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चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या

Caturaṅgadharmacaryā

ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།

chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa

Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)

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The Caturaṅgadharmacaryā' ("Four-branched Dharma Practice") is a short liturgical text by Śrī Jagatmitrānanda (Mitrayogin), translated into Tibetan by the author himself together with the translator Byams pa'i dpal. It presents a fourfold practice structure intended to be performed in sequence:

1. Taking Refuge — a formal refuge formula in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, framed as the foundation of practice.
2. Confession — acknowledgment of all negative actions accumulated since beginningless time through body, speech, and mind, expressed with regret and a resolve to restrain oneself going forward, for the purpose of purifying the mental continuum.
3. Rejoicing — sympathetic appreciation of the virtuous acts of buddhas, bodhisattvas, śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and ordinary beings throughout all directions of space, praised as a means of generating great merit with little effort.
4. Generating Bodhicitta — arousing the mind of awakening following the example of past protectors, explicitly for the benefit of all sentient beings (framed as "all mothers"), aimed at attaining unsurpassable awakening.

The text closes with a dedication verse directing the accumulated merit toward the pacification of all beings' afflictions and their attainment of the state of "guru of the world" ('gro ba'i bla ma).

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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Śaraṇagamana - Skt शरणगमन  Tib སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་  Ch 皈依  

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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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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས།;རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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Puṇya - The positive energy or potential created through performing good deeds, such as generosity or kindness. In Buddhism, accumulating this positive force is seen as essential for finding happiness in future lives, and crucial as a foundation for following the spiritual path. Skt पुण्य  Tib བསོད་ནམས་  Ch 福;功德  

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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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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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Kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that, when aroused, negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt क्लेश  Tib ཉོན་མོངས་  Ch 煩惱  

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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Mitrayogin (rnal 'byor gyi dbang phyug chen po shrI dza ga ti ma trA nan+da). caturaṅgadharmacaryā [चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या]. chos spyod yan lag bzhi pa [ཆོས་སྤྱོད་ཡན་ལག་བཞི་པ།]. [Four-branched Dharma Practice (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3319 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3319&typ=2.

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