Translation Memory:002-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Nectar/184
002-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Nectar/184 ID: 002-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Nectar <br> Date: 10 June 2022 <br> Creator: Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation
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| English | When we reflect with the help of examples, it is clear that the attainment of a human existence is more difficult and rare than the chance occurrence of a blind turtle that lives in the depths of the ocean rising to the surface (which it does only once in a hundred years) to find its head inside a wooden yoke floating at random on the sea. Alternatively, considered in terms of numerical comparisons, the quantity of beings in the hell realms are as the particles of dust upon the surface of the entire earth. Proportionately, the pretas or hungry ghosts are like the grains of sand in the river Ganges, whereas animals are like the grains in a vat of beer. The asuras or demigods are like snowflakes in a blizzard, while the gods and humans are like the motes of dust on one’s fingernail. Again, another comparison may be made, this time according to the number of stars visible at night, as compared with the stars that can be seen by day.54Proportionately, if the stars visible at night correspond to beings in hell, the stars visible during the day correspond to the pretas. Again, if the stars at night correspond to the pretas, the stars visible during the day correspond to animals. And so on. Reflecting thus, we should be conscious of how difficult it is to acquire a human existence. |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 1 |
| RootTextVerseNum | 4 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SourcePageNumber | 174 |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 1.1. |
| SourceSegmentOrder | 184 |
| Tibetan | དཔེ་ཡང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོའི་གཏིང་དུ་གནས་པའི་རུས་སྦལ་ལོང་བ་ལོ་བརྒྱ་རེའི་མཚམས་སུ་མཚོ་སྟེང་དུ་ལན་རེ་འོང་བའི་མགྲིན་པ་གཉའ་ཤིང་གི་བུ་ག་དང་འཕྲད་པ་ལས་ཀྱང་རྙེད་དཀའ་བ་ལ་བསམ་ན་དང༌། གྲངས་ཡང་དམྱལ་བ་ན་ས་ཆེན་པོའི་རྡུལ་ལྟ་བུ་དང༌། ཡི་དྭགས་ན་ཆུ་བོ་གང་གའི་བྱེ་མ་སྙེད་ལྟ་བུ་དང༌། དུད་འགྲོ་ན་ཆང་འགག་གི་སྦང་མ་ལྟ་བུ། ལྷ་མ་ཡིན་ལ་ཁ་བ་བུ་ཡུག་འཚུབ་པ་ལྟ་བུ། ལྷ་མི་ལ་སེན་མོའི་སྟེང་གི་རྡུལ་ལྟ་བུ་དང༌། ཡང་ཉིན་མཚན་གྱི་སྐར་མའི་དཔེས་གྲངས་མང་ཉུང་ལ་བསམ་ན་རྙེད་པར་ཤིན་ཏུ་དཀའ་བ་འདི་ད་རེས་བླ་མ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་དང་རང་གི་ལས་དབང་བཟང་པོ་ཞིག་གིས་སྐྱེས་བུའི་སྟེ། |
| TranslationChapter | 1 |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | The Human Body as a Basis for the Generation of Bodhichitta |
| TranslationCitation | Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva. By Kunzang Pelden. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2007. |
| TranslationPageNumber | 44 |
| TranslationPublishedYear | 2007 |
| TranslationWikiPage | The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech |
| Translator | Fletcher, W.; Blankleder, H. |
| Wylie | dpe yang rgya mtsho chen po'i gting du gnas pa'i rus sbal long ba lo brgya re'i mtshams su mtsho steng du lan re 'ong ba'i mgrin pa gnya' shing gi bu ga dang 'phrad pa las kyang rnyed dka' ba la bsam na dang /_grangs yang dmyal ba na sa chen po'i rdul lta bu dang /_yi dwags na chu bo gang ga'i bye ma snyed lta bu dang /_dud 'gro na chang 'gag gi sbang ma lta bu/_lha ma yin la kha ba bu yug 'tshub pa lta bu/_lha mi la sen mo'i steng gi rdul lta bu dang /_yang nyin mtshan gyi skar ma'i dpes grangs mang nyung la bsam na rnyed par shin tu dka' ba 'di da res bla ma dkon mchog gi thugs rje dang rang gi las dbang bzang po zhig gis skyes bu'i ste/ |
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| Parameter | Value |
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| AuthorLabel | Kunzang Palden 1862 - 1943 |
| DuplicateRootTranslation | false |
| Notes | First Translation Memory Created by Tsadra Foundation. |
| RootSourceTransMem | 001-Tsadra-BCA-Root-Padmakara |
| RootTextWikiPage | Texts/Bodhicaryāvatāra |
| ShortTitle | Padmakara (2006) |
| SourceAuthor | People/Kun bzang dpal ldan |
| SourceCitation | Kun bzang dpal ldan. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i tshig 'grel 'jam dbyangs bla ma'i zhal lung bdud rtsi'i thig pa. IN byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. khreng tu'u: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990. BDRC W21985 |
| SourcePublishedYear | 1990 |
| SourceTitleTibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་ཚིག་འགྲེལ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཐིག་པ། |
| SourceTitleWylie | Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i tshig 'grel 'jam dbyangs bla ma'i zhal lung bdud rtsi'i thig pa |
| SourceVersionLabel | Kunzang Palden (1862 - 1943) |
| SourceWikiPage | Books/Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990) |
| TranslationCitation | Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech: A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva. By Kunzang Pelden. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2007. |
| TranslationPublishedYear | 2007 |
| TranslationWikiPage | Books/The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech |
| Translator | People/Blankleder, H.;People/Fletcher, W.;People/Padmakara Translation Group |
| TransMemCreator | Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi |
| TransMemDate | 10 June 2022 |
| TransMemID | 002-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Nectar |
| TransMemNum | 002 |
| TransMemOrigin | Tsadra Foundation |
| TransMemType | Commentary |
