DarmaparyAya
dharma-paryāya , m. ( Pali dhammapariyāya, not well defined PTSD ), lit. device, means of (teaching) the doctrine , and so, secondarily, religious discourse . Cf. Pali (kathā) sapariyāyā and nippariyāyā ( e.g. Vism. 473.16—17 ), discourse involving indirect- devices (not to be taken absolutely literally), and discourse to be taken literally, without ‘devices’ ; cf. AbhidhK. LaV-P. ix.247 , note. This fits the regular BHS mg. of paryāya , q.v. 2. Tib. renders chos kyi (dharma-) rnam graṅs , specification, enumeration ( Das ); only in this cpd. the Tib. Dictt. allege also the mg. treatise, dissertation for rnam graṅs , but obviously that is made to fit this word alone; the Tib. rendering was intended to render Skt. paryāya, repetition, series , etc. (only in the Veda does it mean a piece of text , and then chiefly if not exclusively one that is repeated, a refrain , etc. ; this special use cannot be related to the BHS and Pali word, tho PTSD would have it so). Originally, the mg. was close to that of upāyakauśalya , indeed it was a verbal manifestation of that quality as clearly in: tathāgatasyaiṣa kulaputrā dharmaparyāyo (so WT with most mss. , supported by Tib. chos kyi rnam graṅs te ; KN deśanā-paryāyo, which would be substantially equivalent) yad evaṃ vyāharati, nāsty atra tathāgatasya mṛṣāvādaḥ SP 320.5 , this is the Tathāgataʼs way of (teaching the) doctrine … ( sc. by giving out statements not literally true); in so doing the T. does not lie ; cf. dharmāṇāṃ paryāya-jñānam Bbh 214.10 (with dharmāṇāṃ lakṣaṇa-jñānam id. 11); ayaṃ mañjuśrīḥ dharmaparyāyaḥ, asmiṃ sthāne pracariṣyati Mmk 657.3 , this, M. , is a way of (teaching) the doctrine (does this refer to the following discourse?); (ātmanaḥ parinirvāṇaṃ vyāharati tathā tathā ca sattvān paritoṣayati) nānāvidhair dharmaparyāyaiḥ SP 318.1 , here perhaps merely by various ways of (teaching) the doctrine (but possibly religious disquisitions ); more commonly the word comes to be used of a specific religious discourse : asmin khalu dharmaparyāye [Page280-a] bhāṣyamāṇe Divy 340.8 ; Av i.50.12 ; 233.4 ; ii.108.3 ; ito °ryāyād SP 225.3 ; ayaṃ °ryāyo Mv ii.297.12 ; frequently named, buddhānusmṛtir nāma °ryāyo Mv i.163.11 ; applied to the work in which it occurs, Lalitavistaro nāma °ryāyaḥ LV 4.17 ; Karmavibhaṅgaṃ … °ryāyaṃ deśayiṣyāmi (misprinted °yami) Karmav 29.31 ; other occurrences, °ryāyaḥ Mvy 6263 ; kiṃ (so! prob. kiṃ-nāmā, cpd. ) nāmāyaṃ … °ryāyaḥ RP 59.20 (similarly in Pali , DN i.46.20—21 , Ānanda asks, and is told, what is the name of this dhammapariyāya, viz. the first sutta of DN ); imaṃ °ryāyaṃ śrutvā Śikṣ 137.18 ; °ryāye KP 52.1 . Once in SP 28.6 ( vs ), the simple paryāya , q.v. , is used for dharma-p° in this sense.