Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī: Volume 1, The Basic Texts
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Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī: Vol. 1, The Basic Texts (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese)
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This new edition of Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī - recently ranked as one of the authentic works of the Buddhist thinker who wrote the Madhyamakaśāstra - hardly needs justification. The need for a usable edition of both the Sanskrit original and its Tibetan translation has become apparent as a result of the availability of three modern scholarly renderings of the Ratnāvalī. No one would wish to deny the usefulness of the works of URYŪZU, HOPKINS, and LINDTNER, but the many difficult and controversial passages in the work (especially where the Sanskrit text is no longer extant) call for a reliable textual basis for the comparison and evaluation of these translations. It is the modest aim of this publication to combine in one volume the most important source materials for the study of the Ratnāvalī:
- a) The Sanskrit text as far as it is still available
- b) The canonical Tibetan version of the complete work
- c) The Taishō edition of Paramārtha's Chinese translation
Two important commentaries on the Ratnāvalī - Ajitamitra's Ratnāvalīṭikā and Rgyal tshab rje Darma rin chen's Dbu ma rin chen 'phren ba'i snih po'i don gsal bar byed pa - have also been used for establishing the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts. The critical edition and comparative study of these two works as well as a minute analysis of the Chinese Ratnāvalī are important tasks for future research. It is hoped that the present publication will stimulate and facilitate those tasks. (Source: Hahn, preface, i)
Citation
Hahn, Michael, ed. and trans. Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī: Vol. 1, The Basic Texts (Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese). Indica et Tibetica 1. Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 1982.
Table of contents
- Introduction(1)-(34)
- 1. Previous editions and translations of the Ratnāvali(1)
- 1.1 The incomplete edition of G. TUCCI(1)
- 1.2 The reprint of TUCCI's text by P. L. VAIDYA(3)
- 1.3 The reprint of TUCCI's text by H. CHATTERJI(3)
- 1.4 The edition of chapter 5 by S. DIETZ(3)
- 1.5 The partial translation of chapter 1 by E. FRAUWALLNER(4)
- 1.6 The Japanese translation by R. URYŪZU(4)
- 1.7 The English translation by J. HOPKINS(5)
- 1.8 The Danish translation by C. LINDTNER(5)
- 1.9 Papers on the Ratnāvali(6)
- 2. Source materials used for the present edition(7)
- 2.1 The Sanskrit text(7)
- 2.1.1 Chapters 1, 2, and 4(7)
- 2.1.2 Chapter 5(7)
- 2.1.3 The Nepalese manuscript(7)
- 2.1.4 Quotations from the Ratnāvali in Buddhist Sanskrit literature(9)
- 2.1.5 The metrical structure of the Ratnāvali(11)
- 2.2 The Tibetan translation(14)
- 2.2.1 The canonical tradition(14)
- 2.2.2 Ajitamitra's Ratnāvaliṭīkā(15)
- 2.2.3 Rgyal tshab rje's commentary(18)
- 2.2.4 Quotations from the Ratnāvali in Buddhist Sanskrit literature available in Tibetan translation(19)
- 2.2.5 The paracanonical tradition of the Ratnāvali(20)
- 2.3 The Chinese translation(22)
- 3. Principles and scope of the present edition(25)
- 3.1 The Sanskrit text(25)
- 3.2 The Tibetan translation(33)
- 3.3 The Chinese translation(33)
- 4. Synoptical edition of the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts2
- 5. List of Chinese characters169
- 6. The Chinese translation of the Ratnāvali171
- 7. Index of Sanskrit verses184
- 8. Index of Tibetan verses191
- 9 Concordance Ratnāvali – Ratnāvalițīkā (Peking edition)202
- 10. Abbreviations207
Interconnections
1 Recension of
Ratnāvalī. (T. Rin chen phreng ba; C. Baoxingwang zheng lun; J. Hōgyō ō shöron; K. Pohaengwang chöng non 寶行王正論). In Sanskrit, "Garland of Jewels," a Sanskrit work by the Madhyamaka philosopher Nāgārjuna. The work consists of five hundred verses arranged in five chapters. While the Ratnāvalī contains many of Nāgārjuna's fundamental philosophical ideas, grounded primarily in the notion of emptiness (śūnyatā), the work is more focused on issues of ethics. The Ratnāvalī is addressed to King Gautamīputra of Āndhra, a friend and patron of Nāgārjuna, and much of the text discusses the proper conduct of the laity, particularly those in administrative positions such as ministers and kings. In particular, the fourth chapter is devoted to an exploration of kingship and the proper management of a kingdom. The work also contains a defense of the Mahāyāna as the word of the Buddha (buddhavacana), an exposition of the collection of merit (puṇyasaṃbhāra) and the collection of wisdom (jñānasaṃbhāra), a description of the ten bodhisattva stages (bhūmi) based on the Daśabhūmikasūtra, and a correlation of the practice of specific virtues with the achievement of the thirty-two marks of a superman (mahāpuruṣalakṣaṇa). There are complete versions of the work extant in Tibetan and Chinese translations, but only parts survive in the original Sanskrit. (Source: "Ratnāvalī." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 704. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
