MINOR BUDDHIST TEXTS (Part 1)

G. TUCCI
It also appears that Kamalaslla fits his commentary within
the framework of Asahga and Vasubandhu, explaining
the sequences of the Vajracchedika according to
the fivefold dialectical method which his predecessors
discovered in the text: antithesis, characters of the objects
discussed, exhortation of the listeners to desire and vow
concerning that very object, real meaning of the same
object from the absolute point of view, its final evidence
as it is realized in the yogic attainment (yogasamdpatti).
Moreover, in Kamalasila's commentary there are many
digressions on the selflessness (n air at my a) of everything,
on non-perception (a n u p a 1 a m b h a), on the logical
contradiction implied in the notion of cause and
effect, of a whole (a v a y a v i n) or of a part (a v a -
y a v a).
In other words, Kamalaslla introduces in a treatise on
the meditative process the basic doctrines of the Madhyamika.
His work is therefore a clear attempt at a conciliation
between Asanga's exposition of the career of a
Bodhisatwa, as pointed out by the Prajiia-literature, and
the Madhyamika standpoint.
It is also clear that there is great difference between
this classification and that of AA. :) which is as follows:
1. sarvakarajnata, omniscience of the Buddha.
2. margajiiata, omniscience of the Bodhisattva
concerning the path.
3. sarvajnata, omniscience realized by the followers
of the Lesser Vehicle and concerning things.
*) See the works of E. OBERMILLER and E. CONZE quoted at p. 6, n. 1.
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