Authorship of the RGV
- This table comes from Chapter 1 of Kazuo Kano's Ph. D. Dissertation, rNgog Blo‐ldan‐shes‐rabʹs Summary of the Ratnagotravibhāga: The First Tibetan Commentary on a Crucial Source for the Buddha‐nature Doctrine, University of Hamburg, 2006.
Authorship of the RGV | |||||||||
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basic verse | comm. verse | prose comm. | Chinese tradition (ca. 511) | Sāramati | |||||
Central Asia (ca. late 8th cent.) | Maitreya | (not mentioned) | |||||||
Indian tradition (early 11th cent.) | Maitreya | ||||||||
Tibetan tradition (late 11th cent.) | Maitreya | Asaṅga | |||||||
rNgog's commentary (late 11th cent.) | Maitreya | Asaṅga(?) | |||||||
(modern scholars) | |||||||||
Obermiller 1931 | Maitreya | Asaṅga | |||||||
Tsukinowa 1936 | Sāramati | Maitreya | Asaṅga | ||||||
Johnston 1950 | Sthiramati | ||||||||
Frauwallner 1956; Ui 1959 | Sāramati | ||||||||
Nakamura 1961 | Sāramati | Vasubandhu | |||||||
Takasaki 1966 | (Maitreya ?) | Sāramati | |||||||
Seyfort Ruegg 1969 | Maitreya = Sāramati | Asaṅga |
For the positions of modern scholars, see Tsukinowa 1936, Johnston 1950:xi, Frauwallner 1956:255, Ui 1959:89-97, Nakamura 1961, Takasaki 1966:6-9, Seyfort Ruegg 1969:46, Takasaki 1974:3-13, Takasaki 1989:392-397, Takasaki 1999:3-7. Takasaki (1999:15-18) concisely presents previous studies on the authorship of the RGV.