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चतुरङ्गधर्मचर्या
Caturaṅgadharmacaryā
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:
- Taking Refuge — a formal refuge formula in the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha, framed as the foundation of practice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
| Reference | 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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| People | Mitrayogin, Tropu Lotsāwa Jampai Pal |
