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[[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame]]'''[[Precious Garland]]''' (Skt. ''[[Ratnāvalī]]'' or ''[[Ratnamāla]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rin chen phreng ba]]'') — a [[shastra]] written by [[Nagarjuna]] and belonging to his [[Collection of Advice]]. | [[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame]]'''[[Precious Garland]]''' (Skt. ''[[Ratnāvalī]]'' or ''[[Ratnamāla]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[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 {{Wiki|social}} policies that reflect [[Buddhist]] ideals. | + | In the ''[[Precious Garland]]'', [[Nagarjuna]] offers advice on how to conduct our [[lives]] and how [[to construct]] {{Wiki|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 [[buddha]]s. | + | 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 [[buddha]]s. |
| − | In his advice on {{Wiki|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 {{Wiki|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. | + | In his advice on {{Wiki|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 {{Wiki|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== | ==Outline== | ||
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==[[Tibetan]] text== | ==[[Tibetan]] text== | ||
| − | * {{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS35271|[[Ratnavali]], [[Rajaparikatharatnamala]] - {{BigTibetan|[[རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་]]}}, ''[[rgyal po la gtam bya ba | + | * {{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS35271|[[Ratnavali]], [[Rajaparikatharatnamala]] - {{BigTibetan|[[རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་]]}}, ''[[rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba]]''}} ([[The Dalai Lama]] [[taught]] on the third [[chapter]] of this text 2008 in Nantes, s.b. for [[Tibetan]], English and {{Wiki|French}}) |
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
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===[[Tibetan]]=== | ===[[Tibetan]]=== | ||
*[[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]] | *[[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]] | ||
| − | :{{TBRCW|O2CZ7509|O2CZ75092CZ7517$W676|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་མ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་}}, ''[[dbu ma]] [[rin chen]] phreng ba'i snying po'i don gsal bar byed pa''}} | + | :{{TBRCW|O2CZ7509|O2CZ75092CZ7517$W676|{{BigTibetan|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]], {{BigTibetan|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'' | + | *[[Lala Sönam Chödrup]], {{BigTibetan|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]]'' |
==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
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*''[[Nagarjuna's]] [[Precious Garland]]'', translated by [[Jeffrey Hopkins]], [[Snow Lion Publications]], 2007 | *''[[Nagarjuna's]] [[Precious Garland]]'', translated by [[Jeffrey Hopkins]], [[Snow Lion Publications]], 2007 | ||
*''The [[Precious Garland]]: An Epistle to a [[King]]'', translated by John Dunne and Sara McClintock, [[Wisdom Publications]], 1997 | *''The [[Precious Garland]]: An Epistle to a [[King]]'', translated by John Dunne and Sara McClintock, [[Wisdom Publications]], 1997 | ||
| − | *''The [[Precious]] Necklace'', Chapter 3, translated into {{Wiki|French}} and English by the [[Padmakara Translation Group]] (according to the commentary of [[Lozang Pelden Tendzin Nyendrak]] (also known as [[Drak Kar Tulku]]) and following the [[teaching]] [[tradition]] of [[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]]) and published on the occasion of the teachings by [[His Holiness the Dalai Lama]], Nantes, 15—20 August 2008. Available at [http://www.oceandesagesse.org/FR/ens_textes.php www.oceandesagesse.org] | + | *''The [[Precious]] Necklace'', [[Chapter]] 3, translated into {{Wiki|French}} and English by the [[Padmakara Translation Group]] (according to the commentary of [[Lozang Pelden Tendzin Nyendrak]] (also known as [[Drak Kar Tulku]]) and following the [[teaching]] [[tradition]] of [[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]]) and published on the occasion of the teachings by [[His Holiness the Dalai Lama]], Nantes, 15—20 August 2008. Available at [http://www.oceandesagesse.org/FR/ens_textes.php www.oceandesagesse.org] |
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
| − | *Leonard van der Kuijp, 'Notes on the [[Transmission]] of [[Nagarjuna's]] [[Ratnavali]] in [[Tibet]]', in ''The [[Tibet]] Journal'', Summer 1985, vol. X, No.2,4 | + | *Leonard [[van der Kuijp]], 'Notes on the [[Transmission]] of [[Nagarjuna's]] [[Ratnavali]] in [[Tibet]]', in ''The [[Tibet]] Journal'', Summer 1985, vol. X, No.2,4 |
*Michael Hanh, 'On a Numerical Problem in [[Nāgārjuna's]] [[Ratnāvalī]]', in ''Indological and [[Buddhist Studies]]: Volume in Honour of {{Wiki|Professor}} {{Wiki|J.W. de Jong}} on his Sixtieth Birthday'', {{Wiki|Canberra}}: Faculty of {{Wiki|Asian}} Studies, 1982, 161-185 | *Michael Hanh, 'On a Numerical Problem in [[Nāgārjuna's]] [[Ratnāvalī]]', in ''Indological and [[Buddhist Studies]]: Volume in Honour of {{Wiki|Professor}} {{Wiki|J.W. de Jong}} on his Sixtieth Birthday'', {{Wiki|Canberra}}: Faculty of {{Wiki|Asian}} Studies, 1982, 161-185 | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&library=TLB&vid=9 [[Ratnavali]] at {{Wiki|Thesaurus}} Literaturae Buddhicae] | *[https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&library=TLB&vid=9 [[Ratnavali]] at {{Wiki|Thesaurus}} Literaturae Buddhicae] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:21, 2 September 2014
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.
Contents
Outline
The text has five chapters: Template:Tibetan
- མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བ་དང་ངེས་པར་ལེགས་པ་, mngon par mtho ba dang nges par legs pa
- སྤེལ་མ་, spel ma
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་བསྡུས་པ་, byang chub kyi tshogs bsdus pa
- རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཚུལ་, rgyal po'i tshul
- བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་, byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa
Tibetan text
- Ratnavali, Rajaparikatharatnamala - རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་, rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba (The Dalai Lama taught on the third chapter of this text 2008 in Nantes, s.b. for Tibetan, English and French)
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
Translations
English
- Nagarjuna's Precious Garland, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Lion Publications, 2007
- The Precious Garland: An Epistle to a King, translated by John Dunne and Sara McClintock, Wisdom Publications, 1997
- The Precious Necklace, Chapter 3, translated into French and English by the Padmakara Translation Group (according to the commentary of Lozang Pelden Tendzin Nyendrak (also known as Drak Kar Tulku) and following the teaching tradition of Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen) and published on the occasion of the teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nantes, 15—20 August 2008. Available at www.oceandesagesse.org
Further Reading
- Leonard van der Kuijp, 'Notes on the Transmission of Nagarjuna's Ratnavali in Tibet', in The Tibet Journal, Summer 1985, vol. X, No.2,4
- Michael Hanh, 'On a Numerical Problem in Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī', in Indological and Buddhist Studies: Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday, Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, 1982, 161-185
