Mahayanasutralankara
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The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་, Tekpa Chenpö Do Dé Gyen; Wyl. mdo sde’i rgyan) — one of the Five Treatises of Maitreya. It is included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Outline
The text has twenty-one chapters (Tib. ལེའུ, le’u): Template:Tibetan
- Chapter One
- Establishing the Mahayana
- Refuge
- Gotra (Tib. རིགས་, rigs)
- Bodhicitta (Tib. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་, sems bskyed)
- Accomplishment/Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
- Suchness (Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་, de kho na nyid)
- Power (Tib. མཐུ་, mthu)
- Complete Maturation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པ་, yongs su smin pa)
- Awakening (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་, byang chub)
- Aspiration (Tib. མོས་པ་, mos pa)
- Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་ཚོལ་བ་, yongs su tshol ba
- Explication (Tib. བཤད་པ་, bshad pa)
- Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
- Tib. གདམས་ངག་རྗེས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་, gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa
- Tib. ཐབས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལས་, thabs dang ldan pa’i las
- The paramitas and means of attraction (Tib. བསྡུ་པ་, bsdu ba)
- Tib. མཆོད་པ་དང་བསྟེན་པ་དང་ཚད་མེད་པ་, mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa
- Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་, byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa
- Enlightened Qualities (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་, yon tan)
- Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་དང་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་, spyod pa dang mthar thug pa
Quotations
Quotations: Maitreya, Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, Generosity Quotations: Maitreya, Ornament of Mahayana Sutras, Which spiritual teacher to follow
Tibetan Text
Translations
- S. Levi, Mahāyāna Sūtrālaṅkāra. Exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yogācāra, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1911
- Asanga, Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Mahayanasutralamkara (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences), American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004
- Mahayana-Sutralankara (mdo sde’i rgyan), Maitreya – Asanga with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara, forthcoming translation