The King of Samadhi Sutra (Skt. Samādhirāja Sūtra; Tib. ཏིང་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ | ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ་, ting ngé dzin gyi gyalpö do, Wyl. ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo) aka the Moon Lamp Sutra (Skt. Candrapradīpa Sūtra; Tib. ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོན་མེའི་མདོ་, dawa drönmé do, Wyl. zla ba sgron me'i mdo) is a famous mahayana sutra that is frequently cited in Madhyamika treatises, as well as teachings on Mahamudra.
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The Tibetan translation of this sutra can be found in the General Sutra section (Toh. 127) of the Kangyur (Derge edition). The translators from Sanskrit to Tibetan were Shilendrabodhi and Chönyi Tsultrim.
The full Tibetan title is: (Wyl.) phags pa chos thams cad kyi rang bzhin mnyam pa nyid rnam par spros pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo/
Sanskrit title:
arya-sarvadharmasvbhavasamatavipancitasamadhirja-namamahayanasutra
English Translations
'The Sūtra of the King of Samādhis: Chapters I-IV' in Luis O. Gómez and Jonathan A. Silk (ed.s), Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts
Konstanty Régamey, Philosophy in the Samādhirājasūtra, Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi 1990), reprint of 1938 Warsaw edition. (Includes Sanskrit, Tibetan and English versions of chapters 8, 19 and 22)
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Further Reading
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, King of Samadhi. Rangjung Yeshe Publications
Skilton, Andrew. Samādhirājasūtra, contained in: Jens Braarvig, Paul Harrison, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Kazunobu Matsuda, Lore Sander, ed., Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, Volume II (Hermes Academic Publishing (Oslo 2002), pp. 97-178.
Skilton, Andrew. 'Dating the Samādhirāja Sūtra ' in Journal of Indian Philosophy, Volume 27, Number 6, 635-652
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