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Precious Garland (Ratnāvalī)
रत्नावली (Ratnāvalī, Rājaparikathā-ratnamālā); tib. Rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba; chin. 寶行王正論
Some five hundred verses in five chapters addressed to a king, probably a Sātavāhana. It combines the exposition of emptiness and of the bodhisattva path with concrete advice on government: generosity to the poor, hospitals and rest-houses, clemency towards prisoners, protection of the monastic community. It defends the authenticity of the Great Vehicle sūtras. Walser uses it as the main document for placing Nāgārjuna in his historical context.
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Authorship note
Ascription accepted by Lindtner, Ruegg and the SEP, which classes it among the argumentative works and sometimes among the epistolary ones. It survives partly in Sanskrit and complete in Tibetan and in Paramārtha's Chinese translation (6th c.).
Editions and translations
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English
Nāgārjuna's Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation
Snow Lion, 2007
Translation: Jeffrey Hopkins
ISBN 9781559392747
Chino clásico · 文言
Nāgārjuna
寶行王正論 Bǎoxíng wáng zhènglùn
The Conscious Library寶行王正論 Bǎoxíng wáng zhènglùn
Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō, 560
Translation: Paramārtha
Traducción china antigua, T32 n.º 1656; texto en zh.wikisource.org
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)
- 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
- 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
- Hopkins, Jeffrey (trad.). Nāgārjuna's Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2007. ISBN 9781559392747.
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