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कर्मावरणविशोधनविधिभाष्य
Karmāvaraṇaviśodhanavidhibhāṣya
ལས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཤད་པ།
las kyi sgrib pa rnam par sbyong ba'i cho ga bshad pa
An Explanation on the Ritual of the Purification of Karmic Obstructions (84000)
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The Karmāvaraṇaviśodhanavidhibhāṣya "An Explanation of the Ritual for Purifying Karmic Obscurations" (Tib. Las kyi sgrib pa rnam par sbyong ba'i cho ga bshad pa zhes bya ba; D 4007, 10 folios) is Atiśa's commentary on the Karmāvaraṇaviśuddhisūtra (D 218), presenting and explaining, section by section, a ritual for confessing and purifying karmic obscurations—refuge, prostration, confession, and dedication of merit—to be practiced six times daily, drawing on the four powers of purification and citing Śāntideva and Vasubandhu; it was translated into Tibetan by Atiśa together with the lotsāwa Tshul khrims rgyal ba (Nagtso Lotsāwa).
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Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon dI paM ka ra shrI dz+nyA na). karmāvaraṇaviśodhanavidhibhāṣya [कर्मावरणविशोधनविधिभाष्य]. las kyi sgrib pa rnam par sbyong ba'i cho ga bshad pa [ལས་ཀྱི་སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱོང་བའི་ཆོ་ག་བཤད་པ།]. [An Explanation on the Ritual of the Purification of Karmic Obstructions (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3347 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3347&typ=2.
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The Buddha is residing at Āmrapālī's Grove in Vaiśālī, when Mañjuśrī brings before him the monk Stainless Light, who had been seduced by a prostitute and feels strong remorse for having violated his vows. After the monk confesses his wrongdoing, the Buddha explains the lack of inherent nature of all phenomena and the luminous nature of mind, and the monk Stainless Light gives rise to the mind of enlightenment. At Mañjuśrī's request, the Buddha then explains how bodhisattvas purify obscurations by generating an altruistic mind and realizing the empty nature of all phenomena. He asks Mañjuśrī about his own attainment of patient forbearance in seeing all phenomena as non-arising and recounts the tale of the monk Vīradatta, who, many eons in the past, had engaged in a sexual affair with a girl and even killed a jealous rival before feeling strong remorse. Despite these negative actions, once the empty, non-existent nature of all phenomena had been explained to him by the bodhisattva Liberator from Fear, he was able to generate bodhicitta and attain patient forbearance in seeing all phenomena as non-arising. The Buddha explains that even a person who had enjoyed pleasures and murdered someone would be able to attain patient forbearance in seeing all phenomena as non-arising through practicing this sūtra, which he calls "the Dharma mirror of all phenomena." (Source: 84000)
