Sutra of Recollecting the Three Jewels

Sutra of Recollecting the Three Jewels (Skt. ārya ratnatrayānusmṛti sūtra; Tib. འཕགས་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་མདོ་, Wyl. 'phags pa dkon mchog gsum rjes su dran pa'i mdo ). The name of a collection of three short sutras on the topic of recollecting (anusmṛti) the Three Jewels. The three texts are:

• The Recollection of the Buddha (Skt. buddhānusmṛti; Pali buddhānussati; Wyl. sangs rgyas rjes su dran pa),
• The Recollection of the Dharma (Skt. dharumānusmṛti; Pali dhammānussati; Wyl. chos rjes su dran pa) and
• The Recollection of the Sangha (Skt. saṃghānusmṛti; Pali saṅghānussati; Wyl. dge 'dun rjes su dran pa).

This text is commonly recited in order to purify karma.

Text

Tibetan text

• General Sutra section, (Toh 279, 280 & 281).

Sanskrit text

• Ārya triratnānusṛti sūtram. Sanskrit text at the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon.

Translations

• Noble Sūtra of Recalling the Three Jewels, Lotsawa House
• The Sutra Remembering the Three Jewels, Padmakara Translation Group.
• The Sutra of the Recollecting the Three Jewels, Nalanda Translation Committee
• The Sutra of Recollecting the Three Jewels, Along with a commentary by Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, Khenpo Appey Foundation, 2014

Commentaries

Indian commentaries

• Commentary on Recalling the Buddha (Skt. buddhānusmṛtivṛtti; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་(Derge), Wyl. sangs rgyas rjes su dran pa'i 'grel pa), by Asanga.
• Commentary on Recalling the Dharma (Tib. ཆོས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་(Derge), Wyl. chos rjes su dran pa'i 'grel pa), by Asanga.
• Commentary on Recalling the Sangha (Tib. དགེ་འདུན་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་བཤད་པ་(Derge), Wyl. dge 'dun rjes su dran pa'i bshad pa), by Asanga.
• An Extensive Commentary on Recalling the Buddha (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ་(Derge), Wyl. sangs rgyas rjes su dran pa'i rgya cher 'grel pa), by Vasubandhu.

Tibetan commentaries

• A Brief Explanation on the Meaning of the Sūtra Recalling the Three Jewels, by Jetsün Taranatha, (Tib. དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པའི་མདོ་དོན་ཅུང་ཟད་བཤད་པ་ (Pedurma), Wyl. dkon mchog gsum rjes su dran pa'i mdo don cung zad bshad pa).
  • English Translation:A Little Explanation of the Meaning of the Sutra of the Recollection of the Three Jewels, in Duff, Tony, Ju Mipham, and Taranatha, Unending Auspiciousness: The Sutra of the Recollection of the Noble Three Jewels, Kathmandu: Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2011.
• The Hook of Faith: A Commentary on the Sutra of Recalling the Three Jewels (Tib. དཀོན་མཆོག་རྗེས་དྲན་གྱི་མདོ་འགྲེལ་དད་པའི་ལྕགས་ཀྱུ་, Wyl. dkon mchog rjes dran gyi mdo 'grel dad pa'i lcags kyu), by Ngulchu Dharmabhadra.
• The Melody of Inexhaustible Auspiciousness: A Commentary on the Sutra of Recalling the Three Jewels (Wyl. dkon mchog gsum rjes su dran pa'i mdo rnam par 'grel ba bkra shis mi zad pa'i sgra dbyangs), by Mipham Rinpoche.
  • English translation: A Complete Commentary to the Sutra of the Recollection of the Noble Three Jewels Called “A Melody of Unending Auspiciousness”, in Duff, Tony, Ju Mipham, and Taranatha, Unending Auspiciousness: The Sutra of the Recollection of the Noble Three Jewels, Kathmandu: Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2011.

English commentaries

• Reflecting on the Three Jewels, Chögyam Trungpa, in The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One: The Path of Individual Liberation (Shambhala, 2014), pg 97 - 123.
• The Sutra of Recollecting the Three Jewels, Along with a commentary by Khenchen Appey Rinpoche. Translated by Jhampa Losal and Jay Goldberg at the International Buddhist Academy under the auspices of the Khenpo Appey Foundation, 2014.

External Links

• Noble Sutra of Recalling the Three Jewels, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Recalling the Buddha at The Buddhist Canons Research Database
• Recalling the Dharma at The Buddhist Canons Research Database
• Recalling the Sangha at The Buddhist Canons Research Database