Darsanamarga Section Of Abhidharmasamuccaya And Its Interpretation By Tibetan Commentators

SR No.: 269632
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L Schmithausen
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Total Pages: 17
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Darśanamārga section of the Abhidharmasamuccaya
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by Bu ston, 88 seems to preclude an application to the darśanamārga of the śrävakas, and in fact Bu ston himself, in a later passage, 89 makes use of it in order to characterize the Full Comprehension (abhisamaya, mnon rtogs) of the Bodhisattvas as distinct from that of the śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas. But he is silent in the present passage. Gyal tshab rje, 90 on the other hand, expressly states that this definition is specific (thun mon mayin pa), i.e. refers to Bodhisattvas only. A similar view is indicated by Bo don, 91 whereas sākya mchog ldan 92 tries to render this definition, too, applicable to both vehicles by distinguishing two sets of imagined object and subject - one referring to persons and the other to dharmas - and by assigning insight into the non-existence of the first set to the Hinayānist darśanamārga, while insight into the non-existence of the second set is achieved [only] by the Mahāyānist darśanamārga.
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I hope it has become clear from my exposition how the commentaries - Indian as well as Tibetan - try to draw doctrinal consistency out of the heterogeneous materials merely juxtaposed in the As. One could perhaps say that they explicitly and legitimately accomplish a task necessarily arising out of that very juxtaposition. But it would be more risky to assert that also the specific form of their solutions is already implied in the basic text. Especially, the elements from the tradition of the Abhisamayālankāra brought into play by Bu ston are definitely alien to the basic text and its tradition. But this does not, of course, mean that his attempt at doctrinal harmonization of the As material (with itself but also with another tradition) is not highly interesting in its own
88 Bu ston 580,5: dmiqsbya gzun ba dan_dmigs byed 'dzin pa med par mňam_pas de bzin
ñid dan mňam par ses pa'an de yin tel. 89 Bu ston 691,3f.: sa rab dga' (read: dgar?) ... dmigs bya dmigs byed mñam nid du śes
pa'i ye śes thob ste. 90 rGyal tshab 154b5: thun mon min pa'i dban du byas na gzun 'dzin rdzas tha dad kyis
ston par rtogs pa'i 'bden pa mnon par rtogs pa'o ll. Bo don 662,2f.: ñan thos pa* ... dmigs bya dmigs byed mñam ñid du ses pa'i śes rab... med pa'i phyir ... *Read la. 92 sākya 220,78. gzun 'dzin kun brtags la'an gnis gñis te gan zag gi dban du byas
pa'i gzun 'dzin dan chos kyi dban du byas pa'i gzun 'dzin no ll dman pa'i mthon lam gyis dan po gnis dan | theg chen mthon lam gyis phyi ma gñis med par mthon ba'o ll.