The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana — Th. Stcherbatsky (1927)
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Since there is thus no (separate) teaching about (separate) elements, for the sake of reaching Nirvana, how is it then possible to maintain that (a kind of) Nirvana exists, because the discourses 2 about the elements 3 of existence really exist. Therefore it is established that ("this kind of) Nirvana does not really exist. Accordingly it has been said by Buddha,
«The Ruler of the World has said 540. 8 .
That (this) Nirvana is not (real) Nirvana :
A knot by empty space entwined
By empty space has been untied!»
And moreover, «Those who imagine that something can appear and 540. 10. disappear, for them, 0 Blessed one, the (real) Buddha has not (yet) appeared!
Those, 0 Blessed one, who seek a realistic 4 (definite) Nirvana, they never will escape out of the world-migrations! For what reason? Because, 0 Blessed one, Nirvana is the merger 5 of all particular signs , 6 the quiescence of every motion and commotion ! 7 Ignorant indeed, 0 Blessed one, are all those men who having become recluses in the name of a doctrine and discipline by them imagined , 8 are seeking for a realistic Nirvana and have thus fallen down into a false doctrine which is not Buddhist. (They think to
1 sva-vikalpa-aMyudaya.
2 The reading of the Mss. deSananam is perhaps to be retained (mabhidheya-bahutvatv).
3 dharma.
4 bhavatah — 8va-bhdvatah f i. e. not that Nirvana which is immanent to the Universe.
5 praSama. 7 sarva-injita-saviinjita.
6 sarva-nimittdnnm. 8 srdkhydfa
NIRVANA
win Nirvana is the same) as to get oil out of oil-seeds or butter out of milk! I declare, o Blessed one, that those who seek Nirvana in the fact that separate elements of life will be absolutely extinct, 1 (I declare) that they are not better than the most selfconceited gentiles».
4i. 3 . «A Master of Yoga, 2 o Blessed one, the man thoroughly trained (in yoga) does not (really) produce something (new), nor does he suppress something (existing), 3 nor will he admit that something, some real element, 4 can be attained, or seized by absolute knowledge, 5 etc.».
Finished the Examination of Nirvana, the 25th Chapter in the Com¬ ment upon Relativity, composed by the venerable Master Candraklrti.
1 'parinirvrta — parito niruddha.
2 Yogacara , here in the general sense of a Mahayanist, not in the sense of a Master of the Yogacara school.
3 as the Hlnayanist teaching about yoga-samadhi assumes, cp. above, p. 14, and Central Conception, p. 51.
4 here dharma refers to the phalas attained by mdrga.
s abliisamoya = prajha-paramita.
INDICES
1. PROPER NAMES
2. SANSCRIT WORKS
3. SANSCRIT AND PALI WORDS
4. TIBETAN WORDS
5. MONGOLIAN WORDS
p. 6
7. TECHNICAL TERMS
1. Proper Names.
Aksayamati, 126.
Akutobhaya, 105.
D’Alembert, 40.
Anesaki, M., 6, 29, 39, 48.
Aristotle, 42, 43, 164, 210.
Aryadeva, 31, 47, 66, 67, 95, 158.
Aryasanga (Asanga), 31, 32, 34, 35, 66, 67, 90,
164, 189.
Asvaghosa, 31, 32, 67.
Aung, 134.
Avalokitavrata, 66.
Avenarius, 40.
Bain, 43.
Baldwin, 53.
Baradiin, B., 36.
Barth, A., 37, 51, 68.
Beck, 6, 57.
Bergson, 18, 51, 54.
Bhasarvajna, 59.
Bhaskara, 142.
Bhavaviveka (Bhavya,) 66, 67, 82, 87, 88, 89,
94, 96, 97, 98, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108,
109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117,
118, 120, 122.
Bodhidharma, 189.
Bradley, 52, 54-
Bruno, G., 53.
Buddhaghoga, 66.
Buddhapalita, 67, 87, 88, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99,
100, 101 102, 103, 105, 120, 121, 122.
BQhler, 1.
Buraouf, 31, 131, 145.
Bu-ston, 66.
Candraklrti, 28, 35, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 49, 66,
67, 85, 96, 115, 141, 150, 151, 152, 153,
154, 155, 156, 164, 167, 182, 204,
212 .
Childers, 185.
Comte, 40.
Cusanus, Nicolaus, 53.
Dahlman, 4.
Dasgupta, S. N, 15, 54.
Descartes, 19.
Deussen, 38, 91.
Devasarman, 66.
Dharmakirti, 35, 61, 114, 162, 163,185, 205.
Dharmapala, 32.
Dharmottara, 162, 210.
Dignaga, 24, 31, 32, 35, 45, 61, 66, 67, 108.
109, 111, 112, 114, 119,135,1 37, 140, 141,
142, 146, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 160,
161, 162, 163, 164.
Drdhasaya, 128.
Eberhard, 161.
Eisler, 40.
Epicurus, 15.
Faddegon, 58, 60.
Franke, 0., 21, 42.
Freud, Sigm., 26.
Garbe, 135.
Gaudapada, 57.
Glasenapp, H. v., 57.
Gorsky, V., 189.
Gotama, 59.
Grote, G., 43.
Grflnwedel, A., 36.
Gunamati, 66.
GunasrI, 66.
Harivarman, 24.
Heiler, 6, 15, 18, 19, 28.
Hegel, 53, 54.
Heracleitus, 52.
Hinayana, 80, 31, 33, 46, 52, 109, 110, 115,
123, 184, 164, 165, 175, 176, 202.
Hlnayanist, 112, 113, 124, 134, 177, 178, 179,
180, 183, 185, 187,
Jacob, 124.
Jacobi, 2, 6, 20, 37, 52, 57, 60.
Jaimini, 189.
Jayanta, 54, 55, 59.
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Kamalaslla, 162.
Kanada, 189.
Kant, 18, 21, 107, 153. 154, 161, 208.
Kapila, 189.
Kasyapa, 128.
Katyayana, 126.
Keith, 6, 21, 23, 37, 52, 57, 134, 135.
Kern, 31, 37, 47.
Kirfel, 12.
Kuhn, Ernst, 42.
Kumaralabha, 21.
Kumarila, 37.
Ladd, 110.
Law, B. C., 3, 12.
Lcan-skya-hu-tuk-tu, 189.
Lehman, 6.
Leibnitz, 19.
Levi, Sylvain, 32, 35.
Mach, E-, 40.
Madhavacarya, 123, 124.
Madhyamika, 38, 46, pass.
Madhyamika-Prasangika, 34, 67.
Madhyamika-Svantantrika, 34, 67.
Mahabhadanta, 25.
Mahasanghikas, 28, 185.
Mahayana, 34, 46, 51, 62, pass.
Mahayanist, pass.
Maitreya-Asanga, 17, 34.
ManjusrI, 22, 131.
Masson Oursel, 2.
Masuda, J., 30.
Mlmamsaka, 19.