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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> | ||
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
*'''One Hundred Extracts from the Sūtras for the Principles of Exegesis''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti-sūtra-khaṇḍaśata''). A collection of 105 sūtra passages that serve as Vasubandhu's source material. | *'''One Hundred Extracts from the Sūtras for the Principles of Exegesis''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti-sūtra-khaṇḍaśata''). A collection of 105 sūtra passages that serve as Vasubandhu's source material. | ||
*'''Commentary on the Principles of Exegesis''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti-ṭīkā'') by Guṇamati (Tib. [[ཡོན་ཏན་བློ་གྲོས་]]) (5th century C.E.). | *'''Commentary on the Principles of Exegesis''' (Skt. ''Vyākhyāyukti-ṭīkā''; Wyl ''rnam par bshad pa rigs pa'i bshad pa'') by Guṇamati (Tib. [[ཡོན་ཏན་བློ་གྲོས་]]) (5th century C.E.). | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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*Skilling, Peter. ''Vasubandhu and the Vyākhyāyukti Literature'', in the ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'', Volume 23, Number 2, 2000. | *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. | *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. | ||
*Verhagen, Peter C.''Studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Hermeneutics (4): The Vyākhyāyukti of Vasubandhu'' Journal Asiatique 293, no. 2 (2005): 559–602. | |||
[[Category: Texts]] | [[Category: Texts]] | ||
[[Category: Canon]] | [[Category: Canon]] | ||
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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]
Commentaries
- One Hundred Extracts from the Sūtras for the Principles of Exegesis (Skt. Vyākhyāyukti-sūtra-khaṇḍaśata). A collection of 105 sūtra passages that serve as Vasubandhu's source material.
- Commentary on the Principles of Exegesis (Skt. Vyākhyāyukti-ṭīkā; Wyl rnam par bshad pa rigs pa'i bshad pa) by Guṇamati (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་བློ་གྲོས་) (5th century C.E.).
References
- ↑ 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.
- Verhagen, Peter C.Studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Hermeneutics (4): The Vyākhyāyukti of Vasubandhu Journal Asiatique 293, no. 2 (2005): 559–602.