The Sutra of Golden Light

The King of Glorious Sutras called the Exalted Sublime Golden Light

(From the FPMT website)
The Sutra of Golden Light is a Mahayana sutra with great power and benefit. Reading the sutra helps bring peace to the world, promotes healing, gives great protection, and most importantly, plants the seed of enlightenment.

This version is the much anticipated translation by Losang Dawa, done at the direct request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. It is the first translation available from the Tibetan.

“The most beneficial thing to have peace and to stop the wars is recitation of the Golden Light Sutra. This is the most beneficial thing to bring peace, everyone should try to do this, no matter how busy they are, even to recite one or two pages, even a few lines. When you read the Golden Light Sutra you also read the ‘mantra without attachment’ this practice is within the text. The benefits of reciting just this mantra: Even all the material possessions, all the human wealth, especially all the wealth of the deva realms (asura’s and sura’s) can not compare to the value of this mantra. It is nothing compared to this mantra. You collect limitless skies of benefit and merit by even just reciting one word of this mantra. So by reciting the whole text is unbelievably beneficial, one collects extensive merits, liberates numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and brings them to enlightenment.” – Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Description

From the appendix of the book:

Original Colophon:
The King of Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan and edited according the linguistic codes of the new Tibetan Language by the Indian abbots Shilendra Bodhi, Jna Siddhi and Shakyaprabha, and the translator-editor Bendhi Yeshe De.
Further, it was edited and corroborated against Choje Chaglo’s Chinese copy of the sutra by the translator Zhonnu Pel.

Colophon for this Translation:
This translation was prepared by Losang Dawa at the request of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and completed on December 21, 2005, at 10:40 in the morning, in Dunedin, New Zealand. Edited by Venerable Gyalten
Mindrol, FPMT Eclucation Department, With the kind and extremely generous assistance of Venerable Lhundup Damchö and Dr. James Blumenthal, both of whom took time from their own translating and editing projects to clarify many points in the Tibetan text and offer many helpful suggestions. Michael Joliffe and Megan Evart acted as this translation’s first test reciters and offered many helpful suggestions.
Proofreading and other editorial suggestions were offered in the final stages by Venerable Tenzin Dekyong of Root Institute, and Sara Blumenthal, FPMT Education Department.