[INDOLOGY] Caste system and Buddhism

[David and Nancy Reigle]

I would still like to know the source of this statement, but it does not
appear to be the Bodhisattva-bhūmi. According to an electronic search of
the digital version, the word pañcaśīla does not even occur in this text.
So it seems that the author of the Bodhisattva-bhūmi did not make any
statement about the pañcaśīla, let alone a categorical statement that a
devout Buddhist may deviate from these precepts.

The digital version of the Bodhisattva-bhūmi (Dutt edition) is available at
the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon website (http://www.dsbcproject.org/),
and also at the GRETIL website (http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/). Page
image scans of the two printed editions, those by Unrai Wogihara
(1930-1936) and by Nalinaksha Dutt (1966), were posted by me on the web (
http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/sanskrit-texts-3/sanskrit-buddhist-texts/). Only
a few months ago the first complete English translation of the
Bodhisattva-bhūmi was published: *The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed
Enlightenment*, translated by Artemus B. Engle (Boulder: Snow Lion, 2016).

By the way, I compared several pages of this new English translation by
Artemus Engle to the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts, and it appears to me to
have been very carefully made.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:

Also I would like to join the request,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Artur Karp (ret.)
> University of Warsaw
> Poland
>
> 2016-06-03 19:29 GMT+02:00 David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Alakendu Das,
>>
>> Could you please provide a specific reference for this? Thanks. The
>> Bodhisattva-bhūmi is a large book.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:54 AM, alakendu das <
>> mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dr.Rajam,
>>> There's yet another interesting twist about good deeds and bad deeds.
>>> Obviously , good deeds are those in accordance with the PanchaSheela .But
>>> Asanga, the 4th century Mahayana Buddhist philosopher ,in his text
>>> Bodhisatta-Bhumi, categorically stated that a devout Buddhist may deviate
>>> from any of the 5 Panchasheelas if he finds anybody who is violating the
>>> ethical code viz. showing scnt respect to parents or elder brother . or to
>>> a fellow Bhikkhu.
>>> It shows the practical aspect of Buddhism, as it went on evolving after
>>> Buddha .
>>>
>>> ALAKENDU DAS
>>>
>>>
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