Karen Lang

Aryadeva’s Catuhstaka
On the bodhisattva’s Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge

Indiske Studier 7

By Karen Lang
 
Preface
The Catuhstaka is the major work, in four hundred verses, of the Madhyamaka scholar Aryadeva. Despite the interest in Madhyamaka philosophy and the abundance of articles published on Nagarjuna, his illustrious teacher, Aryadeva's work has received scant attention. Although the Catuhstaka was originally written in Sanskrit, and later translated into Chinese (the last eight chapters only) and Tibetan, only fragments of the Sanskrit text now remain. An incomplete manuscript of Candrakirti's commentary on the text, the Bodhisattvayogâcâcâcâracatuhsatakatíkâ, was discovered and published by Haraprasad Shastri in 1914. P. L. Vaidya and V. Bhattacharya, working with Shastri's edition and the Tibetan translations, have edited the later half of the Catuhstaka. In preparing this new edition of the complete text, I am indebted to their previous work.
 
My own work on this text began as part of my doctoral dissertation work under Prof. D. Seyfort Ruegg at the University of Washington. Much of what I know about Madhyamaka has been acquired through attending his lectures and seminars on Madhyamaka texts, and I am grateful to him for sharing his knowledge with me. During my stay in Dharamsala in 1978, aided by a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation fellowship, I benefited by hearing Geshe N. Dhargyey's lectures on this text and rGyal tsab's commentary and by discussions of it with Losang Gyaltsen and Geshe Sonam Rinchen. I also wish to thank Prof. Chr. Lindtner for his numerous and helpful suggestions for improving my translation, for lending me his own translation of chapter 16, and for his additions to the edition of the text and its annotation. I hope that the publication of this work will stimulate other scholars to correct whatever errors still remain and to make further contributions to the understanding of Aryadeva's Catuhstaka.
 
K.L., Charlottesville, VA
 
Format: 206 sidor, häftad 150 x 210 mm

Akademisk Forlag, Copenhagen 1986

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