Madhyāntavibhāga

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
དབུས་ མཐའ་ རྣམ་ འབྱེད་
Wylie transliteration :
dbus mtha 'rnam' byed

Madhyāntavibhāga ( tib. Dbus mtha 'rnam' byed ; "distinguishing the middle from the extremes") is one of the so-called Five Books of Maitreya . Together with his commentaries, it is one of the major works of Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy, i.e. H. the Vijñānavāda School (Yogacara School) of Northern Buddhism. It is in the Tibetan tradition Asanga (see also Maitreya ) attributed in other traditions Maitreyanātha .

Early commentaries are from Vasubandhu (the younger; 400-480) and Ācārya Sthiramati .

It is one of the so-called Thirteen Great Texts that form part of most Shedra curricula and on which Khenpo Shenga wrote commentaries.

The text was translated from Sanskrit by Shcherbatskoi and by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee along with two commentaries by Ju Mipham and Khenpo Shenga from Tibetan into English.

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The work rejects the general relativism of the Vijnapti-Matrata-Sidhhi of Ācārya Vasubandhu and the pluralism of the Hinayana followers and establishes its own system of a spiritual monism . The Vijñānavāda school of Buddhism represents the latest and last form of this religion, the form in which, after it had transformed Indian philosophy , it left the Indian soil of its origins and spread over almost the entire Asian continent to Japan in the east and Asia Minor spreads to the west, where it merges with Gnosticism .

Overview

The text has five chapters:

  1. Characteristics (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་ , mtshan nyid )
  2. Veil (Tib. སྒྲིབ་ པ་ , sgrib pa )
  3. Reality (tib. དེ་ ཁོ་ ན་ , de kho na )
  4. Cultivating antidotes ( གཉེན་པོ་ བསྒོམ་ པ་ , gnyen po bsgom pa )
  5. Extraordinary large vehicle (Tib. ཐེག་ པ་ བླ་ ན་ མེད་པ་ , theg pa bla na med pa )

Translations

  • Madhyānta-Vibhanga: discourse on discrimination between middle and extremes / ascribed to Boghisattva Maitreya and commented by Vasubandhu and Sthiramati. Transl. from the Sanscrit by Th. Stcherbatsky; Moscow: Acad. of Sciences of USSR Press, 1936 # also Soviet Indology Series , no. 5; Indian Studies. 1971
  • Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham , Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007

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"Copying texts, making offerings, charity,
study, reading, memorizing, explaining,
reciting aloud, contemplating
and meditating -
These ten activities
bring merit beyond measure."

References and comments

  1. ↑ skt. panca maitreyograntha ; Tib. byams chos sde Inga
  2. ↑ cf. rywiki.tsadra.org: Thirteen Great Scriptures : 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
  3. ↑ No. 5 in the Soviet Indology Series .
  4. ↑ s. a. dharmachakra.net: Tibetan texts of Khenpo Shenga's and Ju Mipham's commentaries
  5. ↑ Publisher's information on the translation ISBN 9788170303015 by Shcherbatskoi
  6. ↑ On the Buddhist terms, cf. berzinarchives.com: German Glossary of Buddhist Terms ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berzinarchives.com
  7. ↑ madhyamaka.tumblr.com : Maitreya, Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes, chapter 5
Madhyāntavibhāga (alternative names of the lemma)
Madhyāntavibhāga; dbus mtha 'rnam' byed; Distinguishing the middle from the extremes; dbus dang mtha 'rnam par' byed pa; དབུ་ དང་ མཐའ་ རྣམ་ པར་ འབྱེད་ པ་, dbu dang mtha 'rnam par' byed pa , madhyanta vibhanga