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चतुरप्रमाणटीका

Caturapramāṇaṭīkā

ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ

tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa

An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)

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A brief guide to cultivating immeasurable loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity; it is attributed to the Indian master Buddhagupta (aka Buddhaguhya) and included within the Middle Way section of the Tengyur (Toh 3914). (Source Accessed Aug 13, 2025)

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Buddhaguhya (slob dpon bud+d+ha gup+ta). caturapramāṇaṭīkā [चतुरप्रमाणटीका]. tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa [ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3259 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3259&typ=2.

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Samye Translations (Laura Swan), trans. "An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables." By Buddhagupta. Bodhicitta Series. Lotsawa House, 2011. Revised and edited for Lotsawa House, 2016. https://www.lotsawahouse.org/indian-masters/buddhagupta/four-immeasurables-commentary.

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The four immeasurables—loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity—are foundational practices in Buddhism that help practitioners cultivate bodhicitta, the awakened mind dedicated to achieving enlightenment for all beings' benefit. These qualities expand practitioners' capacity for unconditional love and wisdom, forming essential preparation for the bodhisattva path of selfless service to liberate all sentient beings from suffering.

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Buddhaguhya (slob dpon bud+d+ha gup+ta). caturapramāṇaṭīkā [चतुरप्रमाणटीका]. tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa [ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3259 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3259&typ=2.

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Buddhaguhya (slob dpon bud+d+ha gup+ta). caturapramāṇaṭīkā [चतुरप्रमाणटीका]. tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa [ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3259 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3259&typ=2.

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Mettā - The unconditional wish for all sentient beings to experience happiness and the causes of happiness. It is a form of universal, selfless love and is one of the four immeasurables (or sublime abodes). Skt मैत्री  Tib བྱམས་པ་  Ch 慈  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Anumodanā - The practice of feeling genuine joy and appreciation for the good deeds, success, and positive qualities of others. It is a powerful way to overcome jealousy and build positive energy by simply delighting in the virtue found in the world. Skt अनुमोदना  Tib རྗེས་སུ་ཡི་རང་བ་  Ch 隨喜  

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Buddhaguhya (slob dpon bud+d+ha gup+ta). caturapramāṇaṭīkā [चतुरप्रमाणटीका]. tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa [ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3259 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3259&typ=2.

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Buddhaguhya (slob dpon bud+d+ha gup+ta). caturapramāṇaṭīkā [चतुरप्रमाणटीका]. tshad med bzhi'i rgya cher 'grel pa [ཚད་མེད་བཞིའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་འགྲེལ་པ]. [An Extensive Commentary on the Four Immeasurables (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3259 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3259&typ=2.

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Mettā - The unconditional wish for all sentient beings to experience happiness and the causes of happiness. It is a form of universal, selfless love and is one of the four immeasurables (or sublime abodes). Skt मैत्री  Tib བྱམས་པ་  Ch 慈  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Mettā - The unconditional wish for all sentient beings to experience happiness and the causes of happiness. It is a form of universal, selfless love and is one of the four immeasurables (or sublime abodes). Skt मैत्री  Tib བྱམས་པ་  Ch 慈  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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