Daśabhūmisūtranidānabhāṣya/Full text
The Daśabhūmisūtranidānabhāṣya (Tib. 'Phags pa sa bcu'i mdo sde'i gleng gzhi bshad pa, "An Explanation of the Introduction to the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis") is a short commentary attributed to Śākyabuddhi (Slob dpon shAkya'i blo). It does not comment on the Daśabhūmikasūtra as a whole, only on its introduction (nidāna): the passage describing the great assembly of bodhisattvas gathered to hear the teaching. Śākyabuddhi explains the assembly's greatness in terms of its qualities and its numbers, and sets out the bodhisattvas' qualities under five headings: having received the Buddha's prophecy in person, as irreversible bodhisattvas of the eighth bhūmi; being close to buddhahood, needing only one more birth; and their miraculous powers of mind, body, and speech. Under the powers of mind he explains, among other things, how wisdom keeps the bodhisattva from abiding in saṃsāra and great compassion from abiding in nirvāṇa. The commentary ends by noting that the bodhisattvas named in the sūtra, such as Vajragarbha, represent the assembly's great number. The colophon names the author but no translators.
| Reference | Śākyabuddhi (slob dpon shAkya'i blo). daśabhūmisūtranidānabhāṣya [दशभूमिसूत्रनिदानभाष्य]. sa bcu'i mdo sde'i gleng gzhi bshad pa [ས་བཅུའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་གླེང་གཞི་བཤད་པ།]. [An Explanation of the Introduction to the Sūtra The Ten Bhūmis (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3339 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3339&typ=2. |
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