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勒那摩提

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Basic Meaning: Ratnamati

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  • His name is translated into Chinese according to its meaning as Baoyi 寶意. A scholar-monk who came from central India to China to do significant translation work. He came to Loyang in the Northern Wei in 508, where he worked together with Bodhiruci 菩提流支 in the translation of the Daśabhūmika-śāstra 十地經論. Apparently he had significant disagreements with Bodhiruci in the process of the translation work, and left to work on other projects, being listed as a collaborator in the translation of a dozen or so other works. 1 His chief disciple was Huiguang 慧光, who founded the southern branch of the Dilun school 地論宗. He is credited with the following translations: 妙法蓮華經論優波提舍 *Saddharmapuṇḍarīkôpadeśa (T 1520); 十地經論 Daśabhūmika sūtra śāstra (= Tib. Daśabhūmivyākhyāna) (T 1522; on which he was a collaborator); and 究竟一乘寶性論 Uttaratantra/Ratnagotravibhāga (T 1611). 〔翻譯名義集 T 2131.54.1070c29〕 [Charles Muller, Dan Lusthaus, Michael Radich]
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    • Notes

    1. Lusthaus comments: "The tradition has not been as clear as we'd like about what exactly the difference was that sparked the disagreement between Bodhiruci (himself a good Yogâcāra) and Ratnamati, and the so-called Dilun controversies of the 6th century obscure rather than illuminate them. The issue may have been—already then—Ratnamatiʼs tendency to read in tathāgatagarbha ideas. Not that Bodhiruci would have been averse to tathāgatagarbha per se, but he wanted to render the texts in a manner true to the meaning as he understood it, in an orthodox Yogâcāra sense (though the Dilun is not exactly a blatantly Yogâcāra text), and resented Ratnamatiʼs intrusions." [back]


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    [Dictionary References]

    Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata) 408

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1144

    Bulgyo sajeon 194a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 239a/265

    Fo Guang Dictionary 4391

    Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0204

    Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 711

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)5073c,4672a

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    Entry created: 1997-09-15

    Updated: 2009-05-25