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'''Sthiramati''' (Tib. [[བློ་གྲོས་བརྟན་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''blo gros brtan pa'') (c.510-570) — a disciple of [[Vasubandhu]]. His writings include commentaries on [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' and ''[[Ornament of Mahayana Sutras]]'' and on Vasubandhu's ''[[Abhidharmakosha]]'', ''[[Thirty Stanzas]]'' and ''[[Analysis of the Five Skandhas]]''. | '''Sthiramati''' (Tib. [[བློ་གྲོས་བརྟན་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''blo gros brtan pa'') (c.510-570) — a disciple of [[Vasubandhu]], who was particularly renowned for his mastery of [[abhidharma]]. His writings include commentaries on [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' and ''[[Ornament of Mahayana Sutras]]'' and on Vasubandhu's ''[[Abhidharmakosha]]'', ''[[Thirty Stanzas]]'' and ''[[Analysis of the Five Skandhas]]''. | ||
[[Taranatha]] recounts the story that when [[Vasubandhu]] was reciting the ''Collection of a Hundred Thousand Slokas in Ninety-nine Sections'', an intelligent dove listened with reverence. When the dove was reborn as a boy, immediately he asked "where is the [[acharya]] [Vasubandhu]?" | [[Taranatha]] recounts the story that when [[Vasubandhu]] was reciting the ''Collection of a Hundred Thousand Slokas in Ninety-nine Sections'', an intelligent dove listened with reverence. When the dove was reborn as a boy, immediately he asked "where is the [[acharya]] [Vasubandhu]?". This boy was Sthiramati. It is said that during his time, as most of the centres of the Dharma established by the previous acharyas had become defunct, he established hundreds of Dharma centres. | ||
It is said that during his time, as most of the centres of the Dharma established by the previous acharyas had become defunct, | |||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
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Sthiramati (Tib. བློ་གྲོས་བརྟན་པ་, Wyl. blo gros brtan pa) (c.510-570) — a disciple of Vasubandhu, who was particularly renowned for his mastery of abhidharma. His writings include commentaries on Maitreya's Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes and Ornament of Mahayana Sutras and on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha, Thirty Stanzas and Analysis of the Five Skandhas.
Taranatha recounts the story that when Vasubandhu was reciting the Collection of a Hundred Thousand Slokas in Ninety-nine Sections, an intelligent dove listened with reverence. When the dove was reborn as a boy, immediately he asked "where is the acharya [Vasubandhu]?". This boy was Sthiramati. It is said that during his time, as most of the centres of the Dharma established by the previous acharyas had become defunct, he established hundreds of Dharma centres.
Works
- Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Skt. madhyānta-vibhāga-ṭīkā; Tib. དབུས་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་, Wyl. dbus dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'i 'grel bshad) . Tibetan text:
དབུས་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་ (Derge Pedurma)
Further reading
- Chimpa, Alaka Chattopadhyaya & Lama, Taranatha’s History of Buddhism in India, Edited by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2010), pages 179-181 and 399-400