碩士 / 法鼓文理學院 / 佛教學系 / 104 / Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra is one of the important commentaries within the Tibetan monastic curriculum in the study of Prajñā. Sangha was taught in the Chapter of All Phenomena and Wisdoms (一切相智品), in which, based on the forty-eight Mahayana Sangha in the Prajñāpāramitā and using two verses, Maitreya inducted Mahayana Sangha as the Twenty Sanghas and likened the four stages of enlightenment to Mahayana Sangha. Śrāvaka sangha are of various kinds, including different practices like enlightenment, meditation and overcoming kleshas. The use of only two verses to explain them, therefore, is an oversimplification and readers cannot understand the meaning of Sangha directly from these two verses. As currently existing annotations related to Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra are mostly retrieved from Tibetan translations and very little information is available in Chinese, this thesis aims annotate the original script of the Tibetan translation of “Twenty Saṅgha” in Abhisamayālaṃkara (“Ocean of Enjoyment”) by the Gelug scholar, Jetswn Choskyi Gyaltshan, while exploring the meaning of Sangha based on the annotation.
The term “Twenty Saṅgha” originated from Āgama Sutra. Since the early Buddhist schools period, there were various definitions and discussions in regard to the Śrāvaka sangha’s practice of enlightenment and overcoming kleshas. In “Twenty Saṅgha” of Abhisamayālaṃkara, Jetswn Choskyi Gyaltshan intercepted various sutras from the Abhisamayālaṃkara of Haribhadra in conjunction with《Sphuṭârthā》and Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra. In the verses of Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra, Mahayana Sangha were named as the Śrāvaka, thus Jetswn Choskyi Gyaltshan firstly elaborated the foundation of Śrāvaka sangha before he interpreted Śrāvaka sangha. He further classified the “Twenty Saṅgha” under five categories: achievers through gradual realization, achievers through bypassing stages of realization, achievers through ridding greed, achievers through gradual ridding of conflictions, and achievers through instant ridding of conflictions. He then explained these five categories in details, including their respective meanings and contents. In the final part, he explained the Mahayana Sangha as represented by the Śrāvaka sangha and detailed the viewpoint with regard to the quantity of Sangha in the verses of Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra, as interpreted by Vimuktasena and Haribhadra. According to Haribhadra’s standpoint, under the classification of Abhisamaya-alaṅkāra, seventeen Sangha were obviously mentioned while the other three were only mentioned indirectly. This thesis will expatiate in further details accordingly.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104DDBC5841002 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Faming Shih, 釋法明 |
| Contributors | 廖本聖 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 203 |
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