Translation Memory:006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter/241
006-Tsadra-BCA-Com-WisdomChapter/241 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 | Now certain texts say that it is necessary to add "merely manifest” to "defilements,”69That is, in stanza 45, "If through removal of [merely manifest] defilement you are freed, your freedom should occur at once.” and that it is not admissible to interpret this text as referring to the Arhats.70See, for example, Tsongkhapa’s commentary on the Madhyamakāvatāra and the commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra by Gyaltsap Dharma Rinchen. This however is just a case of forcing the root text so as to make it comply with the opinion expressed in those texts. The opponent in the debate (the Shrāvakas) are not themselves asserting that they are liberated through the abandonment of merely manifest defilements, with the result that the consequence being leveled at them becomes irrelevant. Moreover, all the Indian commentaries are unanimous in saying that this passage refers to the Arhats like Maudgalyāyana.71That is, all the eight Indian commentaries translated into Tibetan and preserved in the Tengyur. Consequently, this is an important key point of the text and is also established by reasoning. It is therefore not open to speculation.72Tsongkhapa’s view, as expressed in the eight difficult points, or special propositions, of the Prāsaṅgika teaching, is that the practitioners of the lesser vehicle need to have a full realization of the phenomenal no-self in order to attain arhatship, the complete liberation from samsara. When he discusses this matter in the Dgongs pa rab bsal, his commentary on the Madhyamakāvatāra, he pointedly cites the present passage of the "Wisdom Chapter” as a proof text. According to him, this stanza does not refer to the Arhats. Shāntideva’s interlocutors in the debate are merely deluded Hīnayāna practitioners who mistakenly think that they gain liberation through the abandonment of "merely manifest” defilement. According to Mipham, this interpretation is mistaken on two counts. First, it clearly diverges from the consensus of the Indian commentaries, notably that of Prajñākaramati, which unanimously declare that this stanza does refer to the Arhats. Second, the argument is itself faulty, Mipham believes, since it requires the intercalation of the rider "merely manifest” in a position where there is no reason to suppose that Shāntideva intended it. This point is discussed at length in Question 3 of Mipham’s reply to Drakar Tulku. |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 9 |
| RootTextVerseNum | 47 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SegmentOrder | 241 |
| SourcePageNumber | 57 |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 2.1.2.2 |
| Tibetan | འདི་ལ་ཉོན་མོངས་མངོན་གྱུར་ཙམ་སྤངས་པས་གྲོལ་ན་ཞེས་སྦྱར་དགོས་ཀྱི། དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ལ་སྦྱར་བ་མི་འཐད་ཅེས་དཔེ་ལ་ལར་བཤད་ཀྱང་རང་གི་ཞེ་འདོད་དང་མཐུན་པར་ཁྲིད་པ་ཙམ་སྟེ། ཕ་རོལ་པོས་ཀྱང་མངོན་གྱུར་ཙམ་སྤངས་པས་གྲོལ་བར་མི་འདོད་བཞིན་དུ་ཐལ་བ་དེ་འདྲ་འབྲེལ་མེད་དུ་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། དགྲ་བཅོམ་མཽ་གལ་ལྟ་བུ་ལ་སྦྱར་ཏེ་རྒྱ་འགྲེལ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཞལ་འཆམས་པར་བཀྲལ་ཞིང་རིགས་པས་ཀྱང་གྲུབ་པའི་གནད་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན་པས་པྲ་ཡས་པར་མི་བྱའོ། ། |
| TranslationChapter | The Ketaka Jewel |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | A refutation of objections made against the Mahāyāna, which asserts emptiness |
| TranslationPageNumber | 125 |
| Wylie | di la nyon mongs mngon gyur tsam spangs pas grol na zhes sbyar dgos kyi/_dgra bcom pa la sbyar ba mi 'thad ces dpe la lar bshad kyang rang gi zhe 'dod dang mthun par khrid pa tsam ste/_pha rol pos kyang mngon gyur tsam spangs pas grol bar mi 'dod bzhin du thal ba de 'dra 'brel med du 'gyur zhing /_dgra bcom mau gal lta bu la sbyar te rgya 'grel thams cad zhal 'chams par bkral zhing rigs pas kyang grub pa'i gnad chen po yin pas pra yas par mi bya'o/_/ |
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| Parameter | Value |
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| 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 |
