Second Day of Wisdom: The Seven Buddhas

ON ITS 10TH BIRTHDAY, 84000 PRESENTS THE SECOND SŪTRA IN OUR TEN DAYS OF WISDOM:

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སངས་རྒྱས་བདུན་པ།
The Seven Buddhas
Saptabuddhaka

The Seven Buddhas opens with the Buddha Śākyamuni residing in an alpine forest on Mount Kailāsa with a saṅgha of monks and bodhisattvas. The Buddha notices that a monk in the forest has been possessed by a spirit, which prompts the bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha to request that the Buddha teach a spell to cure diseases and exorcize demonic spirits. The Buddha then emanates as the set of “seven successive buddhas,” each of whom transmits a dhāraṇī to Ākāśagarbha. Each of the seven buddhas then provides ritual instructions for using the dhāraṇī.

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