Kalparaja, Kalparāja, Kalpa-raja: 1 definition
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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on AgricultureKalparāja (कल्पराज) refers to the “king of ritual manuals”, 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 rainmaking, weather control and prescriptions for the use of specially empowered pesticides to eliminate crop damage.—The name kalparāja or “King of Ritual Manuals” is a genre among earlier Buddhist ritual texts: there exist, for example, the Amoghapāśakalparāja or the Gilgit fragment of the Mahāmaṇivipulavimānakalparāja from about the same period. This compound also occurs in the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha, Sarvadurgatipariśodhanatantra, Hevajratantra, and Saṃpuṭatantra albeit not in their titles proper.
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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Ends with: Mahakalparaja, Vajratundasamayakalparaja.
Full-text: Vajratundasamayakalparaja.
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