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006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter/224 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	If one considers the matter carefully, it will be understood that the absence of a personal self and the absence of a phenomenal self are both emptinesses of something that is dependently imputed. They have the same taste, and there is absolutely no difference between them. Therefore, the Shrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas do indeed possess a realization of the phenomenal no-self, or emptiness. This is established on the basis of factual evidence. For if they were without such a realization, they would be unable to overcome the defilements. One has to understand that the realization of the emptiness (the lack of intrinsic being) of the person achieved by the Shrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha Arhats is just one instance of the phenomenal no-self, the emptiness of phenomena. On the other hand, it is altogether inappropriate to think that the Shrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas realize the emptiness of all objects of knowledge such as the aggregates.56That is, the partless particles of which the aggregates are composed, according to the Hīnayāna tenet systems. This is a reference to one of Tsongkhapa’s eight difficult points of the Prāsaṅgika system, according to which the Arhats are said to have a full realization of emptiness on a par with that of the Bodhisattvas. This position, which Mipham strenuously rejects, will be discussed in the sequel.
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Tibetan	ལེགས་པར་བརྟགས་ན་བདག་མེད་གཉིས་ཀའང་བརྟེན་ནས་བཏགས་པའི་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཙམ་དུ་རོ་གཅིག་ཅིང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པ་ལ་དགོངས་ནས་ཉན་རང་ལ་ཆོས་བདག་མེད་དམ་སྟོང་ཉིད་རྟོགས་པ་ཡོད་དེ། དེ་མེད་ན་ཉོན་མོངས་ཀྱང་སྤོང་མི་ནུས་པར་དངོས་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་རིགས་པས་བསྒྲུབས་པས་སོ། །དེ་ལ་འདིར་ཉན་རང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པས་གང་ཟག་རང་བཞིན་མེད་པར་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་དུ་རྟོགས་པ་དེ་ཆོས་བདག་མེད་ཀྱི་བྱེ་བྲག་ཀྱང་ཡིན་སྟོང་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ཡིན་པར་གོ་དགོས་ཀྱི། ཕུང་སོགས་ཤེས་བྱ་མཐའ་དག་སྟོང་པར་རྟོགས་པ་ཡིན་པར་ནི་རྣམ་པ་ཀུན་ཏུ་མི་རུང་བར་འགྱུར་སྟེ། བདག་མེད་འདི་ནི་འགྲོ་བ་རྣམས་དགྲོལ་ཕྱིར། །ཞེས་པའི་ཐད་ཀྱི་
TranslationChapter	The Ketaka Jewel
TranslationChapterSubsection	A refutation of objections made against the Mahāyāna, which asserts emptiness
TranslationPageNumber	120
Wylie	legs par brtags na bdag med gnyis ka'ang brten nas btags pa'i stong pa nyid tsam du ro gcig cing khyad par ci yang med pa la dgongs nas nyan rang la chos bdag med dam stong nyid rtogs pa yod de/_de med na nyon mongs kyang spong mi nus par dngos stobs kyi rigs pas bsgrubs pas so/_/de la 'dir nyan rang dgra bcom pas gang zag rang bzhin med par stong pa nyid du rtogs pa de chos bdag med kyi bye brag kyang yin stong nyid kyang yin par go dgos kyi/_phung sogs shes bya mtha' dag stong par rtogs pa yin par ni rnam pa kun tu mi rung bar 'gyur ste/_bdag med 'di ni 'gro ba rnams dgrol phyir/_/zhes pa'i thad kyi
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AuthorLabel	Mipam Gyatso 1846 - 1912
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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།
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

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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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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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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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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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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Arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt अर्हत्  Tib དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ།  Ch 阿羅漢  

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Hīnayāna - The mainstream teachings and the early schools of Buddhism which primarily taught individual liberation through practice-focused renunciation and monasticism, considered lesser than the later movement of the Greater Vehicle (Mahāyāna), which professed enlightenment for all sentient beings and promoted compassion. Skt हीनयान  Tib ཐེག་དམན།  Ch 小乘  

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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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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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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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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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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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