Saddharmapuṇḍarīkaṭīkā
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सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकटीका
Saddharmapuṇḍarīkaṭīkā
དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པུཎྜ་རཱི་ཀའི་འགྲེལ་པ།
dam pa'i chos puN+Da rI ka'i 'grel pa
A Commentary on the White Lotus of the Good Dharma (84000)
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Description
Commentary on the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (Lotus Sūtra), attributed by its colophon to Ācārya Pṛthivībandhu (Tib. Sa'i rtsa lag) of Siṃhala (Sri Lanka). It is one of only three sūtra commentaries—out of eight listed as translated from Chinese in the Denkarma catalogue—that survive in the Tengyur (the others being commentaries on the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the Laṅkāvatārasūtra). Some scholars (e.g., Ernst Steinkellner) have argued that the text may actually be of Chinese rather than Sinhalese origin, despite its colophon's attribution.
Reference
Pṛthivībandhu (yul seng ga la'i slob dpon sa'i rtsa lag). saddharmapuṇḍarīkaṭīkā [सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकटीका]. dam pa'i chos puN+Da rI ka'i 'grel pa [དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པུཎྜ་རཱི་ཀའི་འགྲེལ་པ།]. [A Commentary on the White Lotus of the Good Dharma (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3356 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3356&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma, popularly known as the Lotus Sūtra, is taught by Buddha Śākyamuni on Vulture Peak to an audience that includes bodhisattvas from countless realms, as well as bodhisattvas who emerge from under the ground, from the space below this world. Buddha Prabhūtaratna, who has long since passed into nirvāṇa, appears within a floating stūpa to hear the sūtra, and Śākyamuni enters the stūpa and sits beside him. The Lotus Sūtra is celebrated, particularly in East Asia, for its presentation of crucial elements of the Mahāyāna tradition, such as the doctrine that there is only one yāna, or "vehicle"; the distinction between expedient and definite teachings; and the notion that the Buddha's life, enlightenment, and parinirvāṇa were simply manifestations of his transcendent buddhahood, while he continues to teach eternally. A recurring theme in the sūtra is its own significance in teaching these points during past and future eons, with many passages in which the Buddha and bodhisattvas such as Samantabhadra describe the great benefits that come from devotion to it, the history of its past devotees, and how it is the Buddha's ultimate teaching, supreme over all other sūtras. (Source: 84000)
