Luo HONG
ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing
Toru TOMABECHI
ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der ÖAW
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This is the first critical edition of the Sanskrit text together
with the Tibetan translation of the Vajrasattvaniṣpādanasūtra
(VS) ascribed to the Buddhist
tantristic author Candrakīrti.
The text deals with the process
of meditational realization of the
state of the primordial Buddha
Vajrasattva, and belongs to the
corpus of the so-called Ārya
School of the Guhyasamāja exegesis. The text expounds
the Steps of Generation (utpattikrama) of the Ārya School,
essentially as a symbolic process of the birth of deities
from the sexo-yogic union between the practioner and
his yogic consort. The Sanskrit edition is based on copies
of two new manuscripts from Tibet (A, ca second half of
the 12th cent.; B, 1301? CE) and one photographed
by Rāhula Sān. kr. tyāyana at N. or Monastery
(G, ca 12th–13th cent.).
The edition of the Tibetan translation is based on the
four versions of Derge, Narthang, Peking, and the Golden
Manuscript. Two additional testimonies are provided in
the appendices: a collection of passages of the VS quoted
in an anonymous text also photographed at N. or, and an
edition of the Mantroddhāra on the basis of the same
manuscript as G. A synoptic analysis of the VS, as well
as notes on related texts, descriptions of the manuscripts,
a map of the thirty-two deity man. d. ala are provided in the
introduction.
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