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Mañjuśrī

Dictionary Definition: 

  • Blue Annals, pp. 368, 1045.
  • Verhagen, HSGL, vol. 2, p. 180.
  • Stog Palace catalogue, p. 310.
  • Name of a sthavira of Kāñcī who donated an image. Banerji-Sastri, Inscriptions, p. 241.
  • Mookerji, Ancient, p. 594. Name of a pundit of Vikramaśīla.
  • He was a scholar of Vikramaśīla who later helped Sa bzang Lo tsā ba Blo gros rgyal mtshan with translating the Kri ya'i dkyil chog at Sa skya. Mtshan-tho, no. 122.

Bibliography:

  • [Mañjuśrībhāṣita] Citrakarmaśāstra (or, Vāstuvidyāśāstra).
    • E.W. Marasinghe, The Vāstuvidyā Śāstra Ascribed to Mañjuśrī, Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica no. 67 (Delhi 1989).
    • E.W. Marasinghe, Citrakarmaśāstra ascribed to Mañjuśrī, Being Volume II of Vāstuvidyāśāstra, Sri Satguru Publications (Delhi 1991). Includes Sanskrit (Devanagari) text and English translation.
    • H. Ruelius, Mañjuśrībhāṣita-Citrakarmaśāstra: A Mahāyānistic Śilpaśāstra from Sri Lanka, contained in: H. Bechert, ed., Buddhism in Ceylon and Studies on Religious Syncretism in Buddhist Countries, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht (Göttingen 1978), pp. 89-99.
    • M.H.F. Jayasuriya, Leelananda Prematilleke and Roland Silva, Mañjuśrī Vāstuvidyāśāstra [chapters 1-3], Romanized Transcription with a Tentative Edition, English Translation and Studies, Bibliotheca Zeylanica Series no. 1 (Colombo 1995).
    • Discussion by H. Bechert in: Paul Harrison and G. Schopen, eds., Sūryacandrāya: Essays in Honour of Akira Yuyama (Swisttal-Odendorf 1998), pp. 6-8. It is a lengthy Sanskrit work in more than 1600 stanzas. A single (14th-century) manuscript in Sinhala script exists. Various dates have been suggested, ranging from 5th to 12th centuries.
    • EoB, vol. 6, pp. 605, 619-622.
    • Willemen, BP, p. 151.