Dàshèng guǎng wǔyùn lùn 大乘廣五蘊論
Expanded Mahāyāna Treatise on the Five Aggregates (Sthiramati, Pañcaskandhaka-prakaraṇa-vibhāṣya) by 安慧菩薩 (Ānhuì púsà = Sthiramati, 造) and 地婆訶羅 (Dìpóhēluó = Divākara, 譯)
About the work
A single-fascicle expanded commentary by 安慧菩薩 (Sthiramati, c. 510–570) on Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka-prakaraṇa — translated separately by 玄奘 as KR6n0094 (T31n1612). The Sthiramati commentary expands particularly on the saṃskāra-skandha analysis of mental factors (caitasika) and on the eight-consciousness account of the vijñāna-skandha. Translated into Chinese by 地婆訶羅 (Divākara, 614–688) at Cháng’ān, c. 676–688.
Structural Division
CANWWW does not preserve a structural division for T31N1613. The single fascicle is internally organised in parallel with the structure of the parent text KR6n0094, with Sthiramati’s expanded commentary on each of the five skandha.
Abstract
The Pañcaskandhaka-prakaraṇa-vibhāṣya of Sthiramati is the principal Indian commentary on Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka-prakaraṇa and is the most detailed available source for the technical Yogācāra analysis of the mental factors (caitasika) — the eleven good factors, six fundamental afflictions, twenty secondary afflictions, four indeterminate factors, and so on. Its treatment of the vijñāna-skandha presents the eight-consciousness Yogācāra scheme in detail.
The translation by 地婆訶羅 (Divākara) is the only Chinese version of the work — it does not appear in 玄奘’s translation corpus, despite the fact that Xuánzàng translated the parent text. Possibly Xuánzàng did not have access to a complete copy of Sthiramati’s commentary; the gap was filled by Divākara, working at Cháng’ān during the years between his arrival in China (c. 676) and his death in 688.
The Sanskrit text survives (recently edited by Kramer 2013, Beijing/Vienna); the Tibetan version (D 4066) is a parallel witness. The Chinese version is heavily cited in the Cí’ēn commentarial tradition for the technical analysis of the mental factors.
Translations and research
- Engle, Artemus B., trans. The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice: Vasubandhu’s Summary of the Five Heaps with Commentary by Sthiramati. Boston: Snow Lion, 2009.
- Kramer, Jowita, ed. Sthiramati’s Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā. 2 vols. Beijing/Vienna: China Tibetology Publishing House / Austrian Academy, 2013–2014.
- Anacker, Stefan. Seven Works of Vasubandhu. Delhi: Motilal, 1984.
Links
- CBETA
- 地婆訶羅 Dìpóhēluó DILA
- Kanseki DB
- Dazangthings date evidence (680): [ T ] T = CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association]. Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經. Edited by Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郎 and Watanabe Kaigyoku 渡邊海旭. Tokyo: Taishō shinshū daizōkyō kankōkai/Daizō shuppan, 1924-1932. CBReader v 5.0, 2014. https://dazangthings.nz/cbc/source/1/