT I
v.J.: 1) U: dhruvakaranad. 2) U: -^atavarsam ra^au. 3) U: bhavatlty. 4) U: vimiSritam.
me mkha' rgya mtsho rnams ses pa'o II rgyud kyi rgyal po 'di la nes pa ni I mi rtag pa ste I lo drug cu'i mthar slar yan lies pa 'god pa'i phyir ro II 'dir byed pa la lies pa ni I de blin gSegs pa'i dus [mya nan las 'das nas zes pa la sogs pa I] nas lo drug brgya na 'jam dpal gyi dus so II de nas lo brgyad brgya na kla klo'i dus so II kla klo'i dus [nas bzuii ba'i lo'i tshogs] de las brgyad cu rtsa gnis lhag pa'i brgya yis dman pa ni I rgyal dka' gaii gis nun liu'i byed pa['i don du] rnam par sbyon ba'i rigs ldan rgyal dka'i dus (nas bzuri ba'i lo'i tshogs byed pas] so II dus de fiid ni I byed pa la nes par 'gyur te I [gan la sbyor na] kla klo'i lo las so I (N.B.: Here Bu ston annotates VP (T) with six verses quoted from the LaghutantratTkd that list the years of the sexagenary cycle; see NEWMAN
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1998: 344-45.) I rab byuri la sogs 'das pa zes pa ni I lo drug cu po gari dag gi dan po rab byuri yin pa de dag ni rab byun la sogs te I de dag las so sor da ltar ba'i lo'i sria ma'i lo ni rab byun la sogs 'das pa'o II de dag gsum lhag pa'i bzi brgya'i phuri po la bsres pa ni I kla klo'i [mgo zug tshun chad kyi] lor rab tu grub par 'gyur ro II lo gcig dan por by as nas lo drug cu ji sned pa de nid ni I rab byun la sogs 'das pa rnams bsres su 'gyur ro II [rab byuri gi] lo de nid ni I byed pa gfan thams cad la [lo rnams kyi dari por] rab tu grags pa yin te I gza' fli ma [res gza' bdun gyi dari por grags pa I] bzin no II gsum lhag pa'i bzi brgya'i lo yis phuri po la de yis bsres pa ni I kla klo'i lor rab tu grub ste I kla klo ni I sbrari rtsi'i bio gros te I rahma na'i 'jug pa kla klo'i chos ston pa po kla klo stag gzig mams kyi bla ma dari rje bo'o I 1.4. SrTKalacakra 1.89d and Vimalaprabha 1.9.89d [SK (S) B 23.4; VP (S) U 1.119.23] devanarn danavanam ksititalanilaye raudrayuddham bhavisyat1 II v.l.: 1)VP(S)U: bhavisyati. [VP (S) B 46a2; U 1.119.28-120.2] devanarn danavanam mlecchanam ksititalanilaye vagadayam nagaryam raudrayuddham bhavisyati I $K(T) 1.24.7-1.25.1
I lha rnams dag dan lha min rnams kyi 'khrug pa drag po sa gii'i gnas rnams su ni 'byun bar'gyur 1
VP(T) 1.554.4-5 [rtsod ldan gyi mjug] de'i dus su lha rnams dag dari lha min kla klo rnams kyi 'khrug pa drag po sa gzTi gnas ba ga da rnams su ni 'byuri bar 'gyur te I 1.5. Sri Kalacakra 1.154-155 [Note: I follow VP (S) U in numbering these verses; some MSS and the Tibetan translation given below omit verse 90 of this patala, and thus number these verses as 153-154. My edition of these verses is based on the MS readings given in HOFFMANN 1969: 56-66; VP (S) U 1.153.15-22; SK (S) V 338-39; $K (S) B 39.18; $K (S) T 19a6-19b3; NEWMAN 1987a: 594-616]
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ardo nogho varahl danubhujagakule tamasanye 'pi parica museSau Svetavastrl madhupati mathani yo 'stamah so 'ndhakah syat I sarnbhutih saptamasya sphuta makhavisaye vagadadau nagaryam yasyarn loke 'suramST nivasati balavan nirdayo mlecchamurtih II15411 ustra<>vau gag ca hatva sarudhirapis'itam Suddhapakvam hi kincit gomamsam sutatoyam ghrtakatukasamam tandulam gakamisram I ekasmin vahnipakvam vanaphalasahitam yatra bhojyam naranam panam candam khaganam bhavati narapate tatpadam casuranam II15511
VP (T) 1.40.7-41.6 [Without annotations; for discussion of this and other Tibetan translations of these verses see NEWMAN 1987b: 594-616]
I a dra a no gha dari phag ldan lha min lag 'gro'i rigs la mun pa can ni gian yari lna I I byi ba dban po gos dkar can dan sbrari rtsi'i bio gros 'joms byed brgyad pa gari de mun pa can I I gsal bar ma kha'i yul gyi ba ga da sogs groh khyer du ni bdun pa yari dag skyes pa ste I I gari du 'jig rten lha min yan lag stobs dari ldan par gnas giri brtse ba med pa kla klo'i gzugs 1153 I rria mo rta dari ba Ian bsad nas khrag dari bcas pa'i s'a ni churi zad btsos pa 'ba' zig dari I I ba lari s'a dari driul chu chu dari mar dari tsha ba mnam pa 'bras dari lo ma bsres pani I I gcig tu me la btsos pa nags kyi 'bras bu dag dari bcas pa gari du mi rnams dag gi zasl I bturi ba bya rnams dag gi sgo riar 'gyur ro mi yi bdag po de ni lha min rnams kyi gnas( 154
1.6. n Kalacakra 2.98-99 and Vimalaprabhd 2.5.98-99 [VP (S) B 78b5-79a6; U 1.222.10-223.24] idanlrn bauddhanam asuranarn mlecchanam jnanotpattikala ucyate jfiana ityadina
$n Kalacakra 2.98 jfianotpattir jinanam ravidinasamaye cardharatre niSante madhyahne casuranam S'a^ini^isamaye nirgame vasarasya' samyagjnane vibharige prabhavati vacanam samskrtarn prakrtam ca bantam raudram ca karma tribhuvananilaye paurusam prakrtam ca II98 II
iha khalu trividho yogabhyasah bauddha asuro bhauta^ ca I tatra bauddho yogah ^unyatakarunatmakah asurah kalpanadharmah bhautiko dvihprakarah ^asvatarupa ucchedarupa^ ca I evam trividho yogi sa eva vidyate yasya tadyogabhyasabalatvad2 iti I tesu divabhage bauddhayoginarp jfianotpattih ratribhage asurayoginam3 catuhsandhyarahitakale4 bhautayogi-
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nam jfianotpattir iti I atra kalavibhagah jfianotpattir jinanam ravidinasamaye cardharatre niSante madhyahne casuranam SaSiniSisamaye nirgame vasarasya11 bhautanam anuktatvad api sandhyarahitakale I atrardharatre purvasandhyayam va jfianadhisthanam5 bhavati bauddhanam I asuranam madhyahnasamdhyayam astangatasandhyayam6 va jfianadhisthanam5 bhavati I bhutanam aparacatuhpraharasandhyayam divabhage saSvatajnanadhisthanam ratribhage ucchedajnanadhisthanam I anayor bauddhasurayor yathasamkhyam samyakjnanam bauddhanam bhavati vibhangam taddharmavirodhi bhavaty asuranam I samyakjnanam divalokavat sarvadarSi I vibhangam jnanam ratryalokavat kincit sattvanam jlvanamaranadarsiti71 katham jfiayata ity8 aha dharmadesanaya9 iti I iha samyagjnane vibharige prabhavati vacanam samskrtam prakrtan ceti I samyagjnanotpannanam samskrtam vakyam sarvarutatmakam iti I vibhangajfianotpannanam prakrtam vakyam bhavati deSakanam ekavisayabhasantareneti I Santakarmadegakam10 bauddhanam jfianam sarvasattvakarunatmakam I raudrakarmadeSakam1' asuranam jfianam tiryaksattvapakari mamsabhaksanayeti I tribhuvananilaye paurusam karma bauddhanam jnanam deSayati I ksitau prakrtam karma asuranam jnanam deSayati I bhutanam vimisram karma desayati prthivyam I iti jfianades'ananiyamah I 98 I I I idanlm bauddhasurayor bhuktikala ucyate madhyahnad ityadina I
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madhyahnad ardharatram dinanisamaye bhuktikalas tayo$ ca annam gomamsabhojyam bahuvidharasadam panam andasya Sukram I raktam ivetam ca vastram ravis"aigativat svargapatalavSsah dharmo 'himsa ca himsa guruniyamavasad vajradaityasanam ca II99II
iha pratidine madhyahnad12 arabhyardharatram yavat dinasamayah131 ardharatrad arabhya madhyahnaparyantam ni&samayah I tasmin dinaniSisamaye svasvasamayasya parardhe bhuktikalah tayor bauddhamlecchayor yathasamkhyam tapasvinam grhasthanam iti na'4 niyamah I bauddhasurayoh punah khanam panam'5 yathasamkhyam annam vis'istataram bauddhanam gomamsasahitam mlecchanam I panam yathasamkhyam bahuvidharasadam mistam bauddhanam kukkutadlnam andasya sukram panam'6 mlecchanam"iti I paridhanam yathasamkhyam raktavastram bauddhanam Svetam mlecchanam tapasvinam grhasthanam na niyamah'? I tatha maranante avaso yathasamkhyam raviSaftgativad iti raver urdhvagatih'8 candrasyadhogatih I tayor gativat svargavaso ravigatir bauddhanam'patalavaso 'suranam candragativad iti I tatha* mulatantre sekoddeSe bhagavan aha I
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adhas candramrtam yati marane sarvadehinam I urdhve suryarajo20 rahuvijfianam bhavalaksane II (Sekoddeia 86)
tatha dharmo yathasamkhyam bauddhanam dharmo 'hinsa mlecchanam hinsa cakarat bhutanam I guruniyamavasad21 bhavanakale istadevatastutikale yathasamkhyam bauddhanam vajrasanam prasastam22 mlecchanam daityasanarn prasastam cakarad aparam samanyam iti tasya na viddhir23 na nisedha iti I atra daityasanarn24 bhutale25 vamajanuprasarah26 vamapadordhvam27 daksinapadah281 cakarad adhah daksinapada urdhvavamapadatale29 'pi I cakarat prsthe katinisanno 'pi iti30 vajrasanadikan ca3' vaksyamane vaktavyam iti bauddhasurakriyaniyamah I 99 I I I
v.].: 1) U: vasavasya. 2) U: -ratatvad; Tib.: dga' ba las. 3) U: asura-. 4) U: -rahite kale. 5) U & B [emendation]: vagjnanadhistanam; I follow Tib., which I believe reflects B's original reading. 6) U: astarigata-. 7) U: jTva-. 8) U: ity ata. 9) U: -de;>anaya. 10) B: Santam karma-. 11) B: raudram karma-. 12) U: madhyanad. 13) U: -samayam. 14) U places this na after tapasvinam. 15) U: khanapanam. 16) U: .<ukrapanam. 17) B reads yamah; marginal emendation adds ni-. 18) U: urddhvarn gatih. 19) U: yatha. 20) U: suryam rajo. 21) B: -vasat. 22) B: prasastam. 23) B: nividher. 24) U: daityanam. 25) B: bhutate. 26) U: -prasaratah. 27) U: vamajanurddhvam. 28) U adds: daksinajanurddhvaprasaro vamapadorddhvam daksinapada^. 29) U: urddhvarn padatale. 30) U: katinisanna iti; B: omit cakarat prsthe katinisanno 'pi iti; marginal emendation adds, reading: katinisanno. 31) U; vajrasanadi-.
VP(T) 2.143.2-146.7 I da ni ye Ses ies pa la sogs pas saiis rgyas pa rnams dan lha min [ni kla klo dari rtag chad pa'i spyi yin pa'm I yan na lha min kla klo rnams ses 'gyur bcos I de ma yin na gon 'og 'gal lo II] rnams dan kla klo rnams kyi ye Ses skye ba'i dus gsuris te I
($K(T) 1.70.2-4) I ye ses skye ste rgyal ba rnams kyiftimafiinmo'i dus su mtshan mo phyed dari mtshan mo'i mthar I I lha min rnams kyi zla ba mtshan mo'i dus su ni ma phyed dari nin mo dag gi mjug tu'o I I yari dag ye ses rnams (read: rnam)fiamsdag la tshig ni legs sbyar tha mal dag tu rab tu 'gyur baste I I t\ dari drag po las te srid pa gsum gyi gnas su skyes bu nid dari tha mal dag kyaririoII 98
I Mir nes par mal 'byor goms pa rnam pa gsum saris rgyas pa'i dari I lha min gyi dari 1 'byuri po'i 'o I de la sans rgyas pa'i rnal 'byor ni I stori pa I Mid dari sniri rje'i bdag fiid do I lha min [kla klo rnams] gyi ni [bios I kun] btags pa'i chos so I 'byuri po yi ni [mu stegs pa] rnam pa gnis te I I
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rtag pa'i no bo[r 'dod pa] dari chad pa'i no bo[r 'dod pa] 'o I de bzin du I rnal 'byor de goms pa la dga' ba nid las I de nid gari la yod pa'i rnal 'byor pa mam pa gsum mo I de rnams las [ye Ses skye ba'i dus] nin I mo'i cha la sans rgyas pa'i rnal 'byor pa rnams kyi ye ses skye'o I I mtshan mo'i cha la lha min gyi rnal 'byor pa rnams kyi'o I thun I mtshams bzi spans pa'i [mtshams bzi'i] dus su 'byuri po'i rnal 'byor pa rnams kyi ye ses skye'o I 'dir dus kyi cha ni I ye Ses skye ste I rgyal ba I rnams kyi ni ma nin mo'i dus su [ye Ses skye ba nin mo'i dus ni I] mtshan mo phyed [nas] dan mtshan mo'i mthar [te tho raris kyi ni ma phyed kyi bar du'o II] I lha min rnams kyi zla ba mtshan mo'i dus su [ye Ses skye ste mtshan mo'i dus ni I] fti ma phyed [nas] dan nin mo dag gi mjug tu [ste nam phyed kyi bar du] 'o I 'byun po rnams kyi yari [rgyud I du drios su] ma brjod pa md las thun mtshams spans pa'i dus su'o I 'dir I mtshan mo'i phyed dam sria dro'i thun mtshams la saris rgyas pa rnams kyi ye Ses lhag par gnas 'gyur [bas saris rgyas kyari tho raris saris rgyas pa lta bu'i] ro I ni ma phyed dam nub par gyur pa'i thun mtshams la I I lha min rnams kyi ye Ses [skye 'chi curi zad tsam mthori ba de] lhag par gnas par 'gyur ro I gzan thun bzTi thun mtshams la 'byuri po rnams kyi I ste I nin mo'i cha la ['byuri po rnams kyi] rtag pa'i ye Ses lhag par gnas Siri mtshan mo'i cha la chad pa'i ye Ses lhag par gnas so I saris rgyas pa I dari lha min 'di dag gi graris bzm du saris rgyas pa rnams kyi yari dag ye ses su 'gyur ro I [saris rgyas pa] 'di'i chos dari 'gal ba rnam nams ni I I lha min rnams kyir (read: kyi) 'gyur ro I yari dag Ses (read: ye ses) ni I I nin mo'i snari ba bzm du thams cad mthori ba'o I rnam nams ye Ses ni I I mtshan mo'i snari ba bfin du sems can rnams kyi 'chi ba dari 'tsho ba curi zad mthori ba'o I ji ltar Ses fe na I de'i phyir gsuris pa I chos ston I pa['i rtags] las [Ses] so zes pa ste I 'dir yari dag ye Ses rnam flams dag la tshig ni legs sbyar tharnaldag tu 'gyur ba ste I zes pa ni I yari dag ye Ses skyes pa [saris rgyas] rnams kyis (read: kyi) legs par sbyar ba'i riag sgra thams cad kyi bdag nid do I rnam nams ye Ses skyes pa rnams kyi tha I rnal gyi riag tu 'gyur te I ston par byed pa po rnams kyi yul gcig gi skad kyi khyad par gyis so I saris rgyas pa rnams kyi ye Ses ni I [thog mtha' I bar gsum dge ba ston pas I] sems can thams cad la ['tshe ba med pas I] sniri rje'i bdag fiid can i\ ba'i las ston par byed pa po'o I lha min rnams I kyi ye Ses ni I Sa bza' ba'i slad du dud 'gro'i sems can la gnod pa byed pa drag po'i las [bde sdug gi rgyur] ston par byed pa'o I srid pa gsum I gyi gnas su saris rgyas pa rnams kyi ye Ses ni I [bde sdug gi rgyur] skyes bu nid kyi [rari rari gi] las ston par byed do I lha min [kla klo] rnams I kyi ye Ses ni sa la tha rnal gyi las [rari gis ma byas pa rgyur] ston par
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byed do II 'byuri po [mu stegs pa] rnams kyi ni I sa la [de gnis ka] rnam par 'dres pa'i las ston par byed do II ye Ses ston par byed pa'i lies pa'o II 98 da ni ni ma guri zes pa la sogs pas saris rgyas pa dan lha min dag gi za ba'i dus gsuris te I ($K(T) 1.70.4-5) I ni ma gun daii mtshan mo phyed nas flin dan mtshan mo'i dus su de dag gis (read: gi) ni za ba'i dus I I bza' ba zan dan ba lah ,4a ste btuii ba rnam man bcud ster dag dan sgo ria'i khu ba'ol I gos ni dmar daii dkar po dag dan ni ma zla ba'i bgrod pa bzin du mtho ris sa 'og gnas I I chos ni 'tshe med 'tshe ba yah ste bla ma'i ries pa'i dbari gis rdo rje lha min gdan yari no II99 I [nin mtshan gyi tshul 'di ni kla klo'i 'dod lugs daii bstun gyi saris rgyas pa'i lugs ni 'di las ldog pa sriar gyi bzin no II] 'dir nin fag so so la [yari na de riri] ni ma guri nas brtsams nas [mdari] mtshan mo'i phyed kyi bar du nin mo [saris rgyas pa'i za ba]'i dus so II [mdari] mtshan mo phyed nas brtsams nas [sari] fii ma guri gi mthar thug pa ni mtshan mo'i dus so II nin mo dari mtshan mo'i dus de la rari rari gi dus kyi phyed phyi ma ni graris bzin du saris rgyas pa dari kla klo de dag gi dka' thub pa rnams kyi za ba'i dus te I khyim pa rnams kyi ni [za dus ries pa bstan pa I] ma yin no zes pa ste ries pa'o II saris rgyas pa dari lha min dag gi bza' ba dari bturi ba yari grans bzin du saris rgyas pa rnams kyi zan khyad par du 'phags pa ste I kla klo rnams kyi ba lari gi Sa dari bcas pa'o II bturi ba ni grari bzin du saris rgyas pa rnams kyi ['o ma la sogs pa] rnam man bcud ster zim pa ste I kla klo rnams kyi bturi ba ni I bya gag [khyim bya] la sogs pa'i sgo ria'i khu ba'o II bgo ba ni I graris bzin du saris rgyas pa rnams kyi gos dmar po ste I kla klo pa rnams kyi ni I dkar po'o II [de rnams kyari] dka' thub pa rnams kyi ste I khyim pa rnams kyi ni ries pa med do II de bzin du si ba'i mthar gnas ni I graris bzin du ni ma zla ba'i bgrod pa bzin du zes pa ste I ni ma steri du bgrod tin zla ba 'og tu bgrod do II de dag gi bgrod pa bzin du [dge ba'i dbari gis] mtho ris kyi gnas ni ma'i bgrod pa ni I saris rgyas la (read: pa) rnams kyi ste I zla ba'i bgrod pa bzin du [mi dge ba'i dbari gis] sa 'og gi gnas ni lha min rnams kyi'o II de bzin du rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi dbari mdor bstan pa las bcom ldan 'das kyis gsuris pa I I [lha mi lha min la sogs pa I] lus can thams cad Si ba na [ste 'chi ba'i dus su] I
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I zla ba bdud rtsi [byari chub kyi sems 'pho ba'i bag chags goms pa las] 'og tu 'gro I I steri du ni ma rdul ['gro la] [mi ses pa ma rig pa'i bag chags dan lhan cig stobs dari ldan pa'i grog (read: srog) dan bcas pa'i] sgra gcan I I [rnam ses srid pa'i mtshan nid do II] rnam Ses drios [bha ba drios po 'di bzin legs so II] po'i mtshan nid [de dge mi dge'i las kyis sprul pa'i skye ba srid pa gzan du 'gro ba] do II de bzin du chos ni I grans biin du sans rgyas pa mams kyi [sems can rnams la] 'tshe ba med pa'o II kla klo pa rnams kyi ni I 'tshe ba ste I yah yig las 'byuh po rnams kyi'o II bla ma'i ries pa'i dbari gis sgom pa'i dus dan 'dod pa'i lha la bstod pa'i dus su grans bzm du sans rgyas pa rnams la rdo rje'i gdan bsiiags sin I kla klo pa rnams la [de ma thag ston pa'i] lha min gyi gdan snags so II yari yig las gzan ni I thun mori ba ste I de ni mi sgrub ciri mi 'gog go II 'dir lha min gyi gdan ni I sa'i hos la pus mo g.yon gyi steh du pus mo g.yas brkyari ziri rkaii pa['i byin pa] g.yon gyi steri du rkah pa['i byin pa] g.yas pa'o II yari yig las [rkari pa bsgyur te rkari pa g.yas pa] 'og tu ste I rkari pa g.yas pa'i steri du [rkari pa g.yon pa] 'o II rkari pa'i mthil du yari I yari yig las rgyab tu dbyi bzag pa'o II rdo rje'i gdan la sogs pa ni I 'chad par 'gyur pa las brjod par bya'o II saris rgyas pa dan lha min gyi bya ba ries pa'o II 99 1.7. Sri Kalacakra 2.158cd and Vimalaprabha 2.7.158cd [VP (S) B 90a4-5; U 1.259.3-4, 11-15. The text of SrT Kalacakra 2.158cd given below is my edition based on the readings in K (S) V, U, B, T (f. 39b4-5; p. 78.4-5). This is 2.164cd in all three printed editions of the Sri Kalacakra. Verses 2.116-121 in the printed editions are clearly a late interpolation. BANERJEE ($K (S) B p. 72) notes that they do not appear in his two best MSS, nor in the Peking, sDe dge, or sNar thang editions of the Tibetan translation. They are also absent from $K (T). Cf. VP (S) U 1.232-33, note.] idanim mlecchatayinam matam ucyate kartretyadi I
Sri Kalacakra 2.158cd kartra srstam samastam sacaram acarajam tayinam bhuktihetoh svargas tasya pratosad1 bhavati khalu nmam desana rahmanah sa II158 II
iha kartra rahmana srstam samastam sacaram jarigamam acaram sthavaram vastu tayinam iti mlecchanam Svetavasinam bhuktihetoh I svargas tasya rahmanah pratosat apratosan narako bhavati khalu nrnam deSana' rahmanah sa I purvokta2 kriyeti tayinam^ mataniyamah II 158 II
v.l.: 1) U: omit de&ma. 2) U: purvokta-. 3) U: tayi-.
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VP (T) 2.203.2-5 da ni [sog po ra ma na (read: rahma na) dan] kla klo stag gzig rnams kyi 'dod pa gsuhs pa I byed po es pa la sogs pa ste I
$K(T) 1.83.7-84.1) I byed po rgyu dari mi rgyu las skyes mtha' dag bskyed tin stag gzig rnams kyi thar pa dag gi rgyu I I de mnes pa las lies par mi rnams mtho ris su 'gyur de ni ra hma na yi bstan pa'o II 158
'dir byed po rahma nas rgyu ba g.yo ba dan mi rgyu ba brtan pa'i drios po mtha' dag skyed cin stag gzig rnams kyi fes pa kla klo gos dkar po can rnams kyi thar pa dag gi rgyu I [byed pa po] rahma nah de mnes pa las ries par mi rnams mtho ris dan I ma mnes pa las dmyal bar 'gyur ro zes pa de ni rahmah'i {read: rahma nah'i) bstan pa ste I bya ba ni [ye Ses skye ba la sogs pa'i dus skabs su] snar brjod pa'o II stag gzig gi 'dod pa nes pa'o II 158 1.8. Vimalaprabha 2.7.160b, comment on $rl Kalacakra 2.160b (166b of printed eds.) [VP (S) B 90b4; U 1.260.26-261.1] kin canyad iha kila Sruyate yada vedabhavo bhavati mlecchair vedadharme ucchadite sati tada 0K 2.160b:) brahma vaktraiS caturbhih prakatayati pura vedasabdena1 cartharn indrah paSur asld ityadipatheneti I ato 'rtho 'nyo vedo 'nya iti siddham I
v.l.: l)B:-!abdena.
VP (T) 2.206.3-5 gzan pa ci 'dir gaii gi tshe [dan por rig byed yod kyaii] kla klo rnams kyis rig byed kyi chos [bi\ po rgya mtshor bskyur nas] bsgribs par gyur pa na rig byed med par gyur pa de'i tshe [tsharis pas dran nas] tshafts pa'i gdori bzi dag gis siion gyi rig byed [de slar] sgra dag gis kyan don ni rab tu gsal bar byas te I dbari po phyugs su gyur ces pa la sogs [pa rig byed 'don] pa'i klog gis so zes zer ba thos so II de'i phyir don gzan daii rig byed gzan es grub bo II 1.9. Vimalaprabha 2.7.161, comment on Sri Kdlacakra 2.161 (2.167 of printed eds.) [VP (S) B 90b7-91al; U 1.261.17-21] kin canyad iha brahmamukhat brahmana jatah kila satyam I atah prcchami kim brahmanyo1 'pi tato jatah I yadi syus tada bhaginyo bhavanti ekayonisamutpannatvad iti I evam ksatriyadlnam api I vivaharn bhaginya
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sardham bhavati katham I atha bhavati tada mlecchadharmapravrttir bhavati I mlecchadharmapravrttau jatiksayah jatiksayan narakam iti nyayah I
v.l.: 1) U: brahmanye.
VP (T) 2.207.5-208.2 I gzan pa ci I 'dir tsharis pa'i kha nas bram ze mams skyes pa ni bden par grag go I de'i phyir bdag gis dri bar bya'o I bram ze mo rnams kyan I I [tshans pa'i kha] de las skyes par gyur tarn ci I gal te gyur na de'i tshe srin mor 'gyur te I skye gnas gcig las skyes pa nid kyi phyir ro I de bzin I du rgyal rigs la sogs pa rnams kyan no I de'i phyir srin mo dan lhan cig I bag ma ji Itar byed I ci ste byed na de'i tshe [bram ze rnams] kla klo'i chos la zugs [par thai te srin mo bag mar len pas] so I kla klo'i chos la I zugs [par 'dod] na rigs nams [par thai] te [I kla klo'i chos la zugs pa'i phyir ro] I rigs nams pa las [bram ze rnams] dmyal ba ['gro ba]r 'gyur I ro zes pa ni [bram ze'i] rigs pa'o I I 1.10. SrT Kalacakra 2.168 (2.174 of printed eds.) and Vimalaprabha 2.7.168 [VP (S) B 93a7-93bl; U 1.268.1-11] idanim purvakarmopabhogavartamanakarmasancayapratisedha ucyate jantur1 ityadi I
Sri Kalacakra 2.168 jantuh purvani karmany anubhavati krtany aihikany anyajatya yady evam karmanao na hi bhavati nrnam jatijatyantarena I samsaran nirgamah syad aparimitabhavair naiva mokse praveSah2 etad vai tayinam tu prabhavati hi matam canyajatiprahinam II168 II
iha yesam mate3 jantuh purvakrtani karmani bhumkte iha janmani krtany anyajatya4 iti yady evam tada karmanas'o na hi bhavati nrnam jatijatyantarena karmaphalopabhogata iti I evan na samsaran nirgamah syad aparimitabhavair naiva mokse praveso bhavatlti I etad vai tayinam prabhavati hi matam I kintv anyajatiprahlnam iti tayinam mlecchanam matam manusyo mrtah svarge va narake va 'naya manusyamurtya sukham va duhkham va bhumkte rahmano niyameneti I ato 'nyajatiprahlnam iti niyamah I 168 I I I
v.l.: 1) B: yantur. 2) U: moksapraveSa. 3) U: matam. 4) U: anyajatyam.
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VP (T) 2.223.7-224.4 I da ni sria ma'i las fie bar Ions spyod pa dan I da ltar gyi las gsog pa la dgag pa gsuris pa I skye bo zes pa la sogs pa ste I
($K(T) 1.86.1-3) I skye bo snon gyi las rnamsflamssu myon 'gyur 'di la byas pa rnams ni skye ba gzan la'o I I gal te de lta yin na las ni 'jig par mi 'gyur mi rnams skye daii skye ba gzan dag gi (read: gis) I I dpag med srid pa dag gis 'khor ba las ni 'byuh bar 'gyur dari thar pa 'jug pa med pa Aid I I 'di dag stag gzig rnams kyah nes par 'dod par 'gyur te gian pa'i rigs kyis rab tu dmanpa'o II168
'dir gaii dag gi 'dod pa las I sriar byas pa'i las rnams [skye ba 'dir] skye bo Ions spyod cin I skye ba 'di la [las dge sdig] byas pa rnams ni skye ba gian la'o zes so II gal te de lta yin na I de'i tshe las ni 'jig [pa dan zad] par mi 'gyur te I mi rnams skye dan skye ba gzan dag gi (read: gis) las kyi 'bras bu rie bar loiis spyod pa'i phyir ro II de ltar na [lam bsgoms kyari] dpag med srid pa dag gis 'khor ba las ni 'byuri bar 'gyur ba med ciri I thar par 'jug pa med pa nid du 'gyur ro II 'di dag stag gzig rnams kyari ries par 'dod par 'gyur te I 'on kyari gzan pa'i rigs kyis rab tu dman pa'o zes pa la I kla klo stag gzig rnams kyi 'dod pa ni I mi Si ba dag I mtho ris sam dmyal bar mi'i lus 'dis bde ba'm sdug bsftal Ions spyod de I [byed pa po] rahma na'i [mnes pa dari ma mnes pa] ries pas so zes pa'o I de'i phyir gfan pa'i [las byed pa po'i lus de riid kyis byed par 'dod pa'i] rigs kyis rab tu dman pa'o zes pa ste ries pa'o II 168 1.11. Vimalaprabha 3.1.3 [VP (S) B 96a6; U II.6.21-22] raktambaram yatha drsta1 dvesam gacchanti papinah I mlecchadharmarata bauddhas tatha Svetambarapriya II iti I
v.l.: 1) U: yadadrstvS.
VP (T) 2.244.2-5 [Note: parenthetical insertions are subannotations] I [khyim pa slob dpon du byed pa] gari [gi] tshe gos dmar [gyi dge slori] mthori gyur nal [I sdig can kla klo'i chos (la) dga' rnams II (gus pa med ciri) ze sdari du 'gyur de yi tshe II saris rgyas pa rnams gos dkar dga' I (bas de bzuri ste rab tu byuri ba'i rtags 'jig par 'gyur ro I) I 'di bzin bsgyur na legs I] I it sdari du 'gyur saris rgyas pa [rnams kyari] II sdig can kla klo'i chos la dga' II de tshe dkar po'i gos la mos [te dkar po'i gos bzuri bas rtags flams pas bstan pa flams dmas par 'gyur ro II] II zes so II
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1.12. Vimalaprabha 3.1.19c (comment on $rT Kalacakra 3.19c) [VP (S) B99b7-100al;UII.18.1-2] daityam iti daityasanam marane ankakarakurmapadavad iti daityasanam VP(T) 2.262.1-2 I Iha min es pa ni I lha min gyi 'dug stans te I [sa'i nos la pus mo g.yon gyi sten du pus mo g.yas brkyans in I rkan pa g.yon gyi steri du rkari pa g.yas pa'o II yari yig las 'og tu ste I rkaii pa g.yas pa'i sten du'o II rkan pa'i mthil du yan yan yig las rgyab tu dpyi blag pa'o II fes bsad la sa dhu pu tras lus bskums te rus sbal Itar gnas pa'i ies bad ciri 'dir I] gsad pa la 'thap mo byed pa'i rus sbal gyi stabs bzin no zes pa ni I lha min gyi gdan no I 1.13. $rl Kalacakra 3.94ab and Vimalaprabha 3.4.94ab [VP (S) B 124b4;U 11.88.25, 89.2-3] -daityendradharmam ... na kuryat daityadharmam mlecchadharmam na kuryad iti SK(T) 1.109.7-110.1 ... lha min dbah po'i chos ... mi bya'o I VP (T) 2.386.2 ... lha min gyi chos ni I kla klo'i chos de mi bya'o es pa I 1.14. Vimalaprabha 5.3 (comment on $n Kalacakra 5.58) [VP (S) B 198b2-6; U III.86.5-17] iha sattva anadikale tlrthikah devabhutasuradharmaratah sarvajnamarganastah caturvarnaikavarna^ritah svargaphalopabhogabhilasinah kartratmavadinah J tesam ^abdavadino devapretadharma^rita Is'varavadinas' catmavadina ca jativadina^ ceti I mleccha 'suradharma^ritah kartrvadino jlvavadino jativadarahitah I esam mlecchanam ubhayagrahah paramanusandohagrahah upapattyangikapudgalagraha^ ceti I esam abhiprayah yadi paramanusamdohatmake SarTre antarvarty upapattyangikapudgalo nasti paramanusandohatmake kaye vinaste sati aparakayagrahanam kah karisyati I tasmad upapadukapudgalo 'sti I tena sadhitena svargaphalam nirvanaphalam' bhavati svargaphalad aparam nirvanam nama na syad iti I tattvaprcchakale tesam svacittabhiprayam abhijnaya tattvavida bhagavatoktam atthi puggalo bharavaho na niccam bhanami naniccam bhanamlti
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I etad eva satyam bhagavato vacanat svapnavasthayam cittavasanapudgalo nanityo na nityo vaktum2 Sakyate I anena tathagatavacanena mlecchadharmam tyaktva bauddha vaibhasika jatah I punar lokottaradharmarn deSyamanam srutva bodhisattvanam iha pudgalagraham parityajya ke cit samyaksambuddhamargam asrita iti I
v.l.: 1) B adds ha; emendation deletes; U: ca. 2) B: nityoktum; marginal emendation adds va.
VP (T) 3.172.4-173.5 I 'dir sems can mams ni I thog ma med pa'i dus nas mu stegs pa I lha dan 'byuri po dan lha ma yin gyi chos la dga' ba I thams cad mkhyen pa'i lam riams pa I rigs bzi dan rigs gcig la brten pa I mtho ris kyi 'bras bu'i Ions spyod mrion par 'dod pa I byed pa po dan bdag tu smra ba po rnams te I de rnams las sgra smra ba po rnams ni I lha dari yi dwags kyi chos la brten pa rnams daii I dbari phyug smra ba po rnams dan I bdag smra ba po rnams daii I rigs smra ba po rnams so II kla klo ni I lha min gyi chos la brten pa rnams daii I byed pa por smra ba po rnams dan I srog smra ba po rnams te I rigs smra ba dari bral ba rnams so II kla klo 'di rnams kyi 'dzin pa griis ka ste I rdul phra rab tshogs pa'i 'dzin pa dari I skye ba'i cha sas can gyi gari zag gi 'dzin pa'o II 'di rnams kyi bsam pa ni I gal te rdul phra rab tshogs pa'i bdag nid can gyi lus la nan du 'jug pa po skye ba'i cha Sas can gyi gari zag med na I rdul phra rab tshogs pa'i bdag nid kyi lus mam par nams pa'i rjes la lus gzan su yis 'dzin par byed par 'gyur I de'i phyir rdzus te byuri ba'i gari zag yod do II de yis bsgrubs pas mtho ris kyi 'bras bu ni I mya nan las 'das pa'i 'bras bur 'gyur te I mtho ris kyi 'bras bu las gzan mya rian las 'das pa zes bya ba med do zes pa ste I de kho na nid 'dri ba'i dus su de rnams kyi rari gi sems kyi bsam pa mrion par mkhyen nas I de ko na nid smra ba po bcom ldan 'das kyis gsuris pa I [khur khur ba'i mdo las] khur khur ba'i gari zag yod de I rtag pa dari mi rtag par bdag mi smra'o II ies pa'o II de nid bden te I bcom ldan 'das kyis gsuris pa'i phyir ro II rmi lam gyi gnas skabs su sems kyi bag chags kyi gari zag ni I rtag pa dari mi rtag par brjod par mi nus so II de bzin gSegs pa'i gsuri 'di yis kla klo'i chos sparis nas saris rgyas pa'i bye brag tu smra ba rnams byuri bar gyur to II de nas byari chub sems dpa' rnams la 'jig rten las 'das pa'i chos bstan pa thos nas I 'dir gari zag tu 'dzin pa yoris su sparis nas 'ga' tig yari dag par rdzogs pa'i saris rgyas kyi lam la brten to II
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1.15. Vimalaprabha 5.3 [VP (S) B 203b7; U 111.96.26-29] punar yugavasane mlecchanam atyantadharmam drstva Sailavan nihkampo bhutva paramaSvasamadhina 'nantan paramagvan spharayitva tair mlecchanam cittani dravayitva svadharme sthapayisyati I tesam dharmotpatanam karisyati na pranatyagam I VP (T) 3.200.5-7 I slar yari dus bzi'i mthar kla klo rnams kyi Sin tu chos ma yin pa gzigs nas ri bo bzin du 'dar ba med par 'gyur te I rta mchog gi tin lie 'dzin gyis rta mchog mtha'yas pa spros nas I de rnams kyis kla klo rnams kyi sems zum par by as te I ran gi chos la 'god par 'gyur ziri de rnams kyi chos 'joms par 'gyur gyi I srog gton ba ni ma yin no I II. Sri-Kalacakra-tantrottara-Tantrahrdaya-nama [D bKa' 'gyur rGyud 'bum KA; P bKa' 'gyur rGyud KA. I mostly follow the readings in P because D appears to have been polished.] 11.1. [D 137a5; P 150a2] ... a yi dam tshig can gyi stag gzig... 11.2. [D 137b4;P150a8-150bl] ... gzan yan ma dhu ma ti srin po'i bdari po 'byuri I 11.3. [D 138b7; P 152a5] ... ma khar yan ni spun zla'i bu mo ran gi bus (bag mar len) I 11.4. [D141b3-6;P155a2-6] I saris rgyas rnams dan 'jigs byed skyes pa bud med gderis can rnams kyi bstan pa lha rten gari I I g.yul du fugs pa'i stag gzig rnams kyi rta yi tshogs kyis de rnams ma lus 'jig par byed I I de rnams rigs gcig gzan gyi nor mi len ciri bden par smra dan gtsari spra rab tu 'jug I I gzon nu gfan gyi churi ma spori iin dka' thub lies pa dan ldan ran gi churi ma bsten I I khrus byas gari fig 'dod pa'i sgra gcan mtshan mo so so'i dus su nin guri phyed yol dan I I srod dari thun gsum dag dari ni ma ri la $ar bar gyur nas Ian lria1 phyag byed ciri I
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I sa steris2 lha yul dag tu stag gzig mu stegs dag la mun can dbari pos gcig tu skyob I I drag po'i g.yul nor pha ltar skyob par byed tin bu dari bran bzin 'gyur la rgyal po ni I I rgyal rigs 'thab mo min pas3 gnis skyes phyugs kyi sa yis 'jigs byed las sogs4 mchod nas su I I sna tshogs sems can gnod pa byed cih gzan gyi nor 'phrog pa yis gduii rgyud 'chad pa 'byuri I
v.l.: 1) D: lnar. 2) D: steii. 3) D: mun pas. 4) D: la sogs.
11.5. [D 142a3; P 155b3] I ni ma gari du tshahs pa'i sa bon fie bar 'jigs par 'gyur ba des na dus phyi mar I I sa gzi skyori ba mchod na 'dir ni g.yul nor kla klo dan ni mu stegs 'jigs' par gyur I v.i.: 1)P:'jig. 11.6. [D 142a5-143bl; P 155b6-156al] I phyi nas sa steri son pa'i gnas dari ziri gi lha khan1 drug bcu2 rtsa brgyad kla klo yi i I mgon po ma dhu ma ti bu dari bu mo spun zla skyes pa rnams kyis 'jig par byed I I der ni bcwa brgyad3 lo la brgya yis brgya la bsgyur bas ma kha las sogs4 'phags pa'i yul I I kla klo rnams dari lha gari mun can ni mar rtogs pa gari de ria yis brlag par bya I I saris rgyas chos dari dge 'dun rnams la skyabs gsum cho gas skye dgu rnams ni der bzag nas I I bde la5 bkod de ka la pa nas lha gnas dga' Idan mchog tu ni ma 'gro bar bya I I nam mkha' mkha' dari dus dari dbari po mig gis dus kyi dus son pa yi6 lo yi tshad I I slar yari skye bo rnams ni kla klo 'jug ste ji srid bcwa brgyad lo la bsgyur dari bcas pa'i bar I I yari nas yari du ria yis rtsod pa'i dus der byuft nas de rnams gzig par bya ba Aid I
v.l.: 1) D: lha gan. D: drug cu. 3) D: bco brgyad. 4) D: la sogs. 5) P: bde ba. 6) D: dus su son pa'i.
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III. SvadaHanamatoddeta [P gives the Sanskrit title of this text as Pradarianumatoddeiaparlksa-nama. I follow the form given by Naro in his Paramdrthasamgraha-nama-sekoddefatTkd(p.61.1). The text appears in P bsTan 'gyur rGyud 'grel PU, but not in D.] 111.1. [P 35b6-7] I ** bzun by a 'dzin pa dan I I gsad bya dan ni gsod po dan I I bi &i bi lla'i snags ched du I I khyab 'jug 'jigs byed skyob [*phyir] ro I 111.2. [P 50a2-3] I garis ri'i by an du sa skyons rnams I I bod sogs rnams su ba Ian za I I nub tu kla klo'i rgyal po rnams I I ba lari gnis skyes rnams kyan gsod I IV. $rl-Paramarthaseva rGyud 'grel GA] [D bsTan 'gyur rGyud NA; P bsTan 'gyur
IV.l. [D13b6-7;P16b7-17al] I tshans pa'i kha fiid las skyes bram ze grags pa na I I bram ze mo yah gnas de nid las yin nam ci I I gal te 'di dag skye gnas gcig las skyes gyur na I I mih po dan ni srih mo bag mar rigs ma yin I (1) I gal te yin na kla klo'i skye bo 'jug par 'gyur I I kla klo 'jug par gyur na rigs ni flams pas te I I rigs zad na ni dmyal bar sdug bsrial mi bzad pa I I rah gi rigs ni 'dzin phyir de dag la 'gyur ro I (2) IV.2. [D17b7-18a2;P22a6-8] I gzan rnams kyis kyah mtho ris bde ba'i rgyu ru ni I I rah gi lih ga'i1 rtse mo'i pags pa2 gcod par byed I I nin mo'i mtha' dan mtshan mo'i steh du bza' ba ni I I hes par stag gzig3 rnams kyis byed par 'gyur ba'o I (1)
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