Concept
Sthiramati
Overview
Sthiramati (Sanskrit; Chinese: Anhui 安慧, and Jianhui 堅慧; Tibetan: Blo gros brtan pa) was a 6th-century Indian Buddhist scholar-monk. Sthiramati was a student of a Yogācāra scholar named Gunamati, and he was also a contemporary of another 6th-century Yogācāra scholar, Dharmapala of Nālandā. Sthiramati is connected with Valābhi university (present-day Gujarat), and also with Nālandā. Evidence from two inscriptions indicate that a figure named Sthiramati founded a monastery at Valābhi.
Sthiramati is mainly known for his numerous commentaries to Yogācāra and Abhidharma works which synthesized a varied tradition into a more coherent system.
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The one part, which really is orthodox, has no other purpose than to make the deliverances of the Vedas clearer, or to derive from the text of these original treatises an ingeniously thought-out Psychology. This system is called Mimansa, and two schools proceed from it. Distinguished from these there are other systems, amongst which the two chief are those of the Sanc’hya and Nyaya. The former again divides into two…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Sthiramati is.
ten days after this, Buddha's tooth will be brought forth, and taken to the Abhayagiri -vihâra. Let all and each, whether monks or laics, who wish to amass merit for themselves, make the roads smooth and in good condition, grandly adorn the lanes and by-ways, and provide abundant store of flowers and incense to be used as offerings to it."
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Sthiramati; the term itself is not named.
But when moral, as well as natural philosophy, came to be taught only as subservient to theology, the duties of human life were treated of as chiefly subservient to the happiness of a life to come. In the ancient philosophy, the perfection of virtue was represented as necessarily productive, to the person who possessed it, of the most perfect happiness in this life. In the modern philosophy, it was frequently…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to Sthiramati; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Sthiramati
Related ideas
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- Dignāga
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- Vijñāna
- Nalanda mahavihara
- Xuanzang
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- Abhidharma
- Dharmapala of Nalanda
- Yogachara
- Vasubandhu
- Pratītyasamutpāda
- Buddhism
- Optical illusion
- Gujarat
- Asanga
- Cheng Weishi Lun
- Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā
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- Valabhi University
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.