Badrīratna, ‘Dharmasaṃgrahabhāṣya’ (2005)

Nareśamāna Vajrācārya (ed.) Badrīratnakṛtabhāṣyopetaḥ Nāgārjunapādaviracitaḥ Dharmasaṃgrahaḥ. Prathamo bhāgaḥ. Kathmandu: Tri-Ratna Publication, 1126 NS [2005]. 222 pp. Rs 250.

This first volume of a presumably two-volume Sanskrit commentary on Nāgārjunapāda’s Dharmasaṅgraha is by Badrīratna Vajrācārya, a self-styled leader of the Kathmandu Vajrācārya community. As far as I can tell, not much of the text is Badrī’s original contribution, the remainder having been quoted without change, correction or comment from various Indian editions of Sanskrit texts.

On p.XXII, the editor, Dr. Naresh Man Bajracharya, repeatedly describes Nāgārjuna the Mādhyamika as a “Hīnayāni” author. Astonishingly, Dr. Bajracharya at the present time is Head of Tribhuvan University’s Buddhist Studies programme, who claims that his “teaching in Nepal and abroad are well received” (cf. back cover).