Five books of Maitreya

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Asanga and Maitreya
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
བྱམས་ ཆོས་ སྡེ་ ལྔ་
Wylie transliteration :
byams chos sde lnga
Chinese name
Simplified :
弥勒 五 论;
慈氏 五 论
Pinyin :
Mile wu lun;
Cishi wu lun

The Five Books of Maitreya ( skt. Panca maitreyograntha ; Tib. Byams chos sde lnga ) are works of Buddhist literature . In Chinese Buddhism these are partly different works than in Tibetan Buddhism .

According to the Tibetan tradition, the great master Aryasanga (approx. 4th century), the founder of the Yogacharya school, is said to have received the five holy books in heaven Tushita from Bodhisattva Maitreya , the coming Buddha after Shakyamuni (compare: Maitreyanatha ). They are an integral part of the Buddhist Shedra curriculum to this day .

Overview (Tibetan Buddhism)

1. The ornament of clear knowledge (skt. Abhisamayalankara , Abhisamayālaṃkāra; Tib. མངོན་ རྟོགས་ རྒྱན , Wyl. Mngon rtogs rgyan).
2. Filigree jewelry for the Mahayana sutras (Skt. Mahayanasutralankara , Māhayānasūtrālaṃkāra; Tib. མདོ་ སྡེ་ རྒྱན , Wyl. Mdo sde rgyan).
3. The sublime continuum (skt. Uttaratantra Shastra , Uttaratantra Śāstra; Tib. རྒྱུད་ བླ་ མ , Wyl. Rgyud bla ma).
4. Distinction between Dharma and Dharmata (skt. Dharma-dharmata-vibhaga , Dharma-dharmatā-vibhāga; Tib. ཆོས་ དང་ ཆོས་ ཉིད་ རྣམ་ པར་ འབྱེད , Wyl. Chos dang chos nyid rnam par 'byed) the class of oral instruction
5. Differentiation of the middle from the extremes (skt. Madhyantavibhaga , Madhyāntavibhāga; Tib. དབུས་ མཐའ་ རྣམ་ འབྱེད , Wyl. Dbus mtha 'rnam' byed).

Of the five, four are classified under Shastras (commentaries), one falls into the class of oral instruction.

See also

literature

  • ZHDCD (Article: byams chos sde lnga )

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ “[The Yogāchārya School] is the forerunner of the Tantra system; it grants yoga, deep contemplation, much greater influence on finite salvation than do the other schools, and allows supernatural energy to be attained through contemplation. ( Schlagintweit, E .: Tibetan inscription from the Hémis monastery in Ladák. Meeting reports of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich 1864, Volume II, p. 309, note 6 - online ) "
Five books of Maitreya (alternative names of the lemma)
Five Books of Maitreya; 5 books of Maitreya, 5 books of Maitreya; Five Books by Maitreya; Five Treatises of Maitreya; panca maitreyograntha; Mile wu lun 弥勒 五 论; 慈氏 五 论; Cishi wu lun 慈氏 五 論