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Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika, the Glossary

Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra-kārikā (Verses on the Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sūtras) is a major work of Buddhist philosophy attributed to Maitreya-nātha which is said to have transmitted it to Asanga (ca. 320 to ca. 390 CE).^[1]

16 relations: Asanga, Bhashya, Buddhist philosophy, Chinese language, Classical Tibetan, Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso, Mahayana, Mahayana sutras, Maitreya-nātha, Mongolian language, Nyingma, Sanskrit, Sthiramati, Vasubandhu, Yogachara, Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra.
Yogacara shastras

Asanga

Asaṅga (Sanskrit: असंग,,; Romaji: Mujaku) (fl. 4th century C.E.) was one of the most important spiritual figures of Mahayana Buddhism and the founder of the Yogachara school.

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Bhashya

Bhashya is a "commentary" or "exposition" of any primary or secondary text in ancient or medieval Indian literature.

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Buddhist philosophy

Buddhist philosophy is the ancient Indian philosophical system that developed within the religio-philosophical tradition of Buddhism.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Classical Tibetan

Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.

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Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso

Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso, or Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyamtso (1846–1912) (also known as "Mipham the Great") was a very influential philosopher and polymath of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Mahayana

Mahāyāna is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India (onwards).

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Mahayana sutras

The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture (sūtra) that are accepted as canonical and as ''buddhavacana'' ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Maitreya-nātha

Maitreya-nātha (c. 270–350 CE) is a name whose use was pioneered by Buddhist scholars Erich Frauwallner, Giuseppe Tucci, and Hakuju Ui to distinguish one of the three founders of the Yogachara school of Buddhist philosophy, along with Asanga and Vasubandhu.

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Mongolian language

Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.

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Nyingma

Nyingma, often referred to as Ngangyur, is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sthiramati

Sthiramati (Sanskrit; Chinese: Anhui 安慧, and Jianhui 堅慧; Tibetan: Blo gros brtan pa) was a 6th-century Indian Buddhist scholar-monk.

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Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu (Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Buddhist monk and scholar from Gandhara or Central India.

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Yogachara

Yogachara (योगाचार, IAST) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā).

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Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra

The Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra (YBh, Sanskrit; Treatise on the Foundation for Yoga Practitioners) is a large and influential doctrinal compendium, associated with Sanskritic Mahāyāna Buddhism (particularly Yogācāra). Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika and Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra are Yogacara shastras.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika

Also known as Mahayana-sutralamkara-karika, Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra-kārikā, Sūtrālamkāra.