The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras
The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra; Tib. Tekpa Chenpö Do Dé Gyen; Wyl. mdo sde’i rgyan) — one of the Five Treatises of Maitreya.
Outline
The text has twenty-one chapters (le’u):
- Chapter One
- Establishing the Mahayana
- Refuge
- Gotra (rigs)
- Bodhicitta (sems bskyed)
- Accomplishment/Practice (sgrub pa)
- Suchness (de kho na nyid)
- Power (mthu)
- Complete Maturation (yongs su smin pa)
- Awakening (byang chub)
- Aspiration (mos pa)
- yongs su tshol ba
- Explication (bshad pa)
- Practice (sgrub pa)
- gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa
- thabs dang ldan pa’i las
- The paramitas and means of attraction (bsdu ba)
- mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa
- byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa
- Enlightened Qualities (yon tan)
- spyod pa dang mthar thug pa
Translations
- S. Levi, Mahāyāna Sūtrālaṅkāra. Exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yogācāra, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1911
- Asanga, Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Mahayanasutralamkara (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences), American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004
- Mahayana-Sutralankara (mdo sde’i rgyan), Maitreya – Asanga with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara, forthcoming translation