The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་
མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་, Tekpa Chenpö Do Dé Gyen, Wyl. theg pa chen po'i mdo sde’i rgyan; Trad. Chin. 大乘莊嚴經論) — 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):
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Tibetan may additionally refer to:
Chapter One
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Accomplishment/Practice (Tib.
སྒྲུབ་པ་,
sgrub pa)
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Complete Maturation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པ་, yongs su smin pa)
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Aspiration (Tib.
མོས་པ་,
mos pa)
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Explication (Tib.
བཤད་པ་,
bshad pa)
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Subsequent Teaching of the Instructions (Tib. གདམས་ངག་རྗེས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་, gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa)
Skillful Activity (Tib. ཐབས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལས་, thabs dang ldan pa’i las)
The
paramitas and means of attraction (Tib. བསྡུ་པ་,
bsdu ba)
Offering, Reliance, and Boundless Attitudes (Tib. མཆོད་པ་དང་བསྟེན་པ་དང་ཚད་མེད་པ་, mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa)
The [thirty-seven] Harmonies with
Enlightenment (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་,
byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa)
Enlightened Qualities (Tib.
ཡོན་ཏན་,
yon tan)
Conduct and Consummation (Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་དང་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་, spyod pa dang mthar thug pa)
[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]
Tibetan Text
Translations
English
Asanga,
Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Mahayanasutralamkara (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences), American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004
Asanga & Jamgön Mipham, A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras, Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra with a commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara Translation Group (Shambhala, 2018)
Maitreya, Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutras: Maitreya’s Mahayanasutralamkara with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Dharmachakra Translation Committee (Shambhala Publications, 2014)
French
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