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English	Of course, it is in the Mahāyāna that the emptiness of all phenomena is expounded, and the Shrāvakas reject it because it frightens them. They have no understanding of this kind of emptiness and, on the contrary, they argue against it, boasting that they realize the personal no-self. This is a useless argument because, if emptiness is rejected, there is no possible antidote able to uproot the defilements completely. This is why the Prajñāpāramitā scriptures affirm that those who retain a belief in the reality of things are incapable of attaining any of the three types of enlightenment. As a matter of fact, even the attainment of the Shrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas cannot be reached without relying on emptiness—the perfection of wisdom—which is for this reason referred to as the mother of the four kinds of noble beings. The arguments for this will be given later.
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Tibetan	ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ན་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་དུ་བཤད་པ་ལ་སྐྲག་ཅིང་སྤངས་ནས་དེ་འདྲའི་སྟོང་ཉིད་དེ་མ་རྟོགས་ཀྱང་གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་མེད་རྟོགས་པ་ཡོད་པར་རློམས་ནས་རྩོད་པའོ། །དེ་འདྲའི་རྩོད་པ་ནི་གྱི་ན་སྟེ། གང་གི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་སྤངས་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ན་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་རྩ་བ་ནས་སྤོངས་ནུས་པའི་གཉེན་པོ་མི་སྲིད་པས་སོ། །དེས་ན་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡུམ་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལུང་རྣམས་ལས་ཀྱང་། དངོས་པོའི་འདུ་ཤེས་ཅན་ལ་ཐར་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་གསུམ་གང་ཡང་རུང་བ་མེད་པར་གསུངས་པ་དང་། ཉན་ཐོས་དང་རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་འབྲས་བུ་དག་ཀྱང་ཤེར་ཕྱིན་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་འདི་ལ་མ་བརྟེན་པར་ཐོབ་པར་མི་ནུས་པས་འདི་འཕགས་བཞི་སྐྱེད་པའི་ཡུམ་དུ་གསུངས་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ། །རིགས་པ་ནི་ཕྱིས་འཆད་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །
TranslationChapter	The Ketaka Jewel
TranslationChapterSubsection	A refutation of objections made against the Mahāyāna, which asserts emptiness
TranslationPageNumber	115
Wylie	theg pa chen po na chos thams cad stong pa nyid du bshad pa la skrag cing spangs nas de 'dra'i stong nyid de ma rtogs kyang gang zag gi bdag med rtogs pa yod par rloms nas rtsod pa'o/_/de 'dra'i rtsod pa ni gyi na ste/_gang gi phyir na stong pa nyid spangs pa'i pha rol na nyon mongs pa rtsa ba nas spongs nus pa'i gnyen po mi srid pas so/_/des na rgyal ba'i yum la sogs pa lung rnams las kyang /_dngos po'i 'du shes can la thar pa byang chub gsum gang yang rung ba med par gsungs pa dang /_nyan thos dang rang sangs rgyas kyi 'bras bu dag kyang sher phyin stong pa nyid 'di la ma brten par thob par mi nus pas 'di 'phags bzhi skyed pa'i yum du gsungs pa'i phyir ro/_/rigs pa ni phyis 'chad par 'gyur ro/_/
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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།
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SourceVersionLabel	Mipam Gyatso (1846 - 1912)
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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

Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Pratipakṣa - An antidote or remedy that contributes or supports the elimination or pacification of a particular ailment or affliction. Skt प्रतिपक्ष  Tib གཉེན་པོ་  Ch 對治  

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Āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt आवरण  Tib སྒྲིབ་པ་  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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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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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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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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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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Gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt गोत्र  Tib རིགས་  Ch 鍾姓,種性  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Mi pham rgya mtsho (མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་). shes rab le'u'i tshig don go sla bar rnam par bshad pa nor bu ke ta ka [ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་ཚིག་དོན་གོ་སླ་བར་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་ཀེ་ཏ་ཀ།]. [The Ketaka Jewel: An Easy to Understand Explanation of the Words and Meaning of the Wisdom Chapter].

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Mi pham rgya mtsho (མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་). shes rab le'u'i tshig don go sla bar rnam par bshad pa nor bu ke ta ka [ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་ཚིག་དོན་གོ་སླ་བར་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་ཀེ་ཏ་ཀ།]. [The Ketaka Jewel: An Easy to Understand Explanation of the Words and Meaning of the Wisdom Chapter].

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Mi pham rgya mtsho (མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་). shes rab le'u'i tshig don go sla bar rnam par bshad pa nor bu ke ta ka [ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་ཚིག་དོན་གོ་སླ་བར་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ནོར་བུ་ཀེ་ཏ་ཀ།]. [The Ketaka Jewel: An Easy to Understand Explanation of the Words and Meaning of the Wisdom Chapter].

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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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