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The '''''Well Explained Reasoning''''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti''; Tib. རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་རིགས་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rnam par bshad pa'i rigs pa'')—a work by [[Vasubandhu]] that sets out the principles of exegesis or hermeneutics and teaches how to interpret and explain the content of a [[sutra]]. It has five chapters, and in the fourth Vasubandhu refutes the assertion that the [[Great Vehicle]]cannot be considered as Buddhism.<ref>Skilling, Peter. ''Vasubandhu and the Vyākhyāyukti Literature'', in the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'', Volume 23, Number 2, 2000, page 334-335</ref>
The '''''Well Explained Reasoning''''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti''; Tib. རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་རིགས་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rnam par bshad pa'i rigs pa'')—a work by [[Vasubandhu]] that sets out the principles of exegesis or hermeneutics and teaches how to interpret and explain the content of a [[sutra]]. It has five chapters, and in the fourth Vasubandhu refutes the assertion that the [[Great Vehicle]] cannot be considered as Buddhism.<ref>Skilling, Peter. ''Vasubandhu and the Vyākhyāyukti Literature'', in the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'', Volume 23, Number 2, 2000, page 334-335</ref>


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The Well Explained Reasoning (Skt. Vyākhyāyukti; Tib. རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་རིགས་པ་, Wyl. rnam par bshad pa'i rigs pa)—a work by Vasubandhu that sets out the principles of exegesis or hermeneutics and teaches how to interpret and explain the content of a sutra. It has five chapters, and in the fourth Vasubandhu refutes the assertion that the Great Vehicle cannot be considered as Buddhism.[1]

References

  1. Skilling, Peter. Vasubandhu and the Vyākhyāyukti Literature, in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Volume 23, Number 2, 2000, page 334-335

Alternative Translations

  • Principles of Elucidation (Ron Garry)
  • Reasoned Exposition (Dharmachakra Translation Committee)
  • Rational System of Exposition (Gyurme Dorje)
  • Principles of Exegesis (Peter Skilling)

Further Reading

  • Skilling, Peter. Vasubandhu and the Vyākhyāyukti Literature, in the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Volume 23, Number 2, 2000.
  • Cabezon, Jose Ignacio. Vasubandhu's Vyākhyāyukti on the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna Sūtras, in Timm, Jeffrey R, Texts in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia. SUNY Press, 1992.