2022 •
Exegetical Tradition of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra
Authors:
Imre Hamar
Abstract:
The Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, which served as an ideological foundation for the establishment and gradual development of the Huayan school, is one of the most influential Mahāyāna sūtras in East Asian Buddhism. This article shows how the exegetical tradition that focused on the study of this scripture was started by the scholar monks of the Dilun school, who highly valued the Vasubandhu’s commentary on the Daśabhūmika-sūtra chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, and was completed during the Tang dynasty by the masters of the Buddhis (...)
The Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, which served as an ideological foundation for the establishment and gradual development of the Huayan school, is one of the most influential Mahāyāna sūtras in East Asian Buddhism. This article shows how the exegetical tradition that focused on the study of this scripture was started by the scholar monks of the Dilun school, who highly valued the Vasubandhu’s commentary on the Daśabhūmika-sūtra chapter of the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra, and was completed during the Tang dynasty by the masters of the Buddhist exegesis, who later were venerated as patriarchs of the Huayan school. A Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra az egyik legjelentősebb Mahāyāna sūtra Kelet-Ázsiában, amely alapján a kínai buddhizmus egyik iskolája, a Huayan megalkotta sajátos tanításait. Ebben a cikkben bemutatjuk, hogy Kínában miként kezdődött el ennek a műnek az egzegetikai tanulmányozása a Dilun iskola tudós szerzetesei által, akik a Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra egyik fejezetét, a Daśabhūmika-sūtrát tanulmányozták Vasubandhu kommentárjának segítségével, és hogyan érte el a csúcspontját a Tang-kori mesterek által, akikek később a Huayan-iskola pátriákáiként tiszteltek. (Read More)
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