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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 940,961 words

This page describes “recollection of the dharma (dharmanusmriti)” as written by Nagarjuna in his Maha-prajnaparamita-sastra (lit. “the treatise on the great virtue of wisdom”) in the 2nd century. This book, written in five volumes, represents an encyclopedia on Buddhism as well as a commentary on the Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita.

II. Recollection of the Dharma (dharmānusmṛti)

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II.1. Dharma skillfully presented
II.2. Dharma, obtaining its retribution in the present lifetime (saṃdṛṣṭika)
The story of Jambuka
II.3. Dharma without torment of burning (nirjvara)
II.4. The Dharma is independent of time (akālika)
II.5. Dharma leading to the good place (aupanayika)
II.6. Dharma of unhindered penetration
II.7. Other qualities of the Buddhist Dharma

The Buddha said: “The yogin should recollect the Dharma, skillfully presented, obtaining its retribution in the present lifetime (sāṃdṛṣṭika) without fear of burning (nirjvara),[1] independent of time (akālika), leading to the good place (aupanāyika), the penetration into which is unhindered.”[2]

Footnotes and references:

1.

In place of tche-nao, read je-nao, as in the following lines.

2.

Here the Traité is taking liberties with the canonical formula cited in the preliminary note to this present chapter.