Essay on The Sutra of Golden Light by Marc van Druten - The Suvarnabhasa - PART 1

In 1951 Johannes Nobel (1887-1960) was invited by the 1st Minister of India, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, & in 1954 by President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, in New Delhi.
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For his bibliografie see Jnanamuktavali (Claus Vogel), Sarasvati Vihara Series no. 38, edited by prof. dr. Raghuvira.
Commemoration Volume; in Honour of Johannes Nobel, on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday offered by Pupils and Colleagues.

The Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra (Ch: 金光明經; pinyin: jīn guāng míng jīng; JP: Konkōmyō Kyō), is a Buddhist text of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism. The title can be translated as the Golden Light Sutra or Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light. The sutra was originally written in India in Sanskrit and was translated several times into Chinese, by Dharmakṣema among others. The sutra is an important Mahayana sutra. It has been translated into Khotanese, Old Turkic, Tangut, Tibetan, Mongolian and Manchu.[1] The name of the sutra derives from chapter 3 where the bodhisattva Ruchiraketu dreams of a great drum that radiates a sublime golden light, symbolizing the Dharma, or teachings of the Buddha.
Now almost forgotten in China, and no Buddhism in central Asia, it became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Guardian Gods (四天王) protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner. The sutra also expounds the vows of the Hindu goddesses Sarasvati, Lakshmi (Shri) and Drdha, the Earth Goddess, to protect any bhikkhu, or monk, who will uphold and teach the sutra.
In 741 Emperor Shōmu (聖武天皇) founded provincial monasteries (国分寺) and nunneries (国分尼寺) in each province. The official name of the monasteries was the Temple for Protection of the State by the Four Heavenly Kings Golden Light Sutra (金光明經四天王護国之寺). The 20 monks who lived there recited the Sovereign Kings Golden Light Sutra on a fixed schedule to protect the country. As Buddhism evolved in Japan, the practice gradually fell out of use, and is no longer continued today.

[The Four Great Kings make an appearance in the Golden Light Sutra where they promise to protect anyone who recites the sutra. They are the rulers of the chthonic forces (deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion) of nature. In this context they are known as the Lokapālas: They belong to the heavens, but they are in touch with the earth, and they are therefore able to keep the powerful energies of the earth under control, and prevent them from having a disruptive effect on the human world. (Sangharakshita 1995: 134)]

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