Yīngluò běnyèjīng shū 瓔珞本業經疏

Commentary on the Yīngluò Běn-yè Sūtra by 元曉 (Wǒnhyo, 撰)

About the work

A one-fascicle commentary on the Púsà yīngluò běnyè jīng (KR6k0105) by the great Silla-dynasty Korean Buddhist philosopher Wǒnhyo 元曉 (元曉, 617–686).

Prefaces

Author’s colophon: 新羅元曉撰.

Abstract

Wǒnhyo’s commentary applies his characteristic harmonising (和諍 hwajaeng) interpretive method to the Yīngluò běnyè jīng’s bodhisattva-path schema. As a major work of Korean Silla scholasticism, it is preserved in the Xùzàngjīng 卍 supplementary canon and is one of the principal extant commentaries on this important Mahāyāna text.

Translations and research

  • Buswell, Robert E. Jr. Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-Sūtra. Honolulu, 2007.