Translation Memory:007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar/24
007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar/24 ID: 007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar <br> Date: 22 March 2024 <br> Creator: Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation
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| English | When it is said that “Things are established according to their own characteristics,” it should be understood that the expression “own characteristics” is used in three ways. First, in the sense known to logicians, the defining characteristic of a thing is said to be its causal efficiency. Second, in the Abhidharma and elsewhere, when a defining attribute is attached to the name of a thing (as in the case of heat ascribed to “fire”),12That is, mtshon bya. Sometimes this term is rendered misleadingly by the Latin gerundive definiendum (that which is to be defined), which would normally refer to the definable thing itself. By contrast, the Tibetan term mtshon bya refers to the name, not the thing named. The defining characteristic (mtshan nyid) is that which defines the name (mtshon bya), and the basis, or locus, of the definition, or defining characteristic, is the specific object. this is said to be the thing’s “own characteristic.” Finally, in a Madhyamaka context, when the nature (ngo bo), or character (rang bzhin), or defining characteristic (mtshan nyid), of something is able to withstand analysis when investigated with a view to its ultimate status, the thing in question is said to be “established according to its characteristics.” But these three cases all converge in the sense that the characteristic to be examined (whether it is established or not) is never something separable from the nature of the (actual) thing in question. When the Svātantrikas explain that a phenomenon is “established according to its characteristics,” they are only applying the expression to the actual thing on the conventional level. Conventionally, fire, which performs the function of being hot and burning, is established as possessing the characteristic of being blazing, red, and hot. With regard to that, the simple nature of the thing as it appears—without distinguishing the aspects of its name, defining characteristic, and so on—is called its “own nature.” |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 9 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SourcePageNumber | 14-2-5b |
| SourceSegmentOrder | 24 |
| Tibetan | དེ་ཡང་རང་མཚན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པ་ཞེས་པ་འདིར། རྟོག་གེ་ལ་གྲགས་པ་དོན་བྱེད་ནུས་པ་ལ་རང་གི་མཚན་ཉིད་དུ་བརྗོད་པ་དང་། མངོན་པ་སོགས་ལས་གསུངས་པ་མེའི་ཚ་བ་ལྟ་བུ་མཚོན་བྱའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ལ་རང་མཚན་དུ་གསུང་བ་དང་། དབུ་མ་པས་ཆོས་རང་གི་ངོ་བོའམ་རང་བཞིན་ནམ་མཚན་ཉིད་གང་ཞིག་དོན་དམ་དཔྱོད་པས་དཔྱད་[p.14-2-5b]བཟོད་དུ་གྲུབ་པ་ལ་རང་མཚན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པ་ཞེས་བརྡ་སྦྱར་ཚུལ་གསུམ་ཡོད་ཀྱང་། གང་གྲུབ་བམ་མ་གྲུབ་དཔྱད་རྒྱུའི་རང་མཚན་ནི་ཆོས་དེའི་ངོ་བོ་ལས་གཞན་དུ་མེད་པས་གནད་མཐུན་ཏེ། རང་རྒྱུད་པས་རང་མཚན་གྱིས་གྲུབ་པར་བཞེད་པ་ཡང་ཐ་སྙད་དུ་ཆོས་དེའི་ངོ་བོ་ལ་བརྡ་སྦྱར་བ་ཙམ་སྟེ། ཐ་སྙད་དུ་བཙོ་སྲེག་གི་དོན་བྱེད་པའི་མེ་དེ་དམར་འབར་བ་དང་ཚ་བའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཅན་དུ་གྲུབ་པ་དེ་ལ་མཚན་མཚོན་སོགས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་མ་ཕྱེ་བར་ཇི་ལྟར་སྣང་བ་དེའི་ངོ་བོ་ཙམ་གྱི་ཆ་ནས་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་ཞེས་བྱ་ལ། |
| TranslationChapter | LDS - Question 1 |
| TranslationPageNumber | 203 |
| Wylie | de yang rang mtshan gyis grub pa zhes pa 'dir/_rtog ge la grags pa don byed nus pa la rang gi mtshan nyid du brjod pa dang /_mngon pa sogs las gsungs pa me'i tsha ba lta bu mtshon bya'i mtshan nyid la rang mtshan du gsung ba dang /_dbu ma pas chos rang gi ngo bo'am rang bzhin nam mtshan nyid gang zhig don dam dpyod pas dpyad [p.14-2-5b]bzod du grub pa la rang mtshan gyis grub pa zhes brda sbyar tshul gsum yod kyang /_gang grub bam ma grub dpyad rgyu'i rang mtshan ni chos de'i ngo bo las gzhan du med pas gnad mthun te/_rang rgyud pas rang mtshan gyis grub par bzhed pa yang tha snyad du chos de'i ngo bo la brda sbyar ba tsam ste/_tha snyad du btso sreg gi don byed pa'i me de dmar 'bar ba dang tsha ba'i mtshan nyid can du grub pa de la mtshan mtshon sogs kyi rnam pa ma phye bar ji ltar snang ba de'i ngo bo tsam gyi cha nas rang gi ngo bo zhes bya la/ |
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| Parameter | Value |
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| AuthorLabel | Mipam Gyatso 1846 - 1912 |
| DuplicateRootTranslation | false |
| RootSourceTransMem | 001-Tsadra-BCA-Root-Padmakara |
| RootTextWikiPage | Bodhicaryāvatāra |
| ShortTitle | Light of the Day Star (2017) |
| SourceAuthor | People/Mi pham rgya mtsho |
| SourceTitleTibetan | བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ། |
| SourceTitleWylie | brgal lan nyin byed snang ba |
| SourceVersionLabel | Mipam Gyatso (1846 - 1912) |
| SourceWikiPage | Texts/Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba |
| 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 | 22 March 2024 |
| TransMemID | 007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar |
| TransMemNum | 007 |
| TransMemOrigin | Tsadra Foundation |
| TransMemType | Commentary |
