Daśabhūmivyākhyāna
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दशभूमिव्याख्यान
Daśabhūmivyākhyāna
ས་བཅུ་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ
sa bcu pa'i rnam par bshad pa
An Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis (84000)
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Description
In Sanskrit, "Explanation of the Daśabhūmikasūtra"; a commentary on the Daśabhūmikasūtra attributed to the Indian exegete Vasubandhu. The work served as the basis for the Chinese Di Lun Zong, "School of Di lun Exegetes," a lineage of Buddhist scholiasts who studied this text. (Di lun is an abbreviation of the Shidijing lun, the Chinese translation of the Daśabhūmivyākhyāna.) The school is considered to be one of the earliest of the indigenous scholastic traditions of East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism, and its thought draws on strands of Indic thought that derive from both the Yogācāra and Tathāgatagarbha traditions. (Source: "Daśabhūmivyākhyāna." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 220. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
Reference
Vasubandhu. daśabhūmivyākhyāna [दशभूमिव्याख्यान]. sa bcu pa'i rnam par bshad pa [ས་བཅུ་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ]. [An Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3333 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3333&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentaries
The Daśabhūmivyākhyānavyākhyāna (Tib. Sa bcu'i rnam par bshad pa'i rnam par bshad pa), "A Commentary on the Commentary on the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis," is a subcommentary by the Indian paṇḍita Sūryasiddhi (Tib. slob dpon nyi ma grub) on Vasubandhu's Daśabhūmivyākhyāna, itself the principal Indian commentary on the Daśabhūmikasūtra (the "Ten Bhūmis" chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsaka). Little is known of Sūryasiddhi's life; he is otherwise unattested and can only be dated broadly to sometime between the 4th and 9th centuries CE, after Vasubandhu.
In his commentary, Sūryasiddhi frames Vasubandhu's authority in exclusive terms, asserting that the sūtra's meaning had been revealed solely to Asaṅga, who in turn transmitted it only to Vasubandhu. He also preserves a piece of textual criticism from his own time, noting that some scholars held the sūtra's verses to have suffered corruption in both form and meaning.
The Tibetan translation is credited to Prajñāvarman and Kawa Paltsek (per RKTS); Peter Alan Roberts's introduction to the 84000 translation additionally credits Mañjuśrīgarbha as a third translator, noting his absence from the earlier Vasubandhu commentary team and suggesting the translation may postdate Yeshe De's death during the reign of Ralpachen (817–836). (Source: BDRC and 84000)1 Classical commentary of
Daśabhūmikasūtra. (T. Sa bcu pa'i mdo; C. Shidi jing/Shizhu jing; J. Jūjikyō/Jūjūkyō; K. Sipchi kyǒng/Sipchu kyǒng 十地經. In Sanskrit, "Scripture of the Ten Stages"; the definitive scriptural account of the ten "grounds" or "stages" (daśabhūmi) at the upper reaches of the bodhisattva path (mārga). In the sūtra, each of the ten stages is correlated with seminal doctrines of mainstream Buddhism, as well as with mastery of one of a list of ten perfections (pāramitā) completed in the course of training as a bodhisattva. The sūtra appears as one of the chapters of the Avatamsakasūtra [chapter 31] and also circulated as an independent text. (Source: "Daśabhūmikasūtra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 220. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
1 A topic of
The Daśabhūmivyākhyānavyākhyāna (Tib. Sa bcu'i rnam par bshad pa'i rnam par bshad pa), "A Commentary on the Commentary on the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis," is a subcommentary by the Indian paṇḍita Sūryasiddhi (Tib. slob dpon nyi ma grub) on Vasubandhu's Daśabhūmivyākhyāna, itself the principal Indian commentary on the Daśabhūmikasūtra (the "Ten Bhūmis" chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsaka). Little is known of Sūryasiddhi's life; he is otherwise unattested and can only be dated broadly to sometime between the 4th and 9th centuries CE, after Vasubandhu.
In his commentary, Sūryasiddhi frames Vasubandhu's authority in exclusive terms, asserting that the sūtra's meaning had been revealed solely to Asaṅga, who in turn transmitted it only to Vasubandhu. He also preserves a piece of textual criticism from his own time, noting that some scholars held the sūtra's verses to have suffered corruption in both form and meaning.
The Tibetan translation is credited to Prajñāvarman and Kawa Paltsek (per RKTS); Peter Alan Roberts's introduction to the 84000 translation additionally credits Mañjuśrīgarbha as a third translator, noting his absence from the earlier Vasubandhu commentary team and suggesting the translation may postdate Yeshe De's death during the reign of Ralpachen (817–836). (Source: BDRC and 84000)
