Bhagavatyāmnāyānusāriṇīnāmavyākhyā
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भगवत्याम्नायानुसारिणीनामव्याख्या
Bhagavatyāmnāyānusāriṇīnāmavyākhyā
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མའི་མན་ངག་གི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ
bcom ldan 'das ma'i man ngag gi rjes su 'brang ba zhes bya ba'i rnam par bshad pa
An Explanation (of "The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines") called "Following the Personal Instructions of the Bhagavatī" (84000)
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Description
The Bhagavatyāmnāyānusāriṇīnāmavyākhyā (Tib. Bcom ldan 'das ma'i man ngag gi rjes su 'brang ba zhes bya ba'i rnam par bshad pa) is a detailed commentary (rnam par bshad pa) on the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra, composed by Jagaddalanivāsin (Tib. Dza gat+ta tA lar gnas pa) and translated into Tibetan by the paṇḍita Alaṅkadeva together with the Tibetan translator Tengpa Lotsāwa Tsultrim Jungne (Tib. Bod kyi lo tsā ba dge slong tshul khrims 'byung gnas). Its full colophon title reads Bcom ldan 'das ma 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i rnam par bshad pa man ngag gi rjes su 'brang ba zhes bya ba. It is classified within the Prajñāpāramitā commentarial section (mdo 'grel, sher phyin) of the Tengyur, corresponding to Toh. no. 3811, and survives in multiple recensions.
Reference
Jagaddalanivāsin. bhagavatyāmnāyānusāriṇīnāmavyākhyā [भगवत्याम्नायानुसारिणीनामव्याख्या]. bcom ldan 'das ma'i man ngag gi rjes su 'brang ba zhes bya ba'i rnam par bshad pa [བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མའི་མན་ངག་གི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ]. [An Explanation (of "The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines") called "Following the Personal Instructions of the Bhagavatī" (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3156 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3156&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, like other sūtras on the Perfection of Wisdom, deals with the topic of emptiness and the understanding of the ultimate truth or the way things are. Modern scholars date the sūtra roughly to the 2nd and 1st century BC and consider it to be the earliest sūtra on which other Perfection of Wisdom sūtras are based. Its adherents claim the sūtra to be a part of the words of the Buddha. It is believed to have been taken to the subterranean world and brought back to the human world by Nāgārjuna. It is sometimes known as the Condensed Mother (ཡུམ་བསྡུས་པ་), the term Mother referring to the Perfection of Wisdom which gives rise to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. It is said to be the condensed version of the long version in one hundred thousand lines and the middle version in twenty-five thousand lines. Having spread across Asia and beyond and having been translated into many languages, it is one of the most common books to be found in the Buddhist Himalayas.
The sūtra takes the form of a series of dialogues between the Buddha Śākyamuni, Subhūti, Śāriputra, and others, such as Indra, the king of gods, and a goddess of the Ganges. In the final chapters, the sūtra contains the inspirational narratives of Sadāprarudita and his quest for the teachings on the Perfection of Wisdom from the Bodhisattva Dharmodgata. The sūtra is also one of the earliest Mahāyāna sources proclaiming the luminous nature of the mind.
