Nāgārjuna
Commentary on the Ten Stages
Traditional attribution
Commentary on the Ten Stages
*Daśabhūmikavibhāṣā; chin. 十住毘婆沙論 Shí zhù píposhā lùn
An incomplete commentary on the first two of the bodhisattva's ten stages. Its chapter on the "easy path" of faith and invocation of the buddhas was decisive for the Pure Land school in China and Japan.
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Authorship note
Ascribed to Nāgārjuna in the translation by Kumārajīva and Buddhayaśas; scholars regard the ascription as doubtful. It survives only in Chinese.
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Chino clásico · 文言
Nāgārjuna
十住毘婆沙論
The Conscious Library十住毘婆沙論
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, 410
Translation: Kumārajīva
Traducción china antigua, T26 n.º 1521; texto en zh.wikisource.org
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- 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
- Twelve Gate Treatise
- Akutobhayā ("Fearless" commentary on the Verses)
- Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle
- Treatise of One Verse
- Heart of Means Treatise
- Hymn to the Dharmadhātu
- 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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