Translation Memory:006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter/159
006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter/159 ID: 006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter <br> Date: 1 November 2023 <br> Creator: Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation
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| English | It is very true that, based on ordinary consciousness, people of limited vision engage in speculation and do indeed entertain such thoughts. They are like elephants taking mud baths. The inconceivable ultimate nature of phenomena is very alarming for those of inferior fortune. It is a way of being that they cannot understand. When it is said that the dharmatā is without real existence (dngos med), they think that this means emptiness in a nihilistic sense. When it is said that it is endowed with appearance, they think that this means that it is truly existent. When it is said that it is the union [of appearance and emptiness], they understand this in the manner of a black thread and a white thread twisted together. And when it is said to be inconceivable, the only thing that comes to their minds is that this is like the view of Hva-shang, according to which nothing exists in any way. But if the profound ultimate nature of phenomena were within the easy grasp of everyone, why has it been taught that it transcends the world and is the sphere of the noble ones, and that it is difficult to understand, difficult to recognize, and that it is beyond conception? This is why the master Nāgārjuna has declared: |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 9 |
| RootTextVerseNum | 33 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SegmentOrder | 159 |
| SourcePageNumber | 37 |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 2.1.2.1.2 |
| Tibetan | རྣམ་ཤེས་ལ་རྟོན་ཅིང་ཚུར་མཐོང་[p.38]Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka (Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang 1993) |
| TranslationChapter | The Ketaka Jewel |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | A refutation of objections to emptiness as the "path” |
| TranslationPageNumber | 109 |
| Wylie | rnam shes la rton cing tshur mthong [p.38]Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka (Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang 1993) |
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| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| AuthorLabel | Mipam Gyatso 1846 - 1912 |
| DuplicateRootTranslation | true |
| RootSourceTransMem | 001-Tsadra-BCA-Root-Padmakara |
| RootTextWikiPage | Bodhicaryāvatāra |
| ShortTitle | Nor bu ke ta ka (2017) |
| SourceAuthor | People/Mi pham rgya mtsho |
| SourceTitleTibetan | ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་ཚིག་དོན་གོ་སླ་བར་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་ཀེ་ཏ་ཀ། |
| SourceTitleWylie | shes rab le'u'i tshig don go sla bar rnam par bshad pa nor bu ke ta ka |
| SourceVersionLabel | Mipam Gyatso (1846 - 1912) |
| SourceWikiPage | Texts/Nor bu ke ta ka |
| TranslationCitation | Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham's Commentary on the Ninth Chapter of "The Way of the Bodhisattva." Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017. |
| TranslationPublishedYear | 2017 |
| TranslationWikiPage | Books/The Wisdom Chapter |
| Translator | People/Blankleder, H.;People/Fletcher, W.;People/Padmakara Translation Group |
| TransMemCreator | Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi |
| TransMemDate | 1 November 2023 |
| TransMemID | 006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter |
| TransMemNum | 006 |
| TransMemOrigin | Tsadra Foundation |
| TransMemType | Commentary |
