‘Nāgārjuna’s Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds’ is Bhikshu Dharmamitra’s extensively annotated original translation of Ārya Nāgārjuna’s ‘Daśabhūmika Vibhasa’ rendered from Tripiṭaka Master Kumārajīva’s circa 410 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation.
It consists of 35 chapters that explain in great detail the cultivation of the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice leading to buddhahood, focusing almost exclusively on the first two of the ten bodhisattva grounds. This is a work which has never been translated into English before.
Tabella dei contenuti
General Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Outlining in This Work
List of Abbreviations
Directory to Chapter Subsections
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction Endnotes
Nāgārjuna’s Treatise on the Ten Grounds
Ch. 1 – The Introduction
Ch. 2 – Entering the First Ground
Ch. 3 – The Characteristics of the Ground
Ch. 4 – Purification of the Ground
Ch. 5 – The Explanation of the Vows
Ch. 6 – On Producing the Bodhi Resolve
Ch. 7 – On Training the Mind
Ch. 8 – On the Avaivartika
Ch. 9 – On the Easy Practice
Ch. 10 – Getting Rid of Karma
Ch. 11 – Distinctions with Regard to Merit
Ch. 12 – Distinctions with Regard to Giving
Ch. 13 – Distinctions with Regard to the Giving of Dharma
Ch. 14 – The Characteristics of the Refuges
Ch. 15 – The Five Moral Precepts
Ch. 16 – On Realizing the Faults of the Householder’s Life
Ch. 17 – On Entering the Temple
Ch. 18 – The Jointly Shared Practices
Ch. 19 – The Four-fold Dharmas
Ch. 20 – Mindfulness of the Buddhas
Ch. 21 – Forty Dharmas Exclusive to Buddhas (Part 1)
Ch. 22 – Forty Dharmas Exclusive to Buddhas (Part 2)
Ch. 23 – Forty Dharmas Exclusive to Buddhas (Part 3)
Ch. 24 – Verses Offered in Praise
Ch. 25 – Teachings to Aid Mindfulness-of-the-Buddha Samādhi
Ch. 26 – The Analogy Chapter
Ch. 27 – A Summarizing Discussion of the Bodhisattva Practices
Ch. 28 – Distinctions in the 2nd Ground’s Courses of Karmic Action
Ch. 29 – Distinctions Pertaining to Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas
Ch. 30 – Distinctions Pertaining to the Great Vehicle
Ch. 31 – Guarding the Moral Precepts
Ch. 32 – An Explanation of the Dhūta Austerities
Ch. 33 – Aids to Gaining the Fruits of Śīla
Ch. 34 – In Praise of the Moral Precepts
Ch. 35 – The Karmic Rewards of the Moral Precepts
Translation Endnotes
Bibliography
Glossary
About the Translator
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Circa l’autore
Bhikshu Dharmamitra (ordination name ‘Heng Shou’ – 釋恆授) is a Chinese-tradition translator-monk and one of the earliest American disciples (since 1968) of the late Guiyang Ch’an patriarch, Dharma teacher, and pioneer of Buddhism in the West, the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (宣化上人). He has a total of at least 34 years in robes during two periods as a monastic (1969‒1975 & 1991 to the present).
Dharmamitra’s principal educational foundations as a translator of Sino-Buddhist Classical Chinese lie in four years of intensive monastic training and Chinese-language study of classic Mahāyāna texts in a small-group setting under Master Hsuan Hua (1968-1972), undergraduate Chinese language study at Portland State University, a year of intensive one-on-one Classical Chinese study at the Fu Jen University Language Center near Taipei, two years of course work at the University of Washington’s Department of Asian Languages and Literature (1988-90), and an additional three years of auditing graduate courses and seminars in Classical Chinese readings, again at UW’s Department of Asian Languages and Literature.
Since taking robes again under Master Hua in 1991, Dharmamitra has devoted his energies primarily to study and translation of classic Mahāyāna texts with a special interest in works by Ārya Nāgārjuna and related authors. To date, he has translated more than fifteen important texts comprising approximately 150 fascicles, including the 80-fascicle Avataṃsaka Sūtra (the ‘Flower Adornment Sutra’), Nāgārjuna’s 17-fascicle Daśabhūmika Vibhāśa (‘Treatise on the Ten Grounds’), and the Daśabhūmika Sūtra (the ‘Ten Grounds Sutra’), all of which are current or upcoming Kalavinka Press publications (www.kalavinka.org).
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