A tsAr+ya gzugs ngan gyi gtam rgyud/Full text
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ཨཙརྱ་གཟུགས་ངན་གྱི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད།
The Story of the Repulsive Mendicant
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Despite its title, this short text includes four different stories, or rather allusions to them. One is, of course, the story of the ugly mendicant: the second is an allusion to the story of an elderly couple who, when robbed, fail to take countermeasures; the third is Atiśas frequent meeting with a person of evil character; and finally is an allusion to the story of Langri Thangpa being falsely accused of transgressing the cardinal monastic precept of celibacy. Rather than being a coherent single text, the work is more like several extracts loosely compiled as a resource for teaching. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 615n451)
| Reference | A tsAr+ya gzugs ngan gyi gtam rgyud [ཨཙརྱ་གཟུགས་ངན་གྱི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད།]. [The Story of the Repulsive Mendicant]. |
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