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On the Pariṇāmanā Chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
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1. The last chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (BCA) is called the pariṇāmanā pariccheda ('the chapter on the transfer of merit to others'). In spite of this title, the text is not clear as to the merit of what deed is transferred and who transfers the merit. From the context up to the preceding chapter, it is inferred that the same one that has entered the bodhicaryā ('the practices for the enlightenment') transfers its merit. But it is generally understood otherwise that the merit of composing the text entitled Bodhicaryāvatāra is transferred by the author Śāntideva.[1] This understanding is derived from the first verse (BCA 10.1), which summarizes the whole chapter as follows:
- BCA 10.1 bodhicaryāvatāraṃ me yad vicintayataḥ śubham/
tena sarve janāḥ santu bodhicaryāvibhūṣaṇāḥ // - "By the merit of me, who is deliberating the entering into the practices for the enlightenment
(bodhicaryāvatāra-), all people shall become embellished with the practices for the enlightenment (bodhicaryā-)."
The expression bodhicaryāvatāraṃ me...vicintayataḥ is interpreted as "of me (i.e. the author), who is deliberating (i.e. composing a book on) the bodhicaryāvatāra."[2]
2. Probably, this interpretation has been given on the basis of the apparent correspondence of BCA 10.1 to the opening verses of the text (BCA 1.1-3), where the author declares his making of the book. However, the authenticity of these verses is dubious, because of the fact that the Tun-huang ms. of BCA does not have these verses,[3] but puts devotional verses in their place.[4] The same declaration verses also appear in a more suitable context in the introduction of the Śikṣāsamuccaya (ŚS p. 19-14) which is supposed to have been composed by the same author. ŚS starts
with the verses of invitation for all beings to the holy words and thereafter inserts the present verses. It is likely that these declaration verses were borrowed from ŚS into the enlarged vulgate version of BCA,[5] probably on account of the sameness of the next verses of both texts (BCA 1.4=ŚS p. 21-2), which will be examined below. (Kajihara, introductory remarks, 25-26)
Notes
- L. de la Vallee Poussin, Introduction à la pratique des futurs Bouddhas (Paris 1907), p. 143; M. L. Matics, Entering the path of Enlightenment (London 1970), p. 284; G. Kelsang Gyatso, Meaningful to Behold (London 19893), p. 359; P. Sharma, Śāntideva's Bodhicharyāvatāra (New Delhi 1990), Vol. II, p. 471f. Cf. also n. 2.
- Poussin,"Bodhicaryāvatāra", Muséon XI (1892), p. 103; E. Kanakura, Satori he no michi (in Japanese) (Kyoto 1965), p. 211; and the translations in the books listed in n. 1.
- See A. Saito, "Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra Ascribed to Ācārya Akṣayamati" (in Japanese), in Buddhism and society in Tibet『 チ ベ ッ トの 仏 教 と社 会 』(ed. Z. Yamaguchi, Tokyo 1986), p. 84.
- Poussin identifies the first two verses as the preliminary stanzas of the Mūlamadhyamaka and translates the third verse, which consists of a salutation to the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas (Catalogue of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Tun-huang in the India Office Library, London 1962, p. 196).
- For the relations between the vulgate longer version and the Tun-huang ms. of a shorter version, see Saitō (1986), pp. 103-105.
Citation
Kajihara, Mieko. "On the Pariṇāmanā Chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra." Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū) 40, no. 2 (1992): 25-28. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk1952/40/2/40_2_1062/_pdf/-char/en.
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An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
