A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahāyoga Tantra and Its Commentary

Cantwell, Cathy (著); Mayer, Robert (著)

著者

Cantwell, Cathy (著) ; Mayer, Robert (著)

出版年月日

2012.08.28

ページ

375

出版者

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

出版サイト

https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/

出版地

Wien, Austria [維也納, 奧地利]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Print (softcover, with CD)
eBook, Digital, released on 08.11.2012

キーワード

Asienforschung; Lotus Garland Synopsis; Mahayoga Tantra; Noble Noose of Methods

抄録

The inspiration for this volume is one of the most celebrated documents retrieved from the ancient cave library in Dunhuang: a tantric commentary in 85 folios together with its root text, and prolific marginal annotations that are not found elsewhere. It provides our most reliable and comprehensive window into the ritual and doctrinal world of the early Nyingmapa. Among much else, it offers an unparalleled early representation of Padmasambhava, a detailed presentation of fundamental Nyingma tantric views later endorsed by Rongzom and Longchenpa, and citations attributed to numerous other Nyingma tantras. A good half of the book is devoted to editorial efforts, including a discussion of how they can be applied to Tibetan literature. The Dunhuang manuscript itself is shown to be defective in several respects, including accidental loss of chapters, while centuries of scribal mishaps have deprived the commentary as traditionally transmitted of a third of its contents. Even the root text has become distorted in most popular canonical editions. By collating all twenty-one extant witnesses drawn from Dunhuang, the Tenjurs, Kanjurs both mainstream and local, and the various Ancient Tantra Collections, stemmatic analysis establishes their sometimes unexpected historical relationships. Armed with that understanding, an accurate reconstruction of the contours of both texts becomes possible for the first time in many centuries, and numerous readings of the root text earlier even than the Dunhuang ms can be recovered.

Acknowledgments vii
Note on Transliteration of Tibetan ix
Abbreviations and List of Sigla used in the Editions xi

Introduction
Introducing the Textual Sources, and their Significance 1
The Contents of the Thabs zhags and their Significance for the Historical Study of the rNying ma pa 3
The Dunhuang Manuscript as a valuable source from the 'Time of Fragments' 6
A Summary of the Salient Points of our work on the Thabs zhags Textual Tradition 10
Methodological Issues in the Study of the Thabs zhags Textual Transmissions 13
The Ancient Tantra Collection (NGB) 14
Textual Obscurity and Scribal Corruption in the extant Ancient Tantra Collection 15
Increasing the usability of the Ancient Tantra Collection texts 16
How do we edit Ancient Tantra Collection texts? Can we stemmatise them?
How do we account for their variations? 18
Concluding Reflections on the variations in TZ 20

Textual Analysis
a) The Editions of the Root Text and Commentary 26
b) Features of the Dunhuang Manuscript 32
c) Examination and Assessment of the Differing Boundaries of TZ in Different Editions 35
d) The Stemma of the Root Text 43
e) A Summary of The Commentary on A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis ('Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdus pa'i 'grel pa) 68
f) The "Citations" or Attributions of the Teachings in the Thabs zhags Commentary to other Tantras 84

Padmasambhava, the Thabs zhags and its Commentary
Padmasambhava's Pith Instructions on the Garland of Views 87
The Evidence from the Commentary and its Dunhuang witness 91

Introduction to the Editions of the 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdus pa and its Commentary 99
The Presentation of the Critical Edition of TZ 100
The Presentation of the Edition of TZComm 101

Critical Edition of the Root Text (TZ), The 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdus pa 103

Edition of the Commentary (TZComm), The 'Phags pa thabs kyi zhags pa pad ma 'phreng gi don bsdus pa'i 'grel pa 229

Appendix
The Deities of the Peaceful Maṇḍala in the Thabs zhags tradition 349
The Deities of the Wrathful Maṇḍala in the Thabs zhags tradition 358
Bibliography 363
Index 372
CD Images of the Dunhuang Manuscript IOL Tib J 321 from the Stein Collection in London

ISBN

9783700172734 (pbc)

ISRC

9783700173250 (ebook)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1553/0x002c7e77

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