Vajracchedikāyāḥ prajñāpāramitāyāvyākhyānopanibandhanakārikā/Full text
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वज्रच्छेदिकायाः प्रज्ञापारमितायाव्याख्यानोपनिबन्धनकारिका
Vajracchedikāyāḥ prajñāpāramitāyāvyākhyānopanibandhanakārikā
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This is a two-layer commentarial work on the Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra (the "Diamond Cutter" sūtra), combining root verses by Asaṅga with prose explanation by his half-brother Vasubandhu. In the Sanskrit tradition, Asaṅga's verses are known as the Triśatikāyāḥ Prajñāpāramitāyāḥ Kārikāsaptatiḥ ("Seventy Verses on the Perfection of Wisdom in Three Hundred [Lines]," so named for the sūtra's approximate length), and survive independently in Sanskrit as critically edited by Giuseppe Tucci (Minor Buddhist Texts, part I, Rome, 1956). The same verse-and-commentary combination is also preserved in two separate Chinese translations (Taishō 1511 and 1513). This Tengyur text represents the Tibetan transmission of the same commentarial tradition.
Together with Vasubandhu's independently authored Saptārthaṭīkā (RKTST 3161) and Kamalaśīla's explicitly Madhyamaka-framed Vajracchedikāṭīkā (RKTST 3162), this text forms part of a substantial cluster of Indian commentarial literature on the Vajracchedikā preserved in the Tengyur, reflecting sustained scholarly engagement with the sūtra across differing structural approaches and philosophical framings.
| Reference | Vasubandhu, Asaṅga (དབྱིག་གཉེན་, ཐོགས་མེད་). vajracchedikāyāḥ prajñāpāramitāyāvyākhyānopanibandhanakārikā [वज्रच्छेदिकायाः प्रज्ञापारमितायाव्याख्यानोपनिबन्धनकारिका]. shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa bshad pa'i bshad sbyar gyi tshig le'ur byas pa [ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་བཤད་པའི་བཤད་སྦྱར་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ།]. Tengyur, RKTST 3934 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3934&typ=2. |
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| People | Asaṅga, Vasubandhu |
