Testament of Ba

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Fragment of the Testament of Ba in the British Library

The so-called Testament of Ba ( Tib. Dba 'bzhed or SBA bzhed ) is Ba Salnang (SBA' gSal snang / dba 'gSal snang ), a Buddhist monk from the middle and late 8th century attributed.

It is one of the oldest chronicles of Tibet from the time of the Tibetan kings , which tells about events in Tibet in the 8th century in the time of King Thrisong Detsen , the founder of the Samye (bSam yas) monastery consecrated in 779 - the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet - and reported the famous Samye debate . It reports on the relationship between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty and the relationship between Tibetan and Indian Buddhism .

According to Pasang Wangdu and Hildegard Diemberger, an original version is believed to have been written in the 9th century; the frequently revised versions that exist today date back to the 12th to 14th centuries. The style of the text suggests that it belongs to a transitional phase between archaic dynastic Tibetan , as encountered in the Dunhuang materials, and early classical / canonical Tibetan .

literature

English

  • Wangdu, Pasang and Diemberger Hildegard (eds. And translator): 'dBa' bzhed: The Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha's Doctrine to Tibet; translation and facsimile edition of the Tibetan text . Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2001, preface by Per Sørensen, with assistance from Charles Ramble and Luciano Petech. ISBN 978-3-7001-2956-1 ( book presentation ) - translation and commentary
  • Sam van Schaik, Kazushi Iwao: Fragments of the Testament of Ba from Dunhuang . In: The Journal of the American Oriental Society, July – September 2008 ( online ).

Tibetan

  • Sba bzhed, Mgon po rgyal mtshan [Gönpo Gyaltsen] (ed.), Mi rigs dpe skrun khang. 1980 (younger version).

French

  • Rolf A. Stein: Une chronique anciene de Bsam-yas: Sba bzhed, Paris: Publications de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1961.
  • Gérard Clauson: Manuscript Pelliot Tibétain 1283 . In: JA, 1957, 245, 11-24.

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Chinese Baxie 巴 协; engl. Testament of Ba / Accounts of Ba, etc.
  2. ↑ Chinese Ba Sainang 巴 • 赛 囊
  3. ↑ He was one of the first seven monks in Tibet ( sad mi mi bdun "seven chosen ones") to be ordained by Shantarakshita in the newly founded Samye monastery; see. Gyurme Dorje, Jakob Leschly: Nyingma History of the Early Propagation of Buddhism to Tibet. ( Memento of July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) tibetanlineages.org, accessed on June 20, 2010: “ Shantaraksita was requested to preside over the ordination of Tibet's first seven monks, the so-called seven men who were tested (sad mi mi bdun), namely: Ba Trizhi (rba khri gzigs), also known as Nanam Dorje Dudjom (sna nam rdo rje bdud 'joms); Ba Selnang (sba gsal snang), Pagor Vairocana, Ngenlam Gyelwa Choyang (rgyal ba mchog dbyangs), Khonlui Wangpo Sungwa ('khon klu'i dbang po srung ba), Ma Rinchen Chog (rma rin chen mchog), and Lasum Gyalwa Jangchub (la gsum rgyal ba byang chub). ”
  4. ↑ T. khri srong lde btsan; Chinese Chisong Dezhan 赤松德赞
  5. ↑ cf. german.cri.cn: The Tibetologist Pasang Wangdu - found on June 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ epub.oeaw.ac.at (book presentation on Pasang Wangdu / Hildegard Diemberger 2001) - found on June 20, 2010.
Testament of Ba (alternative names of the lemma)
Bashe, Wylie sba bzhed; Chinese baxia 巴 协; 拔 协; 拔 協; engl. Testament of ba; sBa-gsal-snang's sBa-bzhed ; Chinese Sangye si guangzhi桑耶寺 广 志; . tib bsam-y-dkar Chag; sba-bzhed-ces-bya-ba-las-sba-gsal-snang-gi-bzhed-pa-bzhugs, Account of Ba, Inventory of Samyé, Biography Record of Sangye Temple (bsam yas dkar chag), “The Royal Narrative (bka 'mchid) Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha's Doctrine to Tibet "(Wangdu / Diemberger)