Luis Gómez (1943-2017), esteemed scholar of Buddhism, had a long career in Buddhist studies and translation. From 1973 to 2009 he taught at the University of Michigan, where he founded the PhD program in Buddhist Studies and trained many scholars now prominent in the field. Later, as academic director of the Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, he helped establish the Buddhist Translators Workbench to translate Sanskrit terms into English. He also held the position of Profesor Investigador at El Colegio de México. Among his many influential works are definitive studies on the Sukhavativyuha sutras, published as The Land of Bliss: The Paradise of the Buddha of Measureless Light, the Bodhicaryavatara, including an English translation in the Norton Anthology of World Religions, and Kamalasila's Bhavanakrama.
摘要
In 1999, a Sanskrit version of the Vimalakirtinirdesa, long thought lost, was discovered in the Potala Palace in Lhasa by a team of scholars from Taisho University in Japan, who then presented it to the world in a series of landmark publications. Previous English renderings of this classic Mahayana text had been based on Chinese or Tibetan translations and not the Indian Sanskrit. Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages sponsored a three-week workshop on the newly discovered text in 2010, led by five eminent scholars. At the end of the workshop, the decision was made to prepare a full translation. Building on the initial efforts of workshop participants and working closely with Luis Gomez before he passed away, Paul Harrison, the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, has carried the English translation to completion. The result is a careful and scholarly treatment of this enduring text by two dedicated interpreters and translators of Buddhist literature. Elegantly translated and easily readable, this book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of this playful and complex text for English readers
目次
Introduction to the Translation ix Abbreviations and Works Consulted xxxix Translation Chapter 1 In the Beginning: The Purification of Buddha-domains 3 Chapter 2 Inconceivable Mastery of Stratagem 17 Chapter 3 Dispatching the Advanced Disciples and Bodhisattvas Becomes an Issue 23 Chapter 4 A Sick Man is Consoled 49 Chapter 5 The State of Inconceivable Freedom is Revealed 61 Chapter 6 The Goddess 69 Chapter 7 The Lineage of the Realized Ones 81 Chapter 8 Entering into the Gateway of the Truth of Non-duality 93 Chapter 9 A Phantom Delivers a Meal 101 Chapter 10 The Gift of the Teaching Named "Ending and Not Ending" 109 Chapter 11 The World-system Abhirati is Brought into Sahā, Revealing the Realized One Akṣobhya 121 Chapter 12 Conclusion and Entrustment 129 Appendices Appendix A Emendations to the Sanskrit Text 141 Appendix B Glossary of Sanskrit Terms 147 Appendix C Glossary and Index of Key Terms 153 Appendix D Index of Proper Names Appearing in the Translation 175 Notes 179 Translators 217
