Bhāvaviveka (c.500-570)
ལེགས་ལྡན་འབེད། legs ldan ‘byed
aka Bhāviveka (སྣང་བྲལ་) (snang bral) or Bhavya (སྐལ་ལྡན་) (skal ldan)
Biography
“Bhavaviveka.” Rigpa Wiki rigpawiki.org
Eckel, Malcolm David. 2013. “Bhāviveka / Bhāvaviveka.” Oxford Bibliographies Online in Buddhism. oxfordbibliographies.com
Noted Scholars
William L Ames, Malcolm Eckel
Works
Prajñāpradīpa
Commentary to Nāgārjuna’s Mulamadhyamaka-karika (Root verses of Middle Way)
dbu ma’i rtsa ba’i ‘grel pa shes rab sgron ma
དབུ་མའི་རྩ་བའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་སྒྲོན་མ་
Tibetan
- Ames, William Longstreet. 1986. Bhāvaviveka’s Prajnāpradīpa: Six Chapters. Dissertation University of Washington. digital.lib.washington.edu
Translation of 6 chapter - Bhāvaviveka and William Longstreet Ames. 2019. The Lamp of Discernment: A Translation of Chapters 1-12 of Bhāvaviveka’s Prajnāpradīpa. Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America. WorldCat
Madhyamaka-hṛdaya
Heart of the Middle Way
dbu ma’i snying po’i ‘grel pa rtog ge ‘bar ba
དབུ་མའི་སྙིང་པོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་རྟོག་གེ་འབར་བ
Tibetan
- Watanabe, Chikafumi. 1999. “Bhāviveka on Invalidations by Pratyakṣa and Pratīti: The Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā III. 176-181.” Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 80, no. 1/4: 155–66. JSTOR
Tarkajvālā
Blaze of Reasoning – Auto commentary on Heart of Middle Way
dbu ma’i snying po’i ‘grel pa rtog ge ‘bar ba
དབུ་མའི་སྙིང་པོའི་འགྲེལ་པ་རྟོག་གེ་འབར་བ་
Tibetan
- Eckel, Malcolm David and Bhāvaviveka. 2008. Bhāviveka and His Buddhist Opponents. Department Of Sanskrit And Indian Studies, Harvard University. JABL (Translation of chapters 4 and 5)
- Malcolm David Eckel. 1994. To See the Buddha: A Philosopher’s Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness. Princeton University Press. JABL (Translation of Blaze of Reasoning)
