The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་, Tekpa Chenpö Do Dé Gyen; Wyl. mdo sde’i rgyan) — one of the Five Treatises of Maitreya. It is included among the so-called “Thirteen great texts”, which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Outline
The text has twenty-one chapters (Tib. <big>ལེའུ</big>, le’u):
Chapter One
Establishing the Mahayana
Refuge
Gotra (Tib. <big>རིགས་</big>, rigs)
Bodhicitta (Tib. <big>སེམས་བསྐྱེད་</big>,
sems bskyed)
Accomplishment/Practice (Tib. <big>སྒྲུབ་པ་</big>, sgrub pa)
Suchness (Tib. <big>དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་</big>, de kho na nyid)
Power (Tib. <big>མཐུ་</big>, mthu)
Complete Maturation (Tib. <big>ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པ་</big>, yongs su smin pa)
Awakening (Tib. <big>བྱང་ཆུབ་</big>, byang chub)
Aspiration (Tib. <big>མོས་པ་</big>, mos pa)
Tib. <big>ཡོངས་སུ་ཚོལ་བ་</big>, yongs su tshol ba
Explication (Tib. <big>བཤད་པ་</big>, bshad pa)
Practice (Tib. <big>སྒྲུབ་པ་</big>, sgrub pa)
Tib. <big>གདམས་ངག་རྗེས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་</big>, gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa
Tib. <big>ཐབས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལས་</big>, thabs dang ldan pa’i las
The paramitas and means of attraction (Tib. <big>བསྡུ་པ་</big>, bsdu ba)
Tib. <big>མཆོད་པ་དང་བསྟེན་པ་དང་ཚད་མེད་པ་</big>, mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa
Tib. <big>བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་</big>, byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa
Enlightened Qualities (Tib. <big>ཡོན་ཏན་</big>, yon tan)
Tib. <big>སྤྱོད་པ་དང་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་</big>, spyod pa dang mthar thug pa
[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]
Tibetan Text
Translations
S. Levi, Mahāyāna Sūtrālaṅkāra. Exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yogācāra, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1911
Asanga,
Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Mahayanasutralamkara (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences), American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004
Mahayana-Sutralankara (mdo sde’i rgyan), Maitreya – Asanga with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara, forthcoming translation
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