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शालिस्तम्बककारिका
Śālistambakakārikā
སཱ་ལུ་ལྗང་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།
sA lu ljang pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa
Verses on The Rice Seedling (84000)
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Description
The Śālistambakakārikā (Tib. 'Phags pa sA lu ljang pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa, "Verses on the Noble Rice Sprout") is a verse rendering of the Śālistambasūtra, attributed in its colophon to Ārya Nāgārjuna. Following the sūtra's narrative, it opens with the Buddha on Vulture Peak, who looks at a rice sprout and says that whoever sees dependent origination sees the Dharma and sees the Buddha, then falls silent. Śāriputra asks Maitreya what this means, and Maitreya's explanation makes up the body of the text. Maitreya first sets out outer dependent origination, using the growth of a sprout from a seed and its conditions (earth, water, heat, wind, space, and season), and then inner dependent origination, the twelve links from ignorance to death. Throughout, he stresses that nothing passes from one moment or one life to the next, illustrating rebirth with the images of a face reflected in a mirror, the moon reflected in a small vessel of water, and fire that burns only while its fuel and conditions are present. The text also describes outer and inner dependent arising in terms of the imagined (brtags pa), dependent (gzhan dbang), and perfected (yongs su grub pa) natures. It closes with the seed of affliction burned by the fire of wisdom, the attainment of buddhahood, and Śāriputra rejoicing and reporting Maitreya's teaching to the monks. The colophon names no translators.
Reference
Nāgārjuna ('phags pa klu sgrub). Śālistambakakārikā [शालिस्तम्बककारिका]. sA lu ljang pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa [སཱ་ལུ་ལྗང་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།]. [Verses on The Rice Seedling (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3325 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3325&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Full translations
An English translation of the Śālistambasūtra by Jeffrey D. Schoening. Includes a translation of Kamalaśīla's Śālistambaṭīkā and the Śālistambakakārikā attributed to Nāgārjuna.
1 Classical commentaries
The Śālistambakamahāyānasūtraṭīkā (Tib. 'Phags pa sA lu ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'i rgya cher bshad pa, "Extensive Commentary on the Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra of the Rice Sprout") is a prose commentary on the Śālistambakakārikā, the verse rendering of the Śālistambasūtra. Like the verses, it is attributed in its colophon to Ācārya Nāgārjuna. It explains the verses one by one, quoting the corresponding passages of the sūtra, and so serves as a commentary on both. Along the way it refutes the view that things arise from themselves, from something other, from both, from a creator such as Īśvara, from time, from inherent nature, or without a cause, and it explains the twelve links of dependent origination in detail. Like the verses, it uses Yogācāra terms, including the foundation consciousness (kun gzhi rnam par shes pa), the three natures, and the statement that the three realms are mind only (sems tsam). In its closing verse the author says the commentary was kept to twelve hundred [verses' length] so that those of lesser understanding could follow it. It is in four sections (bam po). It was translated by the Indian preceptor Dharmaśrīprabha with the translators Legs pa'i blo gros and Jñānakumāra, and edited by the chief editor Dpal brtsegs.
1 Classical commentary of
In this sūtra, at the request of venerable Śāriputra, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya elucidates a very brief teaching on dependent arising that the Buddha had given earlier that day while gazing at a rice seedling. The text discusses outer and inner causation and its conditions, describes in detail the twelvefold cycle by which inner dependent arising gives rise to successive lives, and explains how understanding the very nature of that process can lead to freedom from it. (Source: 84000)
1 Scholarship
An English translation of the Śālistambasūtra by Jeffrey D. Schoening. Includes a translation of Kamalaśīla's Śālistambaṭīkā and the Śālistambakakārikā attributed to Nāgārjuna.
