Dharmadhātustava/Full text
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.
| Reference | 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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| People | Nāgārjuna, Dānapāla, Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita |
