檢視 Precious Garland 的原始碼

[[Image:Nagarjuna17.JPG|frame]]'''Precious Garland''' (Skt. ''Ratnāvalī'' or ''Ratnamāla''; Tib. [[རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen phreng ba'') — a [[shastra]] written by [[Nagarjuna]] and belonging to his [[Collection of Advice]].

In the ''Precious Garland'', Nagarjuna offers advice on how to conduct our lives and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals. 

The advice for personal happiness is concerned first with improving our condition over the course of lifetimes and then with release from all kinds of suffering, culminating in [[Buddhahood]]. Nagarjuna describes the cause and effect sequences for the development of happiness within ordinary life, as well as the practices that lead us to enlightenment--the practices for developing [[wisdom]], or the realization of [[emptiness]], and [[compassion]]. He also describes the qualities of the [[buddha]]s.

In his advice on social and governmental policy, Nagarjuna emphasizes education and compassionate care for all living beings, and states his opposition to the death penalty, and appeals for charity for the homeless. Calling for the appointment of government figures who do not seek profit or fame, he advises that a selfish motivation will lead to misfortune.

==Outline==
The text has five chapters:
{{Tibetan}}
#མངོན་པར་མཐོ་བ་དང་ངེས་པར་ལེགས་པ་, ''mngon par mtho ba dang nges par legs pa''
#སྤེལ་མ་, ''spel ma''
#བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་བསྡུས་པ་, ''byang chub kyi tshogs bsdus pa''
#རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཚུལ་, ''rgyal po'i tshul''
#བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་, ''byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa''

==Tibetan text==
* {{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS35271|Ratnavali, Rajaparikatharatnamala - རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་, ''rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba''}} (The Dalai Lama taught on the third chapter of this text 2008 in Nantes, s.b. for Tibetan, English and French)

==Commentaries==
===Indian===
*[[Ajitamitra]], ''Extensive Commentary on the Ratnāvalī'' (Skt. Ratnāvaliṭīka; Tib. རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rin po che'i phreng ba rgya cher bshad pa'')

===Tibetan===
*[[Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen]]
:{{TBRCW|O2CZ7509|O2CZ75092CZ7517$W676|དབུ་མ་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་དོན་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་པ་, ''dbu ma rin chen phreng ba'i snying po'i don gsal bar byed pa''}}
*[[Lala Sönam Chödrup]], དབུ་མ་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ལུང་གི་གསལ་བྱེད་, ''dbu ma rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba lung gi gsal byed''

==Translations==
===English===
*''Nagarjuna's Precious Garland'', translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Lion Publications, 2007
*''The Precious Garland: An Epistle to a King'', translated by John Dunne and Sara McClintock, Wisdom Publications, 1997
*''The Precious Necklace'', Chapter 3, translated into French and English by the Padmakara Translation Group (according to the commentary of Lozang Pelden Tendzin Nyendrak (also known as Drak Kar Tulku) and following the teaching tradition of Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen) and published on the occasion of the teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nantes, 15—20 August 2008. Available at [http://www.oceandesagesse.org/FR/ens_textes.php www.oceandesagesse.org]

==Further Reading==
*Leonard van der Kuijp, 'Notes on the Transmission of Nagarjuna's Ratnavali in Tibet', in ''The Tibet Journal'', Summer 1985, vol. X, No.2,4
*Michael Hanh, 'On a Numerical Problem in Nāgārjuna's Ratnāvalī', in ''Indological and Buddhist Studies: Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday'', Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, 1982, 161-185

==External Links==
*[https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=volume&library=TLB&vid=9 Ratnavali at Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae]

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