Print (softcover, with CD) eBook, Digital, released on 08.11.2012
關鍵詞
Asienforschung; Lotus Garland Synopsis; Mahayoga Tantra; Noble Noose of Methods
摘要
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.
目次
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
