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[[Image:Haribhadra.JPG|thumb|[[Haribhadra]], author of the most famous commentary on the ''Abhisamayalankara'']]
'''Abhisamayalankara''' (Skt. ''Abhisamayālaṃkāra''; Tib. [[མངོན་རྟོགས་རྒྱན་]], ''Ngöntok Gyen'', [[Wyl.]] ''mngon rtogs rgyan''; Trad. Chin. 現觀莊嚴論), '''''The Ornament of Clear Realization''''' — one of the [[Five Treatises of Maitreya|five treatises]] that were directly revealed to [[Asanga]] by the future Buddha [[Maitreya]] in 4th century. It is a commentary on the hidden meaning of the [[Prajñaparamita]] [[Sutra]]s, describing the entire journey of the [[bodhisattva]], from the generation of [[bodhichitta]] to the attainment of full [[omniscience]]. It is included among the so-called "[[Thirteen great texts]]", which form the core of the curriculum in most [[shedra]]s and on which [[Khenpo Shenga]] provided commentaries.

[[Image:Prajnaparamita.jpg|thumb|[[Prajñaparamita]], mother of all the buddhas]]
The text is divided into [[eight topics]]:<br>
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These eight topics are further divided into [[seventy points]].

==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]==
===Definition of [[Bodhichitta]]===
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===Not a thing to be removed, nothing to be added===
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==Text==
The Tibetan translation of the text can be found in the Dergé [[Tengyur]], [[Toh]] 3786.
*{{SL|88104a50-62b7-4fb4-a541-9fb1edecd283|Sakya Library}}

==Commentaries==
===Indian===
In his commentary on the Abhisamayalankara [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says that among the texts in the Tibetan [[Tengyur]] related to the [[prajnaparamita]], there are [[Twenty-one Indian Commentaries|twenty-one Indian commentaries]] on the Ornament of Clear Realization. 

*1. [[Arya Vimuktisena]], ''Illuminating the 25,000 Verses'' (Skt. ''abhisamayālaṅkārakārikāvārttika'', Tib. ཉི་ཁྲི་སྣང་བ་, ''nyi khri snang ba'', or more fully 
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**English translation: ''Commentary for the Ornament (abhisamayālaṅkāra vṛtti'', in ''Abhisamayalamkara with Vritti by Arya Vimuktisena and Aloka by Haribhadra'', translated by Gareth Sparham, 2005.
*2. [[Bhadanta Vimuktisena]], ''Commentary on the 25,000'', ('' 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i rnam par 'grel pa'')
*3. [[Smirtijnana]], ''Teaching on the Three Renowned ‘Mother’ Scriptures in Conformity with the Eight Points'' ('' 'bum dang nyi khri lnga stong pa dang khri brgyad stong pa gsum don mthun par mngon rtogs brgyad du bstan pa'')
*4. [[Haribhadra]], ''Eight Chapters on the 25,000'', (''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa stong phrag nyi shu lnga pa''). This text comprises three volumes in the Tengyur.
*5. [[Haribhadra]], ''Light Ornament: A Great Commentary on the 8,000 Verses'' ('' 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i bshad pa mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi snang ba'')
**English translation: ''Light for the Ornament: An Explanation of the Perfection of Wisdom (Abhisamayālaṃkārā lokā prajñā pāramitā vyākhyā)'', in ''Abhisamayalamkara with Vritti by Arya Vimuktisena and Aloka by Haribhadra'', translated by Gareth Sparham, 2005.
*6. [[Haribhadra]], ''Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Condensed Sūtra'' (''bcom ldan 'das yon tan rin po che sdud pa'i tshigs su bcad pa'i dka' 'grel'')
*7. [[Haribhadra]], ''Illuminating the Meaning'', ''[[Sphutartha]]'' (Skt. ''Sphuṭārthā''; Tib. འགྲེལ་པ་དོན་གསལ་, Wyl. ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>grel pa don gsal'', or more fully ''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i 'grel pa'').
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*8. [[Dharmakirti of Suvarnadvipa]], ''Light on the Difficult-to-Comprehend'' (''mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i 'grel pa rtogs par dka' ba'i snang ba zhes bya ba'i 'grel bshad''), which is a sub-commentary on Haribhadra's [[Sphutartha]].
*9. [[Dharmamitra]], '' Explanatory Commentary Clarifying the Words'' (Skt. ''Abhisamayālaṅkāra kārikā prajñā pāramitopadeśa śāstra ṭīkā prasphuṭa padā'', Tib. ''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i 'grel bshad tshig rab tu gsal ba''), which is also a sub-commentary on Haribhadra's [[Sphutartha]].
*10. [[Buddha Shri Jnana]], ''Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Condensed Sūtra'' (''sdud pa tshigs su bcad pa'i dka' 'grel'')
*11. [[Ratnakirti]], ''kīrtikalā'' (Skt. ''Abhisamayālaṅkāra vṛtti kīrtikalā'', Tib. ''mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi 'grel pa grags pa'i cha'')
*12. [[Kashmiri Buddha Shri Jnana]], ''Rosary of Liberating Wisdom'' (''mngon rtogs rgyan gyi 'grel pa shes rab sgron ma'i phreng ba'')
*13. [[Ratnakarashanti]], ''Pure 25,000'' (''mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i 'grel pa dag ldan'')
*14. [[Kashmiri Dharma Shri]], ''Explanation of the 100,000'' (''stong phrag brgya pa'i rnam par bshad pa'')
*15. [[Ratnakarashanti]] ''Supreme Essence'' ('' 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i dka' 'grel snying po mchog'')
*16. [[Atisha]], ''Lamp of Essential Meaning'', (''shes rabs kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i don bsdus sgron ma'')
*17. [[Abhayakaragupta]], ''Moonlight of Points'' (Skt. ''Aṣṭa sāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā vṛtti marmakaumudī'', '' 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i 'grel pa gnad kyi zla ba'i 'od'')
*18. [[Kashmiri Dharma Shri]], ''Key to the Treasury of Transcendent Wisdom'' (''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i mdzod kyi lde mig'')
*19. [[Prajnakaramati]], ''Essential Meaning'' (''mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi 'grel pa'i bsdus don''), which is also a sub-commentary on Haribhadra's [[Sphutartha]].
*20. [[Kumara Shri Bhadra]], ''Essential Meaning'' ((Skt. ''Prajñā pāramitā piṇḍārtha'', Tib. ''shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i don bsdus pa'')
*21. Mipham Rinpoche gives the text as ''Düpé Damngak'' (''sdud pa'i gdams ngag''), but Khenpo Tsondru says it is [[Abhayakaragupta]]'s Munimatālaṅkāra (Tib. thub pa'i dgongs pa'i rgyan, [[Toh]] 3903). The later text is, unlike all the other twenty texts, not found in the prajnaparamita section of the Tengyur but the madhyamaka section.

===Tibetan===
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*[[Tsongkhapa]], ''Golden Garland of Eloquence ''(ལེགས་བཤད་གསེར་ཕྲེང་, ''legs bshad gser phreng)'' (translated by Gareth Sparham, Jain Publishing, 2008)
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*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''Overview''
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*[[Pöpa Tulku]], ''The Oral Transmission of the Invincible Maitreya'' and ''An Adornment to the Vision of the Invincible Maitreya''
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*[[Amdo Geshe Jampal Rolwé Lodrö]], ''The Essence of an Ocean of Fine Explanation''
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*[[Mipham Rinpoche]] ཤེར་ཕྱིན་མངོན་རྟོགས་རྒྱན་གྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་པུཎྜ་རི་ཀའི་དོ་ཤལ།, ''sher phyin mngon rtogs rgyan gyi mchan 'grel puN+Da ri ka'i do shal''
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==Translations==
*''Abhisamayalankara'', Edward Conze (Rome: Is.M.E.O., 1954).
*''Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume One'', translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2011)
*''Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume Two'', translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2011)
*''Groundless Paths:  The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition'', translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2012)
*''Ornament of Clear Realization: A Commentary on the Prajnaparamita of Maitreya'', [[Thrangu Rinpoche]] (Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal, 2004)
*''Abhisamayalankara'' (''mngon rtogs rgyan''), Maitreya – Asanga with commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara translation group, forthcoming

==References==
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==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*[[Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche]] – [[Rigpa Shedra]] West, [[Dzogchen Beara]], 2003
*[[Dzogchen Rinpoche]] – Rigpa Shedra West, Dzogchen Beara, 2004
*Khenpo Jampal Dorje – Rigpa Shedra West, [[Lerab Ling]], 2005
*[[Khenpo Sönam Tobden]] - Rigpa Shedra East, 4 January to 30 April 2011
*Lopön Penpo Tsering, Rigpa Shedra East, 2017

==Further Reading==
*John Makransky, ''Buddhahood embodied: sources of controversy in India and Tibet'', New York: SUNY, 1997
*James B. Apple, ''Stairway to Nirvana: A Study of the Twenty Samghas Based on the Works of Tsong kha pa'', SUNY, 2008
*James B. Apple, ''Contributions to the Development and Classification of Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Centuries'', JIATS, no. 5 (December 2009), [http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/05/apple/ available online here]

==Internal Links==
*[[Twenty-one Indian Commentaries]]
*[[Twenty Sanghas]]

==External Links==
* {{LH|topics/prajnaparamita/prologue-abhisamayalankara-commentary-khenpo-shenga|''Prologue to Abhisamayalankara Commentary'' by Khenchen Shenga}}
* {{LH|tibetan-masters/khenpo-tsondru/seventy-points-abhisamayalankara|''The 70 Points of the Abhisamayalankara'' by Khenpo Tsöndrü}}
* {{LH|topics/prajnaparamita|Prajnaparamita Series on Lotsawa House}}
*[http://uma-tibet.org/haa/LO_001.php Audio Archives of Oral commentary on Jamyang Shaypa's "Eloquent Presentation of the Eight Categories and Seventy Topics" by Denma Locho Rinpoche translated by Jeffrey Hopkins]

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