The Seventeen Paṇḍitas of Nālandā
A Prayer to Kindle the Three Kinds of Faith
Addressed to the Seventeen Great Paṇḍitas of Glorious Nālandā
by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་བཞེད་ཐུགས་རྗེས་རབ་བསྐྲུན་པའི། །
dro la pen shyé tukjé rab trun pé
Perfectly arisen through the compassionate wish to benefit beings, Continue reading
Vasubandhu
Vasubandhu: Karikas On The Three Natures Trisvabhavakarika
trisvabhAvakArikA AcAryavasubandhukrtA nevArAksaralikhitA prAcInatApatrodgatA namo maNjuSriye kumArabhUtAya
The karikas on the three natures composed by Master Vasubandhu, written in Newari characters, coming from an old manuscript.
Homage to the Virgin Youth Manjusri
1 kalpitah paratantras ca parinispanna eva ca /
trayah svabhAvA dhIrAnAm gambhIram jneyam isyate //1//
It is admitted that the three natures, the imaginary, the dependent and the absolute one, are the profound object of the wise men’s knowledge.
The imagined, the other-dependent and
The consummate.
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Vasubandhu
by Khenpo Shenpen Nangwa
The Root Tantra of Mañjuśrī says:
Dwelling thereafter
Will be a brahmin in the south,
Whose name begins with Ba [Va],[1]
The foremost exponent of the Buddha’s teachings.
He will reside at the Arama Stūpa.
As a delightful reflection of the buddha
He will adorn everywhere,
As far as the limits of earth and ocean.
As this suggests, the great master Vasubandhu appeared in order to spread the teachings of Abhidharma. At a certain time, when the gong was struck at the great temple of Nālandā in the noble land [of India], it was heard by a non-Buddhist expert in grammar, who realized that the Buddhist teachings had become predominant. He led an army that set fire to many temples, as a result of which the Abhidharma teachings were largely consumed by flames. Continue reading
Three Jewels
In Praise of the Three Jewels
by Ācārya Vasubandhu
རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། ཏྲི་རཏྣ་སྟོ་ཏྲཾ།
In the language of India: Triratnastotra
བོད་སྐད་དུ། དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་གྱི་བསྟོད་པ།
In the language of Tibet: Könchok sum gyi töpa (dkon mchog gsum gyi bstod pa)
In the English language: In Praise of the Three Jewels
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
Homage to the Three Jewels!
དམིགས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ། །
mikmé chö kyi ku
To the referenceless dharmakāya, Continue reading