Darsanamarga Section Of Abhidharmasamuccaya And Its Interpretation By Tibetan Commentators

SR No.: 269632
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Author: L Schmithausen
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Language: English
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the tathatā.57 Such an interpretation is hardly justified, neither by the wording of the As nor by that of its source, the Viniscayasamgrahani. 58 Another example is Bu ston's explanation of the word dharma in the expression duḥkhe dharmajñānakşanti, where he takes it to indicate the
pecific and common features of the entities included in the Truth of Suffering] expounded in the Sūtras, viz. impermanence, etc. 59 This interpretation, though reconcilable with the Tibetan text of the As, 60 is at variance with the interpretation of the ASB , 61 which is almost certainly right in understanding dharma in this passage as "doctrinal texts (dealing with the Truth of Suffering)".
It is, however, other aspects of Bu ston's commentary which are more interesting.
Although Buston reproduces , 62 almost literally, the remarks of the ASBh on the makeshift character of all analytical treatment of the darśanamārga, he himself seems to take the analytical description in the AS much more seriously:
When explaining the detailed analysis (= fourth definition) of the darśanamārga, Bu ston points out that the statement of the AS63 that the first two phases of each set comprehend the object, i.e. the tathatā, 64 whilst the last two phases comprehend the subject, i.e. [the respectively preceding phases of] correct comprehension (yan dag pa'i ye śes, Samyagjñāna) 64 [itself], excludes [by its wording] both the theory that the darśanamārga does not have any finite entity as its objects as also the view of Abhya (Abhayākaragupta) who explains this statement of the AS in the sense of (comprehension of] the Essencelessness of
5 Bu ston 580,6f.: ... brda ste 'du ses bsal ba ste ma dmigs par gtogs (read rtogs)
pa dan (!) de béin gśegs pa'i chos de bžin ñid ses pa'o ll. 58 See n.30. 59 Bu ston 581,3: de'i dbań du byas pa'i chos mi rtag pa la sogs mdo sde las bstan pa
ran mtshan spyi mtshan rnams so II. 60 ASt 110b7: sdug bsnal gyi bden pa'i dban du byas pa'i chos bstan pa rnams so li. 61 ASBH 77,2: duhkhasatyadhikarika sūtradidharma , cp. also the Tibetan translation
(Si 69a8): sdug bsnal gyi (s) bden pa'i dban du byas pa' mdo la sogs pa'i chos ... 62 Bu ston 583,3ff. 63 AS 67,1f. (see n. 39). 64 Cp. ASBH 77,12f. 65 Bu ston 582,3f.: 'dis mthon lam chos can yul du mi byed zer ba bsal zin ... accord
ing to my colleague Tsultrim Phuntsog, chos can means kun rdzob bden pa (which would, in the present context, especially consist of samyagjñana in opposition to tathatā = chos nid).