Gunaprabha

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ཡོན་ ཏན་ འོད
Wylie transliteration :
yon tan 'od
Chinese name
Simplified :
功德 光
Pinyin :
Gongdeguang

Gunaprabha ( Skt. Guṇaprabha ; * around 500) or Yönten Ö ( Tib. Yon tan 'od ) was born in the north Indian Mathurā in a Brahmin family. He was a controversial Shramana who, as a follower of the Mahayana, turned particularly against the Hinayana .

According Taranatha he learned all the Vedas and Shastras and entered Vihara in holy orders, he was one of the main disciples of. Vasubandhu in which he gave the three baskets of shravakas acquired and also learning many Mahayana - Sutra and in terms of Vinaya and the Shastras the various Schools acquired. He kept memorizing the hundred thousand Vinaya sections.

He had a large number of students.

Together with Shakyaprabha he is one of the Two Extraordinary Masters ( mchog gnyis ).

Buton and Taranatha report on his deeds .

Works

He wrote the Dulwa Dotsa ( 'dul ba mdo rtsa ) and the Karma Shatam ( kar ma sha tam ).

His work Vinaya Sutra (skt. Vinayasūtra ) with its commentary is one of the thirteen classical Indian Buddhist texts ( gzhung chen bcu gsum ), which with the Thirteen Great Commentaries of the famous commentator Khenpo Shenga ( gzhan phan snang ba ; 1871-1927) one integral part of the Shedra - curriculum of Nyingma , - Kagyu - and Sakya -Schulen form.

Quote

"When he had become the king's guru, even if he had excessive daily needs, he immediately turned everything into works of virtue, and there was no decrease in the virtues he himself practiced."

literature

  • ZHDCD (Article: yon tan 'od )
  • A. Schiefner: Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India , np (St. Petersburg 1869) - ( Online )
  • Paul K. Nietupski, 'Guṇaprabha's Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts', JIATS 5, 2009 ( online access )

See also

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Explanatory Dictionary of Chinese Buddhism. Chinese-Sanskrit-German . From Heinrich Hackmann . Revised by Johannes Nobel based on his handwritten estate . Published by the religious studies collection of the University of Marburg / Lahn. Leiden 1951 ( online ), p. 161
  2. ↑ His four main disciples were Sthiramati (cf. Abhidharma ); Dignāga (cf. Pramāṇa ); Guṇaprabha (cf. Vinaya ) and Arya Vimuktasena (cf. Prajñāpāramitā ).
  3. ↑ Tib. Gnyen dbyig
  4. ↑ Chinese Pinaiye 毘 奈耶
  5. ↑ Taranatha : History of Buddhism in India (trans. Schiefner, p. 128 f.)
  6. ↑ engl. Basic Discourse on Monastic Discipline (et al.), A discourse on monastic discipline that was later extensively commented on by Dharmamitra ; see: Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas : The Treasury of Knowledge: Buddhism's Journey to Tibet , p. 250.
  7. ↑ Tib. ཀར་ མ་ ཤ་ ཏམ
  8. ↑ Tib. 'Dul ba mdo rtsa ba ; Chinese Lü jing 律 经 or 戒律 本 论
  9. ↑ cf. rywiki.tsadra.org: Thirteen classical Indian Buddhist Texts : 1. Pratimokshasutra of Buddha Shakyamuni ; 2. Vinayasutra of Gunaprabha; 3. Abdhdharmasamuccaya from Asanga ; 4. Abhidharmakosa of Vasubandhu ; 5. Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna ; 6. Madhyamakavatara of Candrakirti ; 7. Catuhasatakashastra of Aryadeva ; 8. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra of Santideva ; 9. Abhisamayalamkara of Asanga ; 10. Mahayanasutralamkara of Asanga ; 11. Madhyantavibhanga of Asanga ; 12. Dharmadharmatavibhanga of Asanga ; 13. Mahayanottaratantra from Asanga
  10. ↑ Chinese Shisan bu dalun 十三 部 大 论 / 十三 部 大 論, Engl. Thirteen Great Commentaries; see 十三 部 大 论 注释 (1-13 册) ; ISBN 9787540933654 , Rdzogs-chen mkhan chen Gźan-dgaʼi gsuṅ ʼbum
  11. ↑ Taranatha : History of Buddhism in India , trans. Schiefner, p. 129
Gunaprabha (alternative names of the lemma)
Gunaprabha; Guna prabha; ཡོན་ ཏན་ འོད; yon tan 'od; Acharya Gunaprabha; Guṇaprabha; Yönten Ö; 阿闍黎 功德 光; 功德 光
personal data
SURNAME Gunaprabha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yönten Ö
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian Buddhist
DATE OF BIRTH around 500
DATE OF DEATH 6th century