Abhisamayālaṃkāranāmaprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstrakārikā/Full text
In Sanskrit, "Ornament of Realization"; a major scholastic treatise of the Mahāyāna, attributed to Maitreyanātha (c. 330 ce). Its full title is Abhisamayālaṃkāra-prajñāpāramitā upadeśa-śāstra (T. Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan) or “Treatise Setting Forth the Perfection of Wisdom called ‘Omament for Realization.’” In the Tibetan tradition, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra is counted among the five treatises of Maitreya (Byams chos sde lnga). The 273 verses of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra provide a schematic outline of the perfection of wisdom, or prajñāpāramitā, approach to enlightenment, specifically as delineated in the Pañcaviṃśati-sāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā ("Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines"). This detailed delineation of the path is regarded as the "hidden teaching" of the prajñāpāramitā sūtras. Although hardly known in East Asian Buddhism (until the modern Chinese translation by Fazun), the work was widely studied in Tibet, where it continues to hold a central place in the monastic curricula of all the major sects. (Source: "Abhisamayālaṃkāra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 11. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
| Reference | Maitreya (བྱམས་པ་). Abhisamayālaṃkāranāmaprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstrakārikā [अभिसमयालंकारनामप्रज्ञापारमितोपदेशशास्त्रकारिका]. shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa [ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།]. [The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom (84000)]. Translated by Dpal go mi 'chi med, Rngog blo ldan shes rab. Tengyur, RKTST 3131 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3131&typ=2. |
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| People | Maitreya, Ngok Lotsāwa Loden Sherab, Pal Gomi Chime |
