Bodhyāpattideśanāvṛttibodhisattvaśikṣākrama
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बोध्यापत्तिदेशनावृत्तिबोधिसत्त्वशिक्षाक्रम
Bodhyāpattideśanāvṛttibodhisattvaśikṣākrama
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ལྟུང་བ་བཤགས་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་བསླབ་པའི་རིམ་པ།
byang chub kyi ltung ba bshags pa'i 'grel pa byang chub sems dpa'i bslab pa'i rim pa
A Running Commentary on the Confession of Transgressions of Bodhi(sattvas) According to Bodhisattva Precepts (84000)
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Bodhyāpattideśanāvṛttibodhisattvaśikṣākrama (Tib. Byang chub kyi ltung ba bshags pa'i 'grel pa byang chub sems dpa'i bslab pa'i rim pa; Toh 4006; rKTs T3346), by Jetāri, is a commentary on the Triskandhakasūtra, the Confession of Bodhisattva Downfalls addressed to the thirty-five buddhas. Writing for those who have generated the mind of awakening, Jetāri presents the confession as the means of purifying a bodhisattva's transgressions and follows the text through its parts: taking refuge, paying homage to the thirty-five buddhas, confessing misdeeds, resolving to restrain from them in the future, and dedicating merit to unsurpassed awakening. He glosses each buddha's name in terms of the qualities it expresses and describes the karmic results of the ten non-virtues and of misusing the property of stūpas and the saṅgha. His explanation of the dedication covers generosity, discipline, and the generation of aspiring and engaged bodhicitta, supported throughout by quotations from the sūtras. It was translated by a Nepalese paṇḍita and Chag Lotsāwa.
Reference
Jetāri (slob dpon dze tA rI dgra las rnam par rgyal ba). bodhyāpattideśanāvṛttibodhisattvaśikṣākrama [बोध्यापत्तिदेशनावृत्तिबोधिसत्त्वशिक्षाक्रम]. byang chub kyi ltung ba bshags pa'i 'grel pa byang chub sems dpa'i bslab pa'i rim pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ལྟུང་བ་བཤགས་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་བསླབ་པའི་རིམ་པ།]. [A Running Commentary on the Confession of Transgressions of Bodhi(sattvas) According to Bodhisattva Precepts (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3346 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3346&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
The Sūtra of the Three Heaps (Skt. Triskandhakasūtra; Tib. 'Phags pa phung po gsum pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo, Toh 284) is a Mahāyāna liturgical sūtra set at hermitage called chos kyi dbye dgon pa. Its first part is an extended practice in which the practitioner offers homage, makes offerings, confesses all obscuring karma, rejoices in the virtue of all beings, exhorts the buddhas to turn the wheel of Dharma, and supplicates them not to pass into nirvāṇa. The practitioner then takes all roots of virtue as their own, dedicates them to awakening, and generates bodhicitta on the model of past buddhas and bodhisattvas. In the second part, Mañjuśrī teaches the bodhisattva Sarvadharmapratijñāsthita the "irreproachable" heaps of confession, rejoicing, exhortation, supplication, and dedication, understood in the light of emptiness and non-apprehension.
This text should be distinguished from the popular confession liturgy addressed to the thirty-five buddhas, widely recited as the "Three Heaps" or Bodhisattva's Confession of Downfalls. That liturgy circulates under the same Tibetan title, 'Phags pa phung po gsum pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo, but its content is an excerpt from the Upāliparipṛcchā (Toh 68), which itself calls the practice the "Dharma discourse of the Three Heaps." It is the Upāliparipṛcchā passage, not Toh 284, that Śāntideva quotes in the Śikṣāsamuccaya (ch. 8) and prescribes for recitation three times by day and three times by night in the Bodhicaryāvatāra (5.98).
