Unrai Wogihara

Unrai Wogihara

Unrai Wogihara, also known as Ogiwara Unrai, was a Japanese scholar and editor specializing in Buddhist texts, particularly those related to Mahayana Buddhism and the Yogacara school.

Here are some key points about his work:

• He edited and published several important Buddhist texts, including the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, for which he corrected many errors and included the commentary of Haribhadra.

• Wogihara edited the Bodhisattvabhūmi, a part of the Yogācārabhūmi, which is a comprehensive treatise on the path of the bodhisattva.

• He also worked on the Abhisamayalankaraloka, another significant text in Mahayana Buddhism, and corrected its text in his edition.

• Additionally, he edited the Abhidharmakośavyākhyā, a commentary on the Abhidharmakośa, a foundational text of the Sarvastivada school of Buddhism.

Wogihara's contributions are significant in the field of Buddhist studies, particularly for his meticulous editing and commentary on key Mahayana and Yogacara texts.

Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ and ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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