Āryapañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstrābhisamayālaṃkārakārikāvārttikā
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आर्यपञ्चविंशतिसाहस्रिकाप्रज्ञापारमितोपदेशशास्त्राभिसमयालंकारकारिकावार्त्तिका
Āryapañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstrābhisamayālaṃkārakārikāvārttikā
འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ།
'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i rnam par 'grel pa
A General Commentary on "The Ornament for Clear Realizations," A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines (84000)
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This is a commentary (vārttikā, a gloss/sub-commentary on verses) by Vimuktisena on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra, read in relation to the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (the Perfection of Wisdom in 25,000 Lines). It is a distinct work from Vimuktisena's better-known Abhisamayālaṃkāravṛtti—the two share overlapping subject matter and root-text focus, but are catalogued separately, with different Sanskrit titles (-vṛtti vs. -kārikāvārttikā) and, notably, different translators.
Per its colophon, the Tibetan translation was commissioned by Jetsun Jangchub Ö and carried out by the Nepali paṇḍita Śāntibhadra together with the Tibetan translator 'Bro Seng-dkar Gelong Śākya Ö, an 11th-century figure also known for translating tantric and epistemological works by Vajragarbha, Ratnākaraśānti, and Jñānaśrīmitra. The colophon further records the text's length as 5,400 ślokas. (Source: BDRC and AIBS).
Reference
Vimuktasena (slob dpon rnam par grol ba'i sde). Āryapañcaviṃśatisāhasrikāprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstrābhisamayālaṃkārakārikāvārttikā [आर्यपञ्चविंशतिसाहस्रिकाप्रज्ञापारमितोपदेशशास्त्राभिसमयालंकारकारिकावार्त्तिका]. 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i rnam par 'grel pa [འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཉི་ཤུ་ལྔ་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པའི་རྣམ་པར་འགྲེལ་པ།]. [A General Commentary on "The Ornament for Clear Realizations," A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3133 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3133&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
The Perfection of Wisdom in 25,000 Lines is the second longest of the six ‘mother’ Prajñāpāramitā texts (yum drug). It comprises three entire volumes of the Kangyur (vols. 26-28) and is divided into 76 chapters relating dialogues between the Buddha and senior disciples, notably Śāriputra, Subhūti and Ānanda.
With some exceptions, the text parallels the structure of the other Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, especially the Prajñāpāramitā in 10,000 Lines, yet it has traditionally been regarded as more influential, analyzing the bodhisattvas’ transcendent perfections in considerably greater detail, and showing how bodhisattvas should practise them without ever considering either their practice, or any other phenomena whatsoever, as truly existing.
An original Sanskrit version found in Gilgit exists, as well as four distinct Chinese translations. There is also an important recast Sanskrit manuscript, possibly of 5th century origin, which divides the text according to the eight sections of Asaṅga-Maitreya’s famous treatise, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra. The Tibetan text dates from the 9th century. There are several important commentaries on the text in the Tengyur, by Haribhadra, Smṛtijñānakīrti, Vimuktasena and others. (Source: 84000)4 Partial translations
Maitreya's Abhisamayālaṃkāra is the most widely studied book in Tibet, where it was brought from India many centuries ago. It is used in all the monasteries to teach the path to Buddhahood, in accordance with the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It teaches this in outline form, so it requires a commentary to be understood. The oldest extant commentary is Arya Vimuktisena's Vṛtti. Haribhadra, the most influential Indian commentator, drew upon this to write his Ālokā. Virtually all of the many famous Tibetan teachers who wrote their own commentaries on the Abhisamayālaṃkāra relied on Haribhadra as their primary source. This is the first of four volumes. (Source Accessed July 26, 2026)
This second of four volumes includes translations of chapters two ("Knowledge of Paths") and three ("All knowledge") of Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations as explained in Arya Vimuktisena's Commentary and Haribhadra's Light. The Ornament is a very brief, but nonetheless insightful, explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra, mainly of the version in Twenty-five Thousand Lines. According to Haribhadra, it is also a self-conscious explanation of the Eight Thousand. (Sparham, translator's introduction, ix)
This is the third of four volumes of translations of Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations as explained in Ārya Vimuktisena's Commentary and Haribhadra's Light. The Ornament is a brief explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines, and, according
to Haribhadra, the version in Eight Thousand Lines as well. (Sparham, translator's introduction, ix)
This is the last of four volumes completing the translation of Maitreya's Ornament for the Clear Realizations as explained in Arya Vimuktisena's Commentary and Haribhadra's Light. The Ornament is a brief explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra in Twenty-five Thousand Lines (the Large Sutra), and, according to Haribhadra, the version in Eight Thousand Lines as well. (Sparham, translator's introduction, xiii)
