Samadhiraja Sutra or Candrapradipa Sutra is a Buddhist Mahayana sutra.
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13 Facts About Samadhiraja Sutra
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The Samadhiraja Sutra is a very important source for the Madhyamaka school and it is cited by numerous Indian authors like Chandrakirti, Shantideva and later Buddhist authors.
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Samadhiraja Sutra writes that there were various recensions and versions of this sutra in circulation in India.
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King of Samadhis Samadhiraja Sutra claims its main theme is a samadhi that is the key to all virtues of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and is thus "the single dharma [ekadharmena] that summarizes all teachings and practices".
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Samadhiraja Sutra begins at Vulture Peak, where the main bodhisattva in this sutra, Candraprabha, asks the Buddha how to acquire certain important qualities of the Buddhas.
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Samadhiraja Sutra contains a broad and eclectic range of teachings and ideas and so it is hard to place it in a single category.
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Samadhiraja Sutra is cited by Candrakirti twenty times in his Prasannapada, and it is cited in his Madhyamakavatara.
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Two Indian commentaries on the Samadhiraja Sutra are known, one of which is Manjushrikirti's Kirtimala .
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Samadhiraja Sutra remained a popular source in the Tantric Age, and it is cited in numerous Buddhist tantric works, some of which promote its recitation.
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Samadhiraja Sutra remains influential in Nepalese Buddhism, where it is one of the nine principal Mahayana texts in that tradition, which include the four texts cited above as well as the Saddharmapundarika, Lalitavistara, Tathagataguhyaka, Suvarnaprabha, and Dasabhumika .
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In East Asian Buddhism, the Samadhiraja Sutra was never really very popular and is seldom quoted or commented upon.
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In Tibet, the King of Samadhis Samadhiraja Sutra was studied by the Kadampa school of Atisa, for whom it was an important source.
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