Sahasrajapta, Sahasra-japta: 1 definition
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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgricultureSahasrajapta (सहस्रजप्त) refers to a “thousand enchantments” (suitable for an offering ceremony), according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly [as the Bhagavān taught the detailed offering-manual], “[...] A square maṇḍalaka should be prepared. Flowers should be scattered. A Nāga image should be made in the middle. An offering of what is obtainable should be performed. A pomegranate branch should be enchanted twenty-one times or 108 times or reciting 1,000 times (sahasrajapta), the Nāga image-form should be purified with the pomegranate branch. In whose name it is done, that Nāga is attracted. [...]”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
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