Nāgārjuna
Hymn to the Dharmadhātu
Traditional attribution
Hymn to the Dharmadhātu
धर्मधातुस्तव (Dharmadhātustava); tib. Chos kyi dbyings su bstod pa
A hymn of about a hundred verses comparing the ultimate nature of the mind to butter hidden in milk or a lamp inside a jar, which shines when the jar is broken. It states that this nature is present in all beings, covered by the afflictions, and that the path consists in uncovering it.
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Authorship note
Ascribed to Nāgārjuna in the Tibetan canon; its doctrine of a luminous nature hidden in all beings brings it close to tathāgatagarbha literature, and many specialists regard it as later. The Tibetan "gzhan stong" tradition invokes it.
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Other works by Nāgārjuna
- Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way · 190
- The Dispeller of Disputes (Vigrahavyāvartanī)
- Seventy Verses on Emptiness
- Sixty Verses on Reasoning
- Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
- Proof of Convention (lost)
- Precious Garland (Ratnāvalī)
- Letter to a Friend (Suhṛllekha)
- The Four Hymns (Catuḥstava)
- Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination
- Compendium of Sūtras
- Treatise on the Requisites of Awakening
- Commentary on the Awakening Mind
- Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom
- Commentary on the Ten Stages
- Twelve Gate Treatise
- Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
- Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle
- Treatise of One Verse
- Heart of Means Treatise
- Treatise on Transition between Existences
- The Staff of Wisdom (maxims)
- Compendium of Doctrinal Terms
- The Five Stages (Pañcakrama)
- Rasaratnākara (alchemical treatise)
- Yogaśataka (a hundred medical formulas)
Sources
- Ruegg, David Seyfort. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1981 (A History of Indian Literature VII, 1).
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