The Tibetan Text of the Second Bhavanakrama
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The Tibetan Text of the Second Bhavanakrama
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Kiyotaka Goshima edited the Tibetan text of the second Bhāvanākrama in 1983. This is a significant scholarly contribution to the study of this important Buddhist meditation text. Goshima's edition fills a scholarly gap: While Giuseppe Tucci edited and translated the first and third Bhāvanākramas, and Étienne Lamotte translated the third, Goshima's work specifically provides the critical Tibetan text of the second part, which was previously less accessible to scholars.
Citation
Goshima, Kiyotaka. The Tibetan Text of the Second Bhavanakrama. Kyoto: Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, 1983.
Bhāvanākrama of Kamalaśīla (2 of 3)
The second Bhāvanākrama considers many of [the] same topics [as the first], stressing that the achievement of the fruition of buddhahood requires the necessary causes, in the form of the collection of merit (puṇyasaṃbhāra) and the collection of wisdom (jñānasaṃbhāra). Both the first and second works espouse the doctrine of mind only (cittamātra); it is on the basis of these and other statements that Tibetan doxographers classified Kamalaśīla as a Yogācāra-Svātantrika-Madhyamaka. (Source: "Bhāvanākrama." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 112–13. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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