the_ornament_of_the_mahayana_sutras

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):

Tibetan

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  • of, from, or related to Tibet
  • Tibetan people, an ethnic group
  • Tibetan language:
    • Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard
    • Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dialect
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    • Tibetan script
    • any other of the Tibetic languages

Tibetan may additionally refer to:

  1. Chapter One
  2. Establishing the Mahayana
  3. Gotra (Tib. རིགས་, rigs)
  4. Accomplishment/Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
  5. Suchness (Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་, de kho na nyid)
  6. Power (Tib. མཐུ་, mthu)
  7. Complete Maturation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པ་, yongs su smin pa)
  8. Awakening (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་, byang chub)
  9. Aspiration (Tib. མོས་པ་, mos pa)
  10. Thorough Investigation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་ཚོལ་བ་, yongs su tshol ba)
  11. Explication (Tib. བཤད་པ་, bshad pa)
  12. Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
  13. Subsequent Teaching of the Instructions (Tib. གདམས་ངག་རྗེས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་, gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa)
  14. Skillful Activity (Tib. ཐབས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལས་, thabs dang ldan pa’i las)
  15. The paramitas and means of attraction (Tib. བསྡུ་པ་, bsdu ba)
  16. Offering, Reliance, and Boundless Attitudes (Tib. མཆོད་པ་དང་བསྟེན་པ་དང་ཚད་མེད་པ་, mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa)
  17. The [thirty-seven] Harmonies with Enlightenment (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་, byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa)
  18. Enlightened Qualities (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་, yon tan)
  19. Conduct and Consummation (Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་དང་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་, spyod pa dang mthar thug pa)

[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]

Tibetan Text

Commentaries

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

  • S. Levi, Mahāyāna Sūtrālaṅkāra. Exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yogācāra (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1911)
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