Prasphuṭapadā
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Prasphuṭapadā (T. tshig rab tu gsal ba), or “A Clarification of the Words,” is a subcommentary on the Abhisamayālaṃkāravivṛti by the Indian scholar Dharmamitra (c. ninth century).[1]
The full title for the text is:[2]
- Sanskrit: Abhisamayālaṃkāra-kārikā-prajñāpāramitopadeśa-śāstra-ṭīkā prasphuṭapadā
- Tibetan: ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་ཚིག་རབ་ཏུ་གསལ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། · shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i man ngag gi bstan bcos mngon par rtogs pa'i rgyan gyi tshig le'ur byas pa'i 'grel bshad tshig rab tu gsal ba zhes bya ba/
- English: An Explanatory Commentary on “The Ornament for Clear Realizations, A Treatise of Personal Instructions on the Perfection of Wisdom,” A Clarification of the Words
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- In the Prasphuṭapadā, Dharmamitra seeks to clarify Haribhadra’s views as they appear in the Vivṛti, rather than put forth his own ideas regarding the Abhisamayālaṃkāra. In his work, Dharmamitra explains a number of doctrinal elements that would have a great impact on later forms of Tibetan Buddhism, including the tathāgatagarbha doctrine and the theory of multiple buddha bodies (buddhakāya).[1]
