]> 2026-10-12T00:48:39-04:00 Books/The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature 0 en No Maitreya;Asaṅga;Vasubandhu <div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-faff9eadd6690d17END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Maitreya|Maitreya]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-b3fcb92c7881597fEND_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-73ee86532583f68fEND_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Asanga|Asanga]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-1368ae974714a54aEND_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-d663b5bdf74b68e8END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Vasubandhu|Vasubandhu]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-b531103fc17bc302END_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-2502d76fb1eb65a1END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Jamspal, L.|Lozang Jamspal]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-746f3db5fac83a9cEND_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-71d5bfaaa4a83ba3END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Clark, R.|Robert W. Clark]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-68130f35e1145e4bEND_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-69086e762ff168ebEND_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Wilson, Joe|Joe Wilson]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-01c23864885d7060END_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-76e68708aac665c9END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Zwilling, L.|Leonard Zwilling]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-7b7ae6eab6520c62END_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-1fc7dfb2421a2204END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Sweet, M.|Michael Sweet]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-5f0fd41a9209233aEND_WIDGET </div><div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-bbd847f172a38f9cEND_WIDGET</div> <div>[[Thurman, R.|Robert Thurman]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-e84e1d0da79e6d2cEND_WIDGET </div> *<span> Preface</span><span>vii</span> *<span> Introduction</span><span>xiii</span> **<span> 1. The World of the Literature</span><span>xiii</span> **<span> 2. The Author of the Literature</span><span>xvi</span> ***<span> Maitreyanatha and Aryasanga</span><span>xvi</span> ***<span> Maitreyanatha, knower of import (''arthajño'')</span><span>xxiv</span> ****<span> Philosophical and Hermeneutical Level</span><span>xxv</span> ****<span> Meditational and Realizational Level</span><span>xxix</span> ****<span> Actualization and Socio-historical Level</span><span>xxxi</span> **<span> 3. The Source Texts of the Literature</span><span>xxxiii</span> **<span> 4. The Philosophy of the Literature</span><span>xxxix</span> *Translation **<span> Prologue</span><span>1</span> **<span> I. The Authenticity of the Universal Vehicle</span><span>7</span> **<span> II. Going For Refuge</span><span>17</span> **<span> III. The Spiritual Gene</span><span>23</span> **<span> IV. Conception of the Spirit of Enlightenment</span><span>31</span> **<span> V. Practice</span><span>43</span> **<span> VI. Thatness</span><span>49</span> **<span> VII. Power</span><span>55</span> **<span> VIII. Evolutionary Maturity</span><span>61</span> **<span> IX. Enlightenment</span><span>73</span> **<span> X. Faith</span><span>105</span> **<span> XI. Investigation of the Dharma</span><span>111</span> **<span> XII. Teaching the Dharma</span><span>153</span> **<span> XIII. Practice</span><span>165</span> **<span> XIV. Precept and Instruction</span><span>175</span> **<span> XV. Action Endowed with Liberative Art</span><span>189</span> **<span> XVI. The Transcendences</span><span>191</span> **<span> XVII. Worship, Service, and the Immeasurables</span><span>221</span> **<span> XVIII. The Accessories of Enlightenment</span><span>245</span> **<span> XIX. Excellences</span><span>293</span> **<span> XX. Practice</span><span>319</span> **<span> XXI. Epilogue - Culmination</span><span>335</span> *<span> Abbreviations</span><span>345</span> *<span> Bibliography</span><span>349</span> *<span> Indexes to the Translation</span><span>355</span> Academic true IV false Advanced Book The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Jamspal, L., R. Clark, J. Wilson, L. Zwilling, M. Sweet, and R. Thurman, trans. ''The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature'' (''Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra''). By Maitreyanātha/Āryāsaṅga. Together with its ''Commentary'' (''Bhāṣya'') by Vasubandhu. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies, and Tibet House US, 2004. https://archive.org/details/mahayanasutralamkarabyaryansanghatheuniversalvehiclediscourseliteraturebhashyaof_902_Y/mode/2up. #[[Maitreya]] ([[བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་]]) and [[Asaṅga]]: [[mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārakārikā]] ([[theg pa chen po mdo sde'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i tshig le'ur byas pa]], [[ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་]]). (D 4020) [[sems tsam]], phi 1b1-39a4. In [[bstan 'gyur (sde dge)]], Vol. 123: 1-78. Delhi: [[delhi karmapae choedhey, gyalwae sungrab partun khang]], 1982-1985. [[File:Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg|class=bdrc-button|x40px|link=http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/W23703]] [http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=878baea5cb17ca80aa4d58c02fcb65f3&enc=sanskrit_romanized_author&coll=tengyur Columbia AIBS] #[[Vasubandhu]] ([[དབྱིག་གཉེན་]]): [[sūtrālaṃkārabhāṣya]] ([[mdo sde'i rgyan gyi bshad pa]], [[མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་བཤད་པ་]], The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature). (D 4026) [[sems tsam]], phi 129b1-260a7. In [[bstan 'gyur (sde dge)]], Vol. 123: 258-519. Delhi: [[delhi karmapae choedhey, gyalwae sungrab partun khang]], 1982-1985. [[File:Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg|class=bdrc-button|x40px|link=http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/W23703]] [http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=409cf1b2b739578a258eea0cd799a64d&enc=sanskrit_romanized_author&coll=tengyur Columbia AIBS] The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (''Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra'') was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyanātha to Āryā Āsaṅga, the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept. The most foundational of the set of the famous ''Five Teachings of Maitreya'', the ''Discourse Literature'' is considered the wellspring of what the Tibetans call the "magnificent deeds trend of the path," the compassion side, which balances the "profound view trend of the path," the wisdom side. The Discourse Literature is also considered to be metaphysically aligned with and foundational for the Idealist (''Vijñānavādin'') school of Mahāyāna thought. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese by Lobsang Jamspal, Robert Thurman, and the AIBS team, the present work contains a fully annotated, critical English rendition of the Discourse Literature along with its commentary (''bhāṣya'') by Āsaṅga’s brother, Vasubandhu. It also includes an introduction covering essential historical and philosophical topics, a bibliography, and a detailed index. This long-awaited work is the founding cornerstone of the AIBS ''Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences'' series. (Source: [http://aibs.columbia.edu/books.html AIBS]) Nagao, G.;Thurman, R.;Yarnall, T. false The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature: Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra Jamspal, L., R. Clark, J. Wilson, L. Zwilling, M. Sweet, and R. Thurman, trans. ''The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature'' (''Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra''). By Maitreyanātha/Āryāsaṅga. Together with its ''Commentary'' (''Bhāṣya'') by Vasubandhu. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies, and Tibet House US, 2004. https://archive.org/details/mahayanasutralamkarabyaryansanghatheuniversalvehiclediscourseliteraturebhashyaof_902_Y/mode/2up.;The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature;Maitreya;བྱམས་པ་;byams pa;'phags pa byams pa;byams pa'i mgon po;mgon po byams pa;ma pham pa;འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ་;བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་;མགོན་པོ་བྱམས་པ་;མ་ཕམ་པ་;Ajita; Asaṅga;ཐོགས་མེད་;thogs med;slob dpon thogs med;སློབ་དཔོན་ཐོགས་མེད་;Āryāsaṅga;Vasubandhu;དབྱིག་གཉེན་;dbyig gnyen;slob dpon dbyig gnyen;སློབ་དཔོན་དབྱིག་གཉེན་;Robert Thurman;Lozang Jamspal;Robert W. Clark;Joe Wilson;Leonard Zwilling;Michael Sweet;The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature: Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra;Maitreya;Vasubandhu true The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature-001.jpg Maitreya Asaṅga Vasubandhu Thurman, R. Jamspal, L. Clark, R. Wilson, Joe Zwilling, L. Sweet, M. AIBS Translation Team Nagao, G. Yarnall, T. 2004 Translations The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (''Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra'') was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyanātha to Āryā Āsaṅga, the fourth-century Indian Buddhist scholar-adept. The most foundational of the set of the famous ''Five Teachings of Maitreya'', the ''Discourse Literature'' is considered the wellspring of what the Tibetans call the "magnificent deeds trend of the path," the compassion side, which balances the "profound view trend of the path," the wisdom side. The Discourse Literature is also considered to be metaphysically aligned with and foundational for the Idealist (''Vijñānavādin'') school of Mahāyāna thought. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese by Lobsang Jamspal, Robert Thurman, and the AIBS team, the present work contains a fully annotated, critical English rendition of the Discourse Literature along with its commentary (''bhāṣya'') by Āsaṅga’s brother, Vasubandhu. It also includes an introduction covering essential historical and philosophical topics, a bibliography, and a detailed index. This long-awaited work is the founding cornerstone of the AIBS ''Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences'' series. 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