Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön | 2001 | 941,039 words

This page describes “understanding the conditions (pratyaya)” 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.

Part 1 - Understanding the Conditions (pratyaya)

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Conditions and Causes: Preliminary note

Conditions note (1): The system in the canonical sūtras

Conditions note (2): The system in the Abhidharma of the Sarvāstivādins

Conditions note (3): The system in the Madhyamaka

Conditions note (4): The system in the Great Prajñāpāramitāsūtras

Conditions note (5): The system according to the Traité

I. The four conditions (pratyaya) and the six causes (hetu)

II. Objections against the efficacy of the conditions

III. The opinion of the traité in regard to causality

III.a Causality according to the Abhidharma

III.b Causality according to the Perfection of Wisdom

Sūtra (cf. Śatasāhasrikā, p. 8–0, l. 4–6). – The bodhisattva-mahāsattva who wishes to understand the causal condition, the immediately preceding condition, the object condition and the dominant condition of all dharmas should practice the perfection of wisdom (Sarvadharmāṇāṃ hetusamanantarālambanādhipatyayān avaboddhukāmena bodhisattvena mahāsattvena prajñāpāramitāyāṃ śikṣitavyam).

Śāstra. –

Last Updated: 28 September, 2019