Nāgārjuna
Commentary on the Awakening Mind
Traditional attribution
Commentary on the Awakening Mind
बोधिचित्तविवरण (Bodhicittavivaraṇa); tib. Byang chub sems kyi 'grel pa
Some hundred verses, preserved in Tibetan, explaining the awakening mind in its two aspects, conventional (compassion) and ultimate (emptiness), and criticising theories of the self and the idealist "mind-only" doctrine.
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Authorship note
Lindtner regards it as authentic; others (Ruegg among them) connect it with the tantric Nāgārjuna because of its link to the Guhyasamāja cycle. Disputed attribution.
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- Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakaraṇa)
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- The Four Hymns (Catuḥstava)
- Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination
- Compendium of Sūtras
- Treatise on the Requisites of Awakening
- 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
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- Treatise on Transition between Existences
- The Staff of Wisdom (maxims)
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Sources
- Lindtner, Christian. Nagarjuniana: Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Copenhague: Akademisk Forlag, 1982 (Indiske Studier 4); reimpr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. ISBN 9788750023852.
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