Vinayasūtra

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Vinayasūtra (T. 'dul ba'i mdo འདུལ་བའི་མདོ་), or "Aphorisms on Monastic Discipline" is a treatise on Vinaya by the Indian scholar Gunaprabha.[1]

The Vinayasutra is one of the "thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most Nyingma and Sakya shedras.

Commentaries

Indian

  • Dharmamitra, Vinayasūtraṭīka (Wyl. ’dul ba’i mdo’i rgya cher ’grel pa)
  • Prajñākara, Vinayasūtravyākhyāna (Wyl.’dul ba mdo’i rnam par bshad pa)

Tibetan

  • Khenpo Shenga, འདུལ་བ་མདོ་རྩ་བའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་པདམ་དཀར་པོའི་ལྗོན་ཤིང་

Notes

Further Reading

  • Paul K. Nietupski, 'Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts', JIATS 5, 2009 (Available online here)
  • Singh, Priya S. 'The Vinayasūtra of Guṇaprabha: A Historical Note.' in Buddhist Studies: The Journal of the Department of Buddhist Studies, no. 10 (1986).
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