Madhyanta-vibhaga-karika

Madhyāntavibhāga (Tib. dbus mtha ' rnam ' byed; " distinction the middle of the extremes " ) is one of the so-called five books of Maitreya. Together with his comments, it is one of the masterpieces of Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy, that is, the Vijnanavada School ( Yogacara school) of Northern Buddhism. It is in the Tibetan tradition, Asanga (also see Maitreya ) attributed, in other traditions Maitreyanātha.

Early comments submitted by Vasubandhu ( the Younger; 400-480 ) and Acarya Sthiramati.

It is one of the so-called Thirteen Great texts that form a part of most Shedra curricula and to which Khenpo Shenga posted comments.

The text was translated by Schtscherbatskoi from Sanskrit and from the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, together with two commentaries by Ju Mipham and Khenpo Shenga from Tibetan into English.

Content

The work rejects the general relativism of Vijnapti - Matrata - Sidhhi of Acarya Vasubandhu and pluralism of the Hinayana followers and founded his own system of spiritual monism. The Vijnanavada school of Buddhism represents the latest and last form of this religion, that form in which, after they had transformed the Indian philosophy, leaving the Indian soil of their origin and over almost the entire Asian continent to Japan in the East, and Asia Minor propagates in the west where it merges with Gnosticism.

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The text has five chapters:

Translations

• Madhyānta - Vibhanga: discourse on discrimination in between middle and extreme / ascribed to Boghisattva Maitreya and commented on by Vasubandhu and Sthiramati. Transl. from the Sanscrit by Th Stcherbatsky; Moscow: Acad. of Sciences of USSR Press, 1936 # also Soviet Indology Series, no 5; Indian Studies. 1971
• Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya 's Madhyantavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007

Comments

• Vasubandhu, Madhyāntavibhāga - Bhasya
• Sthiramati, Madhyāntavibhāga - Tika
• Khenpo Shenga
• Ju Mipham