Vinayasūtra
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Vinayasūtra (T. 'dul ba'i mdo འདུལ་བའི་མདོ་), or "Aphorisms on Monastic Discipline" is a treatise on Vinaya by the Indian scholar Gunaprabha.[1]
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- The text offers a summary or condensation of the massive Mūlasarvāstivāda vinaya. At approximately one quarter the length of this larger vinaya, Guṇaprabha’s abridgment seems to have functioned as a kind of primer on the monastic code, omitting lengthy passages of scripture and providing the code of conduct that monks were expected to follow. In this sense, the text is an important work for determining what lived monastic practice may actually have been like in medieval India.[2]
The Vinayasutra is highly regarded within Tibetan Buddhism. Within the Gelug tradition, it is one of five books that serve as the basis for their monastic curriculum.[2] It is also one of the "thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most Nyingma and Sakya shedras.
Commentaries
Indian
- Dharmamitra, Vinayasūtraṭīka (Wyl. ’dul ba’i mdo’i rgya cher ’grel pa)
- Prajñākara, Vinayasūtravyākhyāna (Wyl.’dul ba mdo’i rnam par bshad pa)
Tibetan
- Khenpo Shenga, འདུལ་བ་མདོ་རྩ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་པདམ་དཀར་པོའི་ལྗོན་ཤིང་
Notes
- ↑
Vinayasūtra, 84000 Collection
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Gunaprabha
Further reading
Print publications:
- Paul K. Nietupski, 'Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts', JIATS 5, 2009 (Available online here)
- Singh, Priya S. 'The Vinayasūtra of Guṇaprabha: A Historical Note.' in Buddhist Studies: The Journal of the Department of Buddhist Studies, no. 10 (1986).
Web publications:
Vinayasutra, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
