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आर्यचतुर्धर्मकव्याख्यानटिका
Āryacaturdharmakavyākhyānaṭikā
འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།
'phags pa chos bzhi pa'i rgya cher bshad pa'i rgya cher 'grel pa
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Description
Āryacaturdharmakavyākhyānaṭīkā (Tib. 'Phags pa chos bzhi pa'i rnam par bshad pa rgya cher 'grel pa; Toh 3990a), by Jñānadatta (Tib. Ye shes byin), is a subcommentary on Vasubandhu's Āryacaturdharmakavyākhyāna (Toh 3990), itself a commentary on the Āryacaturdharmakanāmamahāyānasūtra (Toh 251). In his opening verse, Jñānadatta says that although learned masters have already explained the sūtra, he writes for the benefit of those of lesser understanding. He works through Vasubandhu's commentary phrase by phrase, glossing its terms and filling in what Vasubandhu leaves implicit. He comments on the sūtra's setting at Jetavana, and he names the four factors themselves (the thought of awakening, the spiritual friend, tolerance and lenience, and dwelling in the forest), showing how each serves as the remedy for the obstacles, and the foundation for the qualities, that Vasubandhu discusses. It was translated by the Indian preceptors Dānaśīla and Prajñāvarman with the chief editor-translator Ye shes sde.
Reference
jñānadatta (slob dpon ye shes byin). āryacaturdharmakavyākhyānaṭikā [आर्यचतुर्धर्मकव्याख्यानटिका]. 'phags pa chos bzhi pa'i rgya cher bshad pa'i rgya cher 'grel pa [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ།]. Tengyur, RKTST 3922 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3922&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
The Āryacaturdharmakavyākhyāna (Tib. 'Phags pa chos bzhi pa'i rnam par bshad pa; Toh 3990; RKTST 3330), by Vasubandhu, is a short commentary on the Āryacaturdharmakanāmamahāyānasūtra (Toh 251), a brief Mahāyāna sūtra teaching four factors that a bodhisattva must never abandon for as long as they live, even at the cost of their life. Vasubandhu explains why the sūtra was taught, why it gives its teaching as a numbered set of four, and why it calls its audience both bodhisattvas and great beings. He then reads the four factors as the remedies for the obstacles to gathering the accumulations for awakening and as the foundation for the qualities that support it. The commentary closes by explaining why those who strive for the awakening of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas are not called bodhisattvas. The colophon names no translators. A subcommentary on this work, attributed to Jñānadatta, is also preserved in the Tengyur (Toh 3990a).
