Yuktiṣaṣṭikā
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Yuktiṣaṣṭikā (T. rigs pa drug cu pa; C. Liushisong ruli lun; J. Rokujūju nyoriron; K. Yuksipsong yŏri non 十頌如理論). Known in English as Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning. A shastra by Nagarjuna. It belongs to his Collection of Middle Way Reasoning.
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- Although lost in the original Sanskrit, the work is preserved in both Tibetan and Chinese; a number of the Sanskrit stanzas have however been recovered as citations in other works. Sixty-one stanzas in length, the work is a collection of aphorisms generally organized around the topic of pratītyasamutpāda.[1]
Title variations
- Yuktiṣaṣṭikā (T. rigs pa drug cu pa; C. Liushisong ruli lun 十頌如理論)
- Yuktiṣaṣṭikākārika (T. rigs pa drug cu pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa)
Tibetan text
Commentaries
Indian
- Chandrakirti's Yuktiṣaṣṭikāvṛtti ("Commentary on the Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning")
Translations
- Christian Lindtner, Master of Wisdom: Writings of the Buddhist Master Nāgārjuna, Translations and Studies by Chr. Lindtner, Dharma Publishing, 1986
- Fernando Tola and Carmen Dragonetti, On Voidness: A Study on Buddhist Nihilism (Buddhist Tradition Series, Vol 23), Motilal Banarsidass, 2002
- Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning by Nagarjuna, pdf
- Joseph Loizzo, Nagarjuna's Reason Sixty with Chandrakirti's Reason Sixty Commentary, American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2006
Selected verses
From translation by Geshe Thupten Jinpa:
Homage to the great Sage
Who taught dependent origination,
The means by which are eliminated
Arising and destruction.
Those whose mind has transcended
Existence and non-existence and abides no more [in them],
They’ve realized the meaning of conditioned existence,
The profound absence of objectification.
Notes
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Yuktiṣaṣṭikā.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
