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दशभूमिव्याख्यानव्याख्यान
Daśabhūmivyākhyānavyākhyāna
An Explanation of (Vasubandhu’s) Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis (84000)
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The Daśabhūmivyākhyānavyākhyāna (Tib. Sa bcu'i rnam par bshad pa'i rnam par bshad pa), "A Commentary on the Commentary on the Sūtra of the Ten Bhūmis," is a subcommentary by the Indian paṇḍita Sūryasiddhi (Tib. slob dpon nyi ma grub) on Vasubandhu's Daśabhūmivyākhyāna, itself the principal Indian commentary on the Daśabhūmikasūtra (the "Ten Bhūmis" chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsaka). Little is known of Sūryasiddhi's life; he is otherwise unattested and can only be dated broadly to sometime between the 4th and 9th centuries CE, after Vasubandhu.
In his commentary, Sūryasiddhi frames Vasubandhu's authority in exclusive terms, asserting that the sūtra's meaning had been revealed solely to Asaṅga, who in turn transmitted it only to Vasubandhu. He also preserves a piece of textual criticism from his own time, noting that some scholars held the sūtra's verses to have suffered corruption in both form and meaning.
The Tibetan translation is credited to Prajñāvarman and Kawa Paltsek (per RKTS); Peter Alan Roberts's introduction to the 84000 translation additionally credits Mañjuśrīgarbha as a third translator, noting his absence from the earlier Vasubandhu commentary team and suggesting the translation may postdate Yeshe De's death during the reign of Ralpachen (817–836). (Source: BDRC and 84000)| Reference | Sūryasiddhi (slob dpon nyi ma grub). daśabhūmivyākhyānavyākhyāna [दशभूमिव्याख्यानव्याख्यान]. sa bcu'i rnam par bshad pa'i rnam par bshad pa [ས་བཅུའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ།]. [An Explanation of (Vasubandhu’s) Explanation of The Ten Bhūmis (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3338 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3338&typ=2. |
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| People | Sūryasiddhi, Kawa Paltsek, Prajñāvarman |
