Maitreyavimokṣa

मैत्रेयविमोक्ष

Maitreyavimokṣa

བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།

byams pa'i rnam par thar pa

Liberation of Maitreya

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According to Paul Harrison in his essay "Śāntideva: The Author and His Project" in Readings of Santideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (2019), the Maitreyavimokṣa is chapter 54 of the Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra (see page 39). He explains that verse 1.14 of the Guide makes mention of Maitreya's commendation of the aspiration to awakening to Sudhana, which is a reference to a sequence of verses in chapter 54 (Maitreyavimokṣa) of the Gaṇḍavyūha. The relevant verses are given in full in the Anthology (See B101-104:G103-106; cf. also B9:G11).

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Maitreyavimokṣa [मैत्रेयविमोक्ष]. byams pa'i rnam par thar pa [བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Maitreya]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajñā, Sheng-chien, Divākara. Kangyur, D44, chap. 45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra (The Sūtra called "The Stem Array"). Recension information:

Sanskrit	गण्डव्यूहसूत्र, Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra. Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra. Edited by P. L. Vaidya. Buddhist Sanskrit Texts 5. Darbhanga, Bihar: The Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, 1960. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.326198/mode/2up. See this text in the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon: http://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/book/40. The Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra. New rev. ed. Edited by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and Hokei Idzumi. Tokyo: Society for the Publication of Sacred Books, [1949?].
Tibetan	ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ལས་སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ་སྟེ་བཞི་བཅུ་རྩ་ལྔ་པའོ།, (shin tu rgyas pa chen po'i mdo sangs rgyas phal po che zhes bya ba las sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u ste bzhi bcu rtsa lnga pa'o). rKTs (Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies) Link: https://www.istb.univie.ac.at/kanjur/rktsneu/verif/verif2.php?id=44-45. Derge 44, chap. 45, vol. 37, phal chen, ga 274.b–396.a; vol. 38, phal chen, a 1.b–363.a, translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, and Ye shes sde.
Chinese	大方廣佛華嚴經 (Dàfāng guǎng fú huá yán jīng), T293, 10: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0293.html, translated by Prajñā. 佛説羅摩伽經 (Fú shuō luó mó jiā jīng), T294, 10: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0294.html, translated by Sheng-chien. 大方廣佛華嚴經入法界品 (Dàfāng guǎng fú huá yán jīng rù fǎjiè pǐn), T295, 10: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T0295.html, translated by Divākara.

Citations of Related Scholarship

* Osto, Douglas. Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. London: Routledge, 2008. https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.195.83/ihx.d74.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Power-Wealth-and-Women-in-Indian-Mahayana-Buddhism.pdf.

• Thakur, Laxman S. Visualizing a Buddhist Sutra: Text and Figure in Himalayan Art. New Dehli: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtraསྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ

In this lengthy final chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, while the Buddha Śākyamuni is in meditation in Śrāvastī, Mañjuśrī leaves for South India, where he meets the young layman Sudhana and instructs him to go to a certain kalyāṇamitra or "good friend," who then directs Sudhana to another such friend. In this way, Sudhana successively meets and receives teachings from fifty male and female, child and adult, human and divine, and monastic and lay kalyāṇamitras, including night goddesses surrounding the Buddha and the Buddha’s wife and mother. The final three in the succession of kalyāṇamitras are the three bodhisattvas Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, and Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra’s recitation of the Samantabhadracaryāpraṇidhāna ("The Prayer for Completely Good Conduct") concludes the sūtra. (Source: 84000)

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Tsukamoto, Keisho, Yukei Matsunaga, and Hirofumi Isoda, eds. "Śāntideva." In A Descriptive Bibliography of the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature. Vol. 3, Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, Yogācāra, Buddhist Epistemology and Logic, 250–69. Kyoto: Heirakuji-Shoten, 1990.

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Lang, Karen. "Śāntideva." In Buddhist Philosophy from 600 to 750 A.D., edited by Karl H. Potter, 137–39. Vol. 21 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2017.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Maitreyavimokṣa [मैत्रेयविमोक्ष]. byams pa'i rnam par thar pa [བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Maitreya]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajñā, Sheng-chien, Divākara. Kangyur, D44, chap. 45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Vaidya, P. L., ed. Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra. Buddhist Sanskrit Texts 5. Darbhanga, Bihar: The Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning, 1960. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.326198/mode/2up.

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Maitreyavimokṣa [मैत्रेयविमोक्ष]. byams pa'i rnam par thar pa [བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Maitreya]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajñā, Sheng-chien, Divākara. Kangyur, D44, chap. 45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Maitreyavimokṣa [मैत्रेयविमोक्ष]. byams pa'i rnam par thar pa [བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Maitreya]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajñā, Sheng-chien, Divākara. Kangyur, D44, chap. 45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Maitreyavimokṣa [मैत्रेयविमोक्ष]. byams pa'i rnam par thar pa [བྱམས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [Liberation of Maitreya]. Translated by Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajñā, Sheng-chien, Divākara. Kangyur, D44, chap. 45. http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Gaṇḍavyūhasūtra [बुद्धावतंसकनाममहावैपुल्यसूत्रात गण्डव्यूहसूत्रः पटलः]. sdong pos brgyan pa'i le'u [སྡོང་པོས་བརྒྱན་པའི་ལེའུ]. [Chapter 45: The Gaṇḍhavyūha Sūtra (84000)]. Translated by Divākara, Jinamitra, Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Prajña, Sheng-chien. Kangyur, RKTSK 44-45 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=44-45&typ=1.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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