Sanskrit Text of the "Śivapathikāsūtra" in the "Madhyamāgama"
Sanskrit Text of the "Śivapathikāsūtra" in the "Madhyamāgama"

Author(s): Kazunobu Matsuda
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Madhyamāgama; Śivapathikā; aśubha-bhāvanā meditation
Summary/Abstract: The Sanskrit manuscript of the "Tridaṇḍamālā" preserved at sPos khang monastery in Tibet contains forty tridaṇḍas. A tridaṇḍa is a sūtra used for the purpose of liturgical chanting. In the "Tridaṇḍamālā", all forty sūtras are inserted between Aśvaghoṣa’s verses. Most of the sūtras come from the Sarvāstivāda "Saṃyuktāgama" and "Ekottarikāgama". Exceptionally, there are two instances of those from the Madhyamāgama. One of these two is the twenty-first tridaṇḍa that transmits the Chinese "Madhyamāgama" 139 (*"Śivapathikāsūtra"). This sūtra demonstrates the teaching on aśubha-bhāvanā and has no parallel in any other sūtras. It is often quoted in several Abhidharma texts. Neither its Pāli parallel, nor any Sanskrit fragments have been found in Central Asia. This paper presents its Sanskrit text for the first time.

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