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Essay name: Dasabhumika Sutra (translation and study)

Author: Hwa Seon Yoon
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Pali

This is a study and translation of the Dasabhumika Sutra (“Ten Stages Discourse�)—a significant Buddhist text. It examines the distinction between Theravada (Hinayana) and Mahayana Buddhism, focusing on the divergence in the spiritual concepts of Arhatship, Bodhisattva, Paramitas and Bhumis.

Chapter 3 - Study: Paramitas or Perfections

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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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also seen that the order of enumeration of the two lists is also different.
Commentator Dhammapāla,
the author of the Cariyāpiṭaka
Aṭṭhakatha, argues in favour of the list of six Pāramitās what he thinks
are fundamental, and considers the others as redundant. This list of six
Pāramitās which he approves of is identical with the six Pāramitās
accepted by the ѲԲ. Explaining the reduction of ten Päāramitās
into six, he says that Nekkhamma Parami and Sacca Pāramī are
constituents of Sila Pārami. Similarly, Mettā Pārami is included in
Jñāna Pārami and Upekkhā Pāramī in both Jhāna and Paññā Pāramīs.
Further, he says that Adhiṭṭhāna Pāramī is included in all Pāramīs.
Har Dayal, dealing with this question, says that it is possible that
the doctrine of Pāramitā gradually grew from the three fundamental
training Sila, Samādhi and Paññā. Further he also says that the increase
in number in Mahāyāna may be due to the rivalry between Theravāda and
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note that
Vasubandhu in his
It is interesting to
Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra commentary explains that the six Pāramitās are
related to the threefold training (tri-sikṣās), namely, adhiśīla, adhicitta
and adhiprajñā. According to this explanation the first three Pāramitās
are connected to adhisila; fifth to adhicitta and sixth to adhiprajñā. The
fourth namely, viriya is considered as being common to all three śikṣās.
This should be compared with the categorization of Pāramitā by the well-
known Pali commentator Rev. Dhammapala, referred to above. According

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