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सूत्रालंकारादिश्लोकद्वयव्याख्यान
Sūtrālaṃkārādiślokadvayavyākhyāna
མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་དང་པོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བཤད་པ།
mdo sde rgyan gyi tshigs su bcad pa dang po gnyis kyi bshad pa
An Explanation of the First Two Verses of The Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (84000)
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The Sūtrālaṃkārādiślokadvayavyākhyāna ("An Explanation of the First Two Verses of the Sūtrālaṃkāra") is a short commentary by the Kashmiri paṇḍita Parahitabhadra (also known as Somaśrī) on the first two verses of the first chapter of Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra ("Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras"). The text was composed at the temple of Thugs dams kha char and translated into Tibetan by Parahitabhadra together with the Śākya monk and translator gZhon nu mchog, who was active in the late eleventh to early twelfth century. The commentary engages in close philological and philosophical analysis of the opening verses, drawing on Yogācāra doctrine including the three natures (trisvabhāva) and the relationship between conventional designation (ming, nāma), conceptual construction (rnam par rtog pa, vikalpa), suchness (de bzhin nyid, tathatā), and nondeceptive pristine awareness (yang dag pa'i ye shes, samyagjñāna).
Reference
Parahitabhadra (slob dpon gzhan la phan pa bzang po). sūtrālaṃkārādiślokadvayavyākhyāna [सूत्रालंकारादिश्लोकद्वयव्याख्यान]. mdo sde rgyan gyi tshigs su bcad pa dang po gnyis kyi bshad pa [མདོ་སྡེ་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་དང་པོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བཤད་པ།]. [An Explanation of the First Two Verses of The Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3369 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3369&typ=2.
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In Sanskrit, the “Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras”; one of the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya (byams chos sde lnga) said to have been presented to Asaṅga by the bodhisattva Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven. Written in verse, the text offers a systematic presentation of the practices of the bodhisattva from the standpoint of the Yogācāra school and is one of the most important of the Indian Mahāyāna śāstras. Its twenty-one chapters deal with (1) the proof that the Mahāyāna sūtras are the word of the Buddha; (2) taking refuge in the three jewels (ratnatraya); (3) the lineage (gotra) of enlightenment necessary to undertake the bodhisattva path; (4) the generation of the aspiration to enlightenment (bodhicittotpāda); (5) the practice of the bodhisattva; (6) the nature of reality, described from the Yogācāra perspective; (7) the attainment of power by the bodhisattva; (8) the methods of bringing oneself and others to maturation; (9) enlightenment and the three bodies of a buddha (trikāya); (10) faith in the Mahāyāna; (11) seeking complete knowledge of the dharma; (12) teaching the dharma; (13) practicing in accordance with the dharma; (14) the precepts and instructions received by the bodhisattva; (15) the skillful methods of the bodhisattva; (16) the six perfections (pāramitā) and the four means of conversion (saṃgrahavastu), through which bodhisattvas attract and retain disciples; (17) the worship of the Buddha; (18) the constituents of enlightenment (bodhipākṣikadharma); (19) the qualities of the bodhisattva; and (20-21) the consummation of the bodhisattva path and the attainment of buddhahood. (Source: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 514)
