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English	The Madhyamikas admit that the Shrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha Arhats are no longer subject to rebirth as the result of karma and defilement. They deny however that they come to the peace of nirvana like lamps that are extinguished, as the Shrāvaka believe. On the contrary, they have all the causes unhindered for the production of bodies of a mental nature. How so? It is because while the craving (sred pa) that is in the continuum of the[p.125]The Wisdom Chapter 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. Arhats is not defiled in being engendered through self-clinging, they still have an undefiled ignorance, which consists in the fact that their knowledge of objects is impeded by the effects of time and distance—as the Shrāvakas themselves admit. This being so, why should they not have an undefiled craving? Since they have not reversed the cause, namely, ignorance, they are unable to overcome its effect.67Maudgalyāyana was ignorant of where his mother had been reborn, and Shariputra did not know when the seed of liberation had arisen in a certain person’s mind-stream. Khenpo Kunzang Pelden mentions this in his commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra. See Kunzang Pelden, Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech, 16. Thus it is shown that Arhats suffer from a limitation in their knowledge. As it is said in the Abhidharmakosha, they are not omniscient. Since the Arhats are beyond samsara, however, their ignorance cannot be described as defiled. And, Shāntideva asks, just as the Arhats with remainder have an undefiled ignorance, why should they not also have an undefiled craving?
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Tibetan	སྐྱོན་མེད་དེ་སྔར་གྱི་ལས་ཉོན་གྱིས་འཕགས་པའི་སྐུ་ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ལས་ཀྱི་ནུས་པ་འབྱིན་པར་མཐོང་ཡང་། རེ་ཞིག་ཡང་སྲིད་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པའི་རྒྱུ་སྲེད་པ་ཡིན་པས་དེ་མེད་ཅིང་དེའི་ཕྱིར་སྲིད་པ་གཞན་དུ་མཚམས་མི་སྦྱོར་ཞེས་ངེས་པ་ཉིད་དུ་སྨྲའོ་ཞེ་ན། ཉན་རང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་འདི་ལས་ཉོན་གྱིས་འཕངས་པས་སྲིད་པ་རྣམས་སུ་མཚམས་མི་སྦྱོར་དུ་ཆུག་ཀྱང་། འོན་ཀྱང་འདི་ཁྱོད་རང་གི་འདོད་པ་ལྟར་མར་མེ་རྒྱུན་ཆད་པ་བཞིན་དུ་ཞི་བར་འགྱུར་བ་མིན་ཏེ་འདི་ལ་ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ལུས་འགྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་ཚོགས་པ་ཚང་ཞིང་གེགས་མེད་པ་ཡོད་པའི་ཕྱིར། གང་ཞེ་ན་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྲེད་པ་འདི་ངར་འཛིན་གྱིས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་ཉོན་མོངས་ཅན་མིན་ཡང་། དཔེར་ན་ཉོན་མོངས་ཅན་མིན་པའི་ཀུན་རྨོངས་ཏེ་ཡུལ་དུས་བསྐལ་པའི་དངོས་པོས་མི་ཤེས་པའི་རྨོངས་པ་ཡོད་པར་འདོད་པ་[p.57]Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka (Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang 1993) Mi pham rgya mtsho. Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1993. བཞིན་དུ་སྲེད་པ་ཉོན་མོངས་ཅན་མིན་པའང་ཅི་སྟེ་མེད། དེའི་ཕྱིར་རྒྱུ་ཀུན་རྨོངས་མ་ལོག་པས་དེའི་འབྲས་བུའི་ཆ་ཡང་མི་ལྡོག་སྟེ།
TranslationChapter	The Ketaka Jewel
TranslationChapterSubsection	A refutation of objections made against the Mahāyāna, which asserts emptiness
TranslationPageNumber	124
Wylie	skyon med de sngar gyi las nyon gyis 'phags pa'i sku tshe 'di la las kyi nus pa 'byin par mthong yang /_re zhig yang srid nye bar len pa'i rgyu sred pa yin pas de med cing de'i phyir srid pa gzhan du mtshams mi sbyor zhes nges pa nyid du smra'o zhe na/_nyan rang dgra bcom pa 'di las nyon gyis 'phangs pas srid pa rnams su mtshams mi sbyor du chug kyang /_'on kyang 'di khyod rang gi 'dod pa ltar mar me rgyun chad pa bzhin du zhi bar 'gyur ba min te 'di la yid kyi rang bzhin gyi lus 'grub pa'i rgyu tshogs pa tshang zhing gegs med pa yod pa'i phyir/_gang zhe na dgra bcom pa'i rgyud kyi sred pa 'di ngar 'dzin gyis bskyed pa'i nyon mongs can min yang /_dper na nyon mongs can min pa'i kun rmongs te yul dus bskal pa'i dngos pos mi shes pa'i rmongs pa yod par 'dod pa [p.57]Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka (Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang 1993) Mi pham rgya mtsho. Spyod 'jug sher 'grel ke ta ka. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1993. bzhin du sred pa nyon mongs can min pa'ang ci ste med/_de'i phyir rgyu kun rmongs ma log pas de'i 'bras bu'i cha yang mi ldog ste/
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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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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
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TransMemCreator	Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi
TransMemDate	1 November 2023
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TransMemType	Commentary

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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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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Avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt अविद्या  Tib མ་རིག་པ་  Ch 無明  

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Bīja - A seed, commonly used figuratively in the sense of something which has the potential to develop or grow, and likewise as the basic cause for this development or growth. Skt बीज  Tib ས་བོན་  Ch 無漏種  

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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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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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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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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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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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