Durbodhāloka
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Durbodhāloka, or "An Illumination of the Points that are Difficult to Understand," is a subcommentary on the Abhisamayālaṃkāravivṛti by the Indian scholar Dharmakīrtiśrī (a.k.a. Serlingpa).[1]
The full title for the text is:[2]
- Sanskrit: Abhisamayālaṃkāranāmaprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstravṛttidurbodhālokanāmaṭīkā
- Tibetan: ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་འགྲེལ་པ་རྟོགས་པར་དཀའ་བའི་སྣང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད། · shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan zhes bya ba'i 'grel pa rtogs par dka' ba'i snang ba zhes bya ba'i 'grel bshad/
- English: A General Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom,” An Illumination of the Points that are Difficult to Understand
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- The Durbodhāloka is only extant in Tibetan translation and was written later than the Prasphuṭapadā of Dharmamitra. It is the only extant Buddhist scholastic text from that period by a writer from that region.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Dharmakīrtiśrī
- ↑
A General Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom,” An Illumination of the Points that are Difficult to Understand