Ratnacandra: 6 definitions
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Ratnacandra means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Ratnachandra.
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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beingsRatnacandra (啶班い啷嵿え啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ) refers to one of the 鈥�Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas鈥� (Tibetan: ltung bshags kyi sangs rgyas so lnga) according to various sources in Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism such as the Triskandhadharma-Sutra and the Ratnakuta-Sutra.鈥擳hese texts describe the practice of purification by confession and making prostrations to these Buddhas [e.g., Ratnacandra] while incorporating visualization techniques using a variety of iconographic depictions. The purpose of such practice is to purify negative karma.
Ratnacandra is also known in Tibetan as: rinchen dawa [rin chen zla ba]
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.
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Sanskrit dictionary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryRatnacandra (啶班い啷嵿え啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ).鈥�(1) name of a Buddha: 艢颈办峁Ｄ乻补尘耻肠肠补测补 169.9; of a former Buddha, 厂耻办丑腻惫补迟墨惫测奴丑补 6.8; (2) name of a Bodhisattva: 厂补诲诲丑补谤尘补辫耻峁囜笉补谤墨办补 3.6.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Ratnacandra (啶班い啷嵿え啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ) as mentioned in Aufrecht鈥檚 Catalogus Catalogorum:鈥擭ai峁dh墨ya峁玨膩.
2) Ratnacandra (啶班い啷嵿え啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ):鈥擱aghuva峁兣沘峁玨膩.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Ratnacandra (啶班い啷嵿え啶氞え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ):鈥擺=ratna-candra] [from ratna] m. Name of a god (said to be guardian of a jewel-mine), [艢atru峁僯aya-m膩h膩tmya]
2) [v.s. ...] of a Bodhi-sattva, [Buddhist literature]
3) [v.s. ...] of a son of Bimbi-s膩ra, [ib.]
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Sanskrit, also spelled 啶膏啶膏啶曕啶むぎ啷� (蝉补峁僺办峁泃补尘), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Ratna, Candra.
Starts with: Ratnacandradhvaja, Ratnacandramati, Ratnacandraprabha, Ratnacandrapradipaprabha, Ratnacandravacaka.
Full-text: Ratnacandraprabha, Ratnacandramati, Thirty-five Buddhas of Confession, Ratnacandravacaka, Bhuvanapradipaka, Kalyanamandirastotra, Manikyacandra, Rinchen dawa, Rin chen zla ba, Grahabhavaprakasha, Bhuvanadipa, Naishadhiyacarita, Raghuvamsha.
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Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (by Robert A. F. Thurman)
Lotus Sutra (by Tsugunari Kubo)
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