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Precious Garland

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Precious Garland (Skt. Ratnāvalī or Ratnamāla; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་, Wyl. rin chen phreng ba) — a shastra written by Nagarjuna and belonging to his Collection of Advice.

In the Precious Garland, Nagarjuna offers advice on how to conduct our lives and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals.

The advice for personal happiness is concerned first with improving our condition over the course of lifetimes and then with release from all kinds of suffering, culminating in Buddhahood. Nagarjuna describes the cause and effect sequences for the development of happiness within ordinary life, as well as the practices that lead us to enlightenment--the practices for developing wisdom, or the realization of emptiness, and compassion. He also describes the qualities of the buddhas.

In his advice on social and governmental policy, Nagarjuna emphasizes education and compassionate care for all living beings, and states his opposition to the death penalty, and appeals for charity for the homeless. Calling for the appointment of government figures who do not seek profit or fame, he advises that a selfish motivation will lead to misfortune.

Outline

The text has five chapters: Template:Tibetan

  1. མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བ་དང་ངེས་པར་ལེགས་པ་, mngon par mtho ba dang nges par legs pa
  2. སྤེལ་མ་, spel ma
  3. བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་བསྡུས་པ་, byang chub kyi tshogs bsdus pa
  4. རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཚུལ་, rgyal po'i tshul
  5. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་, byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa

Tibetan text

Commentaries

Indian

  • Ajitamitra, Extensive Commentary on the Ratnāvalī (Skt. Ratnāvaliṭīka; Tib. རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ་, Wyl. rin po che'i phreng ba rgya cher bshad pa)

Tibetan

དབུ་མ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་, dbu ma rin chen phreng ba'i snying po'i don gsal bar byed pa
  • Lala Sönam Chödrup, དབུ་མ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལུང་གི་གསལ་བྱེད་, dbu ma rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba lung gi gsal byed

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