This commentary by Yeshe De, titled Bhadracaryācatuṣṭīkāpiṇḍārthābhismaraṇa (A Memorandum Condensing the Four Points, A Commentary on (the Vows of) the Conduct of Samantabhadra), synthesizes four earlier commentaries on the Bhadracaryāpraṇidhānarāja (King of Aspiration Prayers for Excellent Conduct) by Dignāga, Śākyamitra, Buddhagupta, and Bhadrabāhu, organizing the prayer into ten main topics: prostration, offerings, confession, rejoicing in merit, requesting the Dharma wheel, requesting the buddhas not to pass into nirvāṇa, dedication of merit, distinctions within the aspiration (divided into sixteen subcategories), the limitless scope of the aspiration, and its benefits in this life and future lives. The text provides detailed explanations of how practitioners should visualize prostrating with countless bodies to infinite buddhas dwelling on every atom throughout the ten directions and three times, make both material and mentally-created offerings, confess negative karma accumulated through desire, hatred, and ignorance, and rejoice in all merit. Yeshe De emphasizes that even the gravest karmic obscurations—including the five heinous crimes with immediate retribution—can be purified through sincere confession, taking refuge, generating bodhicitta, and realizing the emptiness of all phenomena. The commentary concludes by explaining the extraordinary benefits of reciting this aspiration prayer, including accumulating supreme merit, seeing Amitābha Buddha, being reborn in Sukhāvatī, receiving prophecy of buddhahood, and spontaneously accomplishing the welfare of all sentient beings throughout beginningless time.
| Citation | mkhan po ye shes sde (slob dpon phyogs kyi glang po, slob dpon shAkya bshes gnyen, sangs rgyas grags pa, rgyan bzang po). bhadracaryācatuṣṭīkāpiṇḍārthābhismaraṇa [भद्रचर्याचतुष्टीकापिण्डार्थाभिस्मरण]. bzang spyod kyi 'grel pa bzhi'i don bsdus nas brjed byang du byas pa [བཟང་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་བཞིའི་དོན་བསྡུས་ནས་བརྗེད་བྱང་དུ་བྱས་པ]. [A Memorandum Condensing the Four Points, A Commentary on (the Vows of) the Conduct of Samantabhadra (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3693 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3693&typ=2. |
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| Author | Yeshe De |
