Sūtrasamuccaya
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Sūtrasamuccaya
མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ
mdo kun las btus pa
A Compendium of Sūtras (84000)
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Sūtrasamuccaya. (T. Mdo kun las btus pa; C. Dasheng baoyaoyi lun; J. Daijō hōyōgiron; K. Taesŭng poyoŭi non 大乘寶要義論. In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Sūtras," a work attributed to Nāgārjuna, an anthology of passages from sixty-eight mainly Mahāyāna sūtras (or collections of sūtras), organized under thirteen topics. These topics extol the bodhisattva and the Mahāyāna path, noting the rarity and hence precious nature of such things as faith in the Buddha, great compassion, and laymen who are able to follow the bodhisattva path. The text is of historical interest because it provides evidence of the Mahāyāna sūtras that were extant at the time of Nāgārjuna. These include, in addition to various prajñāpāramitā sūtras, such famous works as the Laṅkāvatārasūtra, the Daśabhūmikasūtra, the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra, and the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa. The Chinese translation was made by Dharmarakṣa (c. 1018-1058) during the Northern Song dynasty and was among the last stratum of Indian materials to be entered into the Chinese Buddhist canon (C. Dazangjing). (Source: "Sūtrasamuccaya." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 876. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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Reference
Nāgārjuna (A tsAr+ya Ar+yanA gArdzu na). sūtrasamuccaya. mdo kun las btus pa [མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ]. [A Compendium of Sūtras (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3275 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3275&typ=2.
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1 Scholarship
The author deals with the thirteen works attributed to Nāgārjuna. The first six are mainly dialectical works such as Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Śūnyatāsaptati, Vigrahavyāvartanī, Vaidalyaprakaraṇa, Vyavahārasiddhi, Yuktiṣaṣṭikā followed by the remaining seven which are chiefly didactic texts - Catuḥstava, Ratnāvali, Pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā, Sūtrasamuccaya, Bodhicittavivaraṇa, Suhṛllekha, and Bodhisaṃbhāra (ka). Thus he roughly follows the prescriptive distinction between Yukti and Agama.
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The author deals with the thirteen works attributed to Nāgārjuna. The first six are mainly dialectical works such as Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Śūnyatāsaptati, Vigrahavyāvartanī, Vaidalyaprakaraṇa, Vyavahārasiddhi, Yuktiṣaṣṭikā followed by the remaining seven which are chiefly didactic texts - Catuḥstava, Ratnāvali, Pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā, Sūtrasamuccaya, Bodhicittavivaraṇa, Suhṛllekha, and Bodhisaṃbhāra (ka). Thus he roughly follows the prescriptive distinction between Yukti and Agama.
