Gocarapariśuddhisūtra

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गोचरपरिशुद्धिसूत्र

སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པའི་ལེའུ

spyod yul yongs su dag pa'i le'u

Chapter 16: Purification of the Sphere of Activity (84000)

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The Gocarapariśuddhisūtra ("Sūtra on Purifying the Domain") is cited by Śāntideva in chapter 19 of the Śikṣāsamuccaya, "Enhancing Goodness," in his commentary on the first line of kārikā 26—"In all postures, for the benefit of sentient beings." After illustrating this line with quotations from the Ratnameghasūtra and the Prajñāpāramitā, Śāntideva directs the reader to the Gocarapariśuddhisūtra for its detailed explanation, without quoting from it directly.

The Gocarapariśuddhisūtra does not appear as an independently titled text in the Tibetan Kangyur. It corresponds to the "Pure Practice" chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra. The title it is also cited by Vasubandhu in his Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārabhāṣya and by Asvabhāva in his Mahāyānasaṃgrahopanibandhana. This pattern—an Avataṃsaka chapter circulating and being cited independently under its own Sanskrit title—parallels other chapter-sūtras of the Avataṃsaka cited by Śāntideva, such as the Vajradhvajasūtra and the Ratnolkādhāraṇī.

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gocarapariśuddhisūtra [गोचरपरिशुद्धिसूत्र]. spyod yul yongs su dag pa'i le'u [སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ཡོངས་སུ་དག་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 16: Purification of the Sphere of Activity (84000)]. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-16 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-16&typ=1.

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Buddhāvataṃsakamahāvaipūlyasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकसूत्र]. sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba shin tu rgyas pa chen po'i mdo [སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Ornament of the Buddhas (84000)]. Translated by Bai ro tsa na, Buddhabhadra, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Śikṣānanda. Kangyur, RKTSK 44 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44&typ=1.

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One of the longest works in the entire Buddhist canon, the Buddhāvataṃsakasūtra is widely considered to be a compilation of independent scriptures, which was expanded upon over the course of time. It was extremely influential in East Asia, where it was preserved in an eighty-scroll recension. The Tibetan translation of this work fills four volumes in the Derge Kangyur. Though only two sections—namely, the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra and the Daśabhūmikasūtra—have survived in Sanskrit, both of which have also circulated as independent works.

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(The) Bodhisattvagocarapariśuddhi ("Purification of the Bodhisattva’s Sphere of Activities"), is attributed to a certain Rāhulabhadra whose precise identity remains uncertain. Depending on the sources and traditions, Rāhulabhadra is regarded either as the master of Nāgārjuna, the founder of the Madhyamaka School, or as a contemporary and follower of Nāgārjuna, or again as a successor of Āryadeva. In addition to this, Saraha, the renowned Vajrayāna master, is also known as Rāhulabhadra.[1] Since the Bodhisattvagocarapariśuddhi is based on the Mahāyāna sūtras, and since it is included in the Madhyamaka section of the Tibetan Tenjur (bsTan ’gyur), one would be inclined to attribute it to Rāhulabhadra associated with Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva. However, such attribution cannot be made with any certainty because this work is not ascribed to him in any other sources except for this one single entry in the Tibetan Tenjur.

. . . The text composed by Rāhulabhadra provides instructions on the mental attitude that a Bodhisattva should assume during his daily activities. According to this text, the principal goal of all such daily exercises is to purify the Bodhisattva's mental dispositions (saṃtāna) and actions, as well as the mental dispositions of all other living beings. . . . As the full title of this text indicates, it is based on the teachings of the Mahāyāna sūtras. The daily practices described in this text do not appertain to the Bodhisattva's standard or major practices, but rather constitute an isolated and less known group of practices. (Skorupski, The Buddhist Forum, Vol. 6, 25–26)

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1. D. Seyfort Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden,

1981, 54, 105.

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(The) Bodhisattvagocarapariśuddhi ("Purification of the Bodhisattva’s Sphere of Activities"), is attributed to a certain Rāhulabhadra whose precise identity remains uncertain. Depending on the sources and traditions, Rāhulabhadra is regarded either as the master of Nāgārjuna, the founder of the Madhyamaka School, or as a contemporary and follower of Nāgārjuna, or again as a successor of Āryadeva. In addition to this, Saraha, the renowned Vajrayāna master, is also known as Rāhulabhadra.[1] Since the Bodhisattvagocarapariśuddhi is based on the Mahāyāna sūtras, and since it is included in the Madhyamaka section of the Tibetan Tenjur (bsTan ’gyur), one would be inclined to attribute it to Rāhulabhadra associated with Nāgārjuna and Āryadeva. However, such attribution cannot be made with any certainty because this work is not ascribed to him in any other sources except for this one single entry in the Tibetan Tenjur.

. . . The text composed by Rāhulabhadra provides instructions on the mental attitude that a Bodhisattva should assume during his daily activities. According to this text, the principal goal of all such daily exercises is to purify the Bodhisattva's mental dispositions (saṃtāna) and actions, as well as the mental dispositions of all other living beings. . . . As the full title of this text indicates, it is based on the teachings of the Mahāyāna sūtras. The daily practices described in this text do not appertain to the Bodhisattva's standard or major practices, but rather constitute an isolated and less known group of practices. (Skorupski, The Buddhist Forum, Vol. 6, 25–26)

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1. D. Seyfort Ruegg, The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden,

1981, 54, 105.