Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāvyākhyānābhisamayālaṃkārālokanāma/Full text
The Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāvyākhyānābhisamayālaṃkārāloka (Tib. Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i bshad pa/ mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi snang ba, "Illumination of the Ornament of Realization"), also known as the Abhisamayālaṃkārālokā, is a commentary by Haribhadra (Tib. Seng ge bzang po; late 8th century), an Indian paṇḍita active under the Pāla emperor Dharmapāla. It works by taking Maitreya's Abhisamayālaṃkāra—traditionally read as an outline of the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras' structure—and showing where each of its categories is being taught within the actual text of the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra, making it at once a commentary on the sūtra and one of the traditional twenty-one Indian commentaries on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra. It is distinct from Haribhadra's other, better-known work in that same set of 21, the Sphuṭārthā ("Clear Meaning"), which instead explains the Abhisamayālaṃkāra,'s verses directly, without correlating them to any one sūtra's wording. This commentary was translated into Tibetan by Rinchen Zangpo, with a subsequent revision involving Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna and a further translation by Ngok Loden Sherab.
| Reference | Haribhadra (སེངེ་གེ་བཟང་པོ་). Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāvyākhyānābhisamayālaṃkārālokanāma [आर्याष्टसाहस्रिकाप्रज्ञापारमिताव्याख्यानाभिसमयालंकारालोकनाम]. shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i bshad pa/ mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi snang ba [ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བརྒྱད་སྟོང་པའི་བཤད་པ།་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་སྣང་བ]. [An Explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, An Illumination of "The Ornament for Clear Realizations" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3136 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3136&typ=2. |
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| People | Haribhadra, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab, Lochen Rinchen Zangpo |
