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བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པའི་གཞུང་འགྲེལ་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང།
byang chub spyod pa'i gzhung 'grel gsal ba'i me long
The Illuminating Mirror: A Commentary on Bodhisattva Conduct
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Description
This commentary consists of three main topics: (1) remembering the Three Jewels, (2) engaging in the conduct of bodhisattvas leading to awakening, and (3) the result of the 37 limbs of awakening (byang phyogs so bdun). Under the first topic, the author extensively explains the Three Jewels and the three buddha bodies with scriptural references. Then, under the second topic, he explains the BCA with a simple textual outline and numerous citations. In the end, under the third topic, he explains the three buddha bodies as a result of traversing the path of awakening, which consists of 37 limbs.
Type of Commentary: topical-outline-based meaning commentary
Length: 154
Tradition: Nyingma
Length: 154
Tradition: Nyingma
Reference
Ge bcags rtogs ldan tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho (གེ་བཅགས་རྟོགས་ལྡན་ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ). byang chub spyod pa'i gzhung 'grel gsal ba'i me long [བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པའི་གཞུང་འགྲེལ་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང།]. [The Illuminating Mirror: A Commentary on Bodhisattva Conduct].
Recensions
| Tibetan | Ge bcags rtogs ldan tshangs dbyangs rgya mtsho. བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱོད་པའི་གཞུང་འགྲེལ་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ལོང།, Byang chub spyod pa'i gzhung 'grel gsal ba'i me long.
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Interconnections
1 Recensions
In this treatise, which is gathered from the supreme and unique path traversed by all the sugatas of the three times and their spiritual heirs, and which belongs to the practice of the Great Vehicle’s path to awakening, the life stories of the Three Jewels are recollected. It serves as a clear mirror for the commentary on the texts of the practice of awakening, and it explains how the body and wisdom of the Victorious Ones and their heirs are manifested through the thirty-seven factors of enlightenment, such as the four foundations of mindfulness, so that oneself and others may easily enter the path to awakening.
1 Classical commentary of
An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
