Dharmadhātustava

धर्मधातुस्तव

Dharmadhātustava

ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ།

chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa

Praise of the Dharmadhātu (84000)

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Nāgārjuna

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Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita

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Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa

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Rgya gar gyi mkhan po kr-iSh+Na paN+Di ta

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Dānapāla

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Also known as the Dharmadhātustotra, it is a praise written in verse attributed to Nāgārjuna. A Sanskrit manuscript found in Tibet was recently published in 2015. However, before this it was only extant in Tibetan and Chinese translations, though fragments of this text were found to be quoted in other Sanskrit texts. It is notable as perhaps the only work of Nāgārjuna that takes a positivistic view of emptiness and the existence of wisdom, in this case represented by the dharmadhātu. In fact much of the language echoes descriptions of buddha-nature. Though modern scholarship has thus called the attribution of this text to Nāgārjuna into question based on its contents, Tibetan scholars have utilized the text as a support for works that promote or defend tathāgatagarbha and it is especially prominently featured in works on other-emptiness (gzhan stong) and Great Madhyamaka.

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Nāgārjuna (ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་). Dharmadhātustava [धर्मधातुस्तव]. chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa [ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་སུ་བསྟོད་པ།]. [Praise of the Dharmadhātu (84000)]. Translated by Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita, Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba, Dānapāla. Tengyur, RKTST 10 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=10&typ=2.

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The Blaze of Non-Dual Bodhicittas (Damdul 2019)

The initial idea for this study, reflection and meditation manual took seed in 2004, when I first started to translate for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I found many of the Nalanda texts frequently taught by His Holiness to be very useful; it occurred to me that a compilation of these in the English language would greatly benefit many seekers who might otherwise lack the opportunity to access them. It is only now, after many years of sharing the working drafts of this manual at Tibet House in New Delhi, as well as in many other places that the idea has finally come to fruition.

The book is divided into five parts:

I. Daily Recitation and Practice
II. Selected Texts for Study, Reflection and Meditation
III. Additional Prayers, Vows and Commitments
IV. Daily Dedication Prayers
V. Appendix

Part I and Part IV serve as a useful guide for all, who have an inclination towards dharma practice, but do not know how to start and design a daily practice session. It is also useful for those seekers who might be misguided and surmise that dharma practice comprises only of mantra recitation and so forth, thereby missing its essence.

Part II helps strengthen the practitioner’s dharma practice on the basis of selected compositions of great scholars and yogis. The actual breakthrough in the mental transformation happens through changes in the thought process, for which study and reflection are the cornerstones. Any of these profound texts and short extracts may be selected for study, reflection or meditation, on an on-going basis.

Part III reinforces and rejuvenates dharma practice and to that end, may be undertaken on a regular or occasional basis.

Part V introduces the reader to meditation practices, both shamatha (calm abiding) and vipasyana (special insight), including meditation on the breath, as well as methods to cultivate Bodhicitta and the wisdom of emptiness. While there are many texts on the wisdom of emptiness, the meditation included here is designed for all those who are not thoroughly introduced to this subject and still want to familiarise and habituate themselves with the wisdom of emptiness.

Brief notes, Endnotes and Glossary have been added to help the readers unfold the meanings of the texts with ease. (preface, xiv–xv)

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Number	10
Canon	bstod tshogs
Sanskrit	dharmadhātustava (D)
Alternate Titles	chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa
Alternate Titles - Sanskrit	dharmadhātustotra;dharmadhātustava
Author	Nāgārjuna
Author (Tibetan)	slob dpon chen po klu sgrub
Translator	lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba
Translator Pandita	rgya gar gyi mkhan po kr-iSh+Na paN+Di ta
Colophon	chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa slob dpon chen po klu sgrub kyis mdzad pa rdzogs so// //rgya gar gyi mkhan po krishna paN+Di ta dang/ lo tshA ba tshul khrims rgyal bas bsgyur ba'o//
Title from Colophon	chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa

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