༺། །ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་བྱིན་པའི ༑ མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱན།

Adornment of the Supreme Profound Essential teachings off sacred instructions on PrajnaParamita

༄།།ཉན་ཐོས་ཞི་བ་འཚོལ་རྣམས་ཀུན་ཤེས ༑ ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཉེར་ཞིར་ཁྲིད་མཛད་གང་ཡིན་དང་།

She is the one who through her all-knowing guides all Shravakas from peace to utter peace

།འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་པར་བྱེད་རྣམས་ལམ་ཤེས ༑ ཉིད་ཀྱིས་འཇིག་རྟེན་དོན་སྒྲུབ་མཛད་པ་གང་།

She is the one who taught the knowledge of the past for the welfare of the world

གང་དང་ཡང་ལྡན་པས་ཐུབ་རྣམས་རྣམ་པ ༑ ཀུན་ལྡན་སྣ་ཚོགས་འདི་གསུངས་པ།

In union with her, the sages proclaim this variety endowed with all aspects.

།ཉན་ཐོས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཚོགས་བཅས ༑ སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ནི་ཡུམ་དེ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ།།

I pay homage to the mother of Buddhas with her entourage of Shravakas and Bodhisattvas.

The Abhisamayalankara is a significant Mahayana Buddhist text that focuses on the bodhisattva path and the attainment of Buddhahood. The text is written in verse and prose and is divided into ten chapters, which discuss various aspects of Buddhist philosophy and practice.

Here is a brief synopsis of each chapter:

  1. The chapter on the perfection of wisdom:

This chapter presents the concept of emptiness, the ultimate reality, and the importance of the bodhisattva path in attaining it. It addresses the Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas.

  1. The chapter on skilful means:

This chapter discusses the various methods used by bodhisattvas to help sentient beings, including giving, patience, and ethical conduct.

  1. The chapter on the precepts: This chapter discusses the importance of ethical conduct in the bodhisattva path and the need to follow the bodhisattva precepts.
  2. The chapter on meditation: This chapter presents the practices of samatha and vipassana meditation and their role in the attainment of enlightenment.
  3. The chapter on the perfection of wisdom and the path:

This chapter discusses the relationship between the perfection of wisdom and the bodhisattva path, and how the two are interconnected.

  1. The chapter on the ten stages: This chapter describes the ten stages of the bodhisattva path, from the initial aspiration to become a bodhisattva to the attainment of Buddhahood.
  2. The chapter on the five paths: This chapter discusses the five paths that bodhisattvas go through on their way to enlightenment, from the path of accumulation to the path of no more learning.
  3. The chapter on the ten perfections: This chapter presents the ten perfections that bodhisattvas need to cultivate on their way to enlightenment, including generosity, ethical conduct, patience, and wisdom.
  4. The chapter on the omniscient mind: This chapter discusses the attainment of the omniscient mind, the mind of a Buddha that knows all phenomena.
  5. The chapter on the Buddha's activities:

This chapter describes the activities of a Buddha, including teaching, guiding sentient beings, and benefiting them in various ways.

Overall, the Abhisamayalankara is a comprehensive and detailed text that provides a roadmap for the bodhisattva path and the attainment of Buddhahood.