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The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras (Skt. Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra; Tib. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་
མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་, Tekpa Chenpö Do Dé Gyen, Wyl. theg pa chen po'i mdo sde’i rgyan; Trad. Chin. 大乘莊嚴經論) — one of the Five Treatises of Maitreya. It is included among the so-called “Thirteen great texts”, which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Outline
The text has twenty-one chapters (Tib. ལེའུ་, le’u):
Tibetan
- Chapter One
- Establishing the Mahayana
- Gotra (Tib. རིགས་, rigs)
- Bodhicitta (Tib. སེམས་བསྐྱེད་, sems bskyed)
- Accomplishment/Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
- Suchness (Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་, de kho na nyid)
- Power (Tib. མཐུ་, mthu)
- Complete Maturation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པ་, yongs su smin pa)
- Awakening (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་, byang chub)
- Aspiration (Tib. མོས་པ་, mos pa)
- Thorough Investigation (Tib. ཡོངས་སུ་ཚོལ་བ་, yongs su tshol ba)
- Explication (Tib. བཤད་པ་, bshad pa)
- Practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་, sgrub pa)
- Subsequent Teaching of the Instructions (Tib. གདམས་ངག་རྗེས་སུ་བསྟན་པ་, gdams ngag rjes su bstan pa)
- Skillful Activity (Tib. ཐབས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལས་, thabs dang ldan pa’i las)
- The paramitas and means of attraction (Tib. བསྡུ་པ་, bsdu ba)
- Offering, Reliance, and Boundless Attitudes (Tib. མཆོད་པ་དང་བསྟེན་པ་དང་ཚད་མེད་པ་, mchod pa dang bsten pa dang tshad med pa)
- The [thirty-seven] Harmonies with Enlightenment (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཕྱོགས་དང་མཐུན་པ་, byang chub kyi phyogs dang mthun pa)
- Enlightened Qualities (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་, yon tan)
- Conduct and Consummation (Tib. སྤྱོད་པ་དང་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་, spyod pa dang mthar thug pa)
[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]
Tibetan Text
Commentaries
- Mipham Rinpoche, The Feast of Ambrosia of the Great Vehicle
Translations
English
- Asanga, Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature Mahayanasutralamkara (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences), American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004
- Asanga & Jamgön Mipham, A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle: An Explanation of the Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras, Maitreya's Mahāyānasūtrālaṅkāra with a commentary by Jamgön Mipham, Padmakara Translation Group (Shambhala, 2018)
- Maitreya, Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutras: Maitreya’s Mahayanasutralamkara with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Dharmachakra Translation Committee (Shambhala Publications, 2014)
French
- S. Levi, Mahāyāna Sūtrālaṅkāra. Exposé de la doctrine du grand véhicule selon le système Yogācāra (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1911)