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English	Furthermore, if one succeeds in internalizing correctly the meaning of the perfection of wisdom, namely, emptiness beyond all elaboration—which, as the essence of the utterances of the Tathāgata, is like a priceless jewel—one will be able, by that fact alone, to assimilate all the teachings, whether brief or long, of the entire Dharma. It is said that one will gather all the qualities of the path and result, which are limitless like an ocean: the powers of memory, meditative absorptions, and preternatural knowledges; great compassion, the transcendent virtues, the grounds of realization, the skill in means that resides in neither extreme, and so on. So if it is right to say that through the mere presence of such a realization in the mind-stream, all these things are gathered, it would be right to conclude that if the Shrāvakas have such a realization, they possess all those qualities as well—and there is certainly no need to talk about merely understanding the various arguments that establish suchness. But compared with the Great Vehicle, the power of the Shrāvakas is meager. Their accumulations are of a lower order, and in their scriptures, access to the reasoning that produces the understanding of suchness is not developed. As a means of liberating themselves from samsara, they strive earnestly in the realization of no more than the personal no-self.[p.259]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. So how is it that although they do not strive in emptiness as this is taught in the Great Vehicle, they are able, in such a short space of time—two or three lives and so on—to realize directly the final truth of things—whereas those who have a full complement of the excellent qualities that the Shrāvakas do not have, and who, having sharp faculties, have entered the path of the Great Vehicle, are able to realize the truth only after one immeasurable kalpa? And now that we have asked Drakar Tulku and the Gelugpas this question, let them give us their confident answer loud and clear!
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Tibetan	གཞན་ཡང་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་གསུང་གི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་སྙིང་པོར་གྱུར་པ་རིན་ཆེན་རིན་ཐང་མེད་པ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྤྲོས་བྲལ་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་དོན་ལེགས་པར་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་ན་དེ་ཁོ་ནས་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་མདོ་དང་རྒྱས་པ་ཁོང་དུ་ཆུད་པར་འགྱུར་བ་དང་། གཟུངས་དང་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་དང་མངོན་པར་ཤེས་པ་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དང་ས་དང་མཐའ་གཉིས་ལ་མི་གནས་པའི་ཐབས་མཁས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལམ་དང་འབྲས་བུའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལྟ་བུ་སྡུད་པར་གསུངས་པས་ན། དེ་གང་གི་རྒྱུད་ལ་ལྡན་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས་དེ་དག་སྡུད་པར་རིགས་པས་ན་ཉན་ཐོས་པ་ལའང་དེ་འདྲའི་རྟོགས་པ་ཡོད་ན་ཡོན་ཏན་དེ་དག་ཀྱང་འབྱུང་བར་རིགས་ཏེ་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རིགས་པའི་རྣམ་གྲངས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཤེས་པ་ཙམ་ལྟ་ཅི་སྨོས་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །འདི་ལྟར་ཉན་ཐོས་པ་དག་ཐེག་ཆེན་པ་ལས་དབང་པོ་ནི་རྟུལ། ཚོགས་ནི་དམན། དེ་དག་གི་གཞུང་ན་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་རྟོགས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རིགས་པའི་སྒོ་ནི་མི་རྒྱས། རང་ཉིད་འཁོར་བ་ལས་ཐར་པའི་ཐབས་[p.14-2-39b]སུ་གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་མེད་ཙམ་རྟོགས་པ་ལ་ནན་ཏན་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་ཆེན་ནས་བསྟན་པའི་སྟོང་ཉིད་ལ་ནན་ཏན་ལྷུར་མི་བྱེད་པས་ཀྱང་ཚེ་གཉིས་སམ་གསུམ་ལ་སོགས་པ་དུས་ཐུང་ངུས་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཀྱི་བདེན་པ་མཐར་ཐུག་པ་མངོན་སུམ་དུ་མཐོང་ནུས་ལ། སྔ་མ་ལས་བཟློག་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་རབ་ཏུ་ཚང་བ་ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་ལམ་དུ་ཞུགས་པའི་དབང་པོ་རྣོན་པོས་ཀྱང་བསྐལ་པ་གྲངས་མེད་གཅིག་གི་བར་དུ་བདེན་དོན་མཐོང་མི་ནུས་པ་ཅི་ཡིན་ཞེས་ཁྱེད་ལ་འདྲི་ན་མགྲིན་པ་གཟེངས་བསྟོད་དེ་སྨྲ་བར་མཛོད་ཅིག །
TranslationChapter	LDS - Question 5
TranslationPageNumber	258
Wylie	gzhan yang de bzhin gshegs pa'i gsung gi mdzod kyi snying por gyur pa rin chen rin thang med pa lta bu'i shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa spros bral stong pa nyid kyi don legs par khong du chud na de kho nas chos thams cad kyi mdo dang rgyas pa khong du chud par 'gyur ba dang /_gzungs dang ting nge 'dzin dang mngon par shes pa dang snying rje chen po dang pha rol tu phyin pa dang sa dang mtha' gnyis la mi gnas pa'i thabs mkhas la sogs pa lam dang 'bras bu'i yon tan rgya mtsho lta bu sdud par gsungs pas na/_de gang gi rgyud la ldan pa tsam gyis de dag sdud par rigs pas na nyan thos pa la'ang de 'dra'i rtogs pa yod na yon tan de dag kyang 'byung bar rigs te de kho na nyid sgrub byed kyi rigs pa'i rnam grangs sna tshogs shes pa tsam lta ci smos par 'gyur ro/_/'di ltar nyan thos pa dag theg chen pa las dbang po ni rtul/_tshogs ni dman/_de dag gi gzhung na de kho na nyid rtogs byed kyi rigs pa'i sgo ni mi rgyas/_rang nyid 'khor ba las thar pa'i thabs [p.14-2-39b]su gang zag gi bdag med tsam rtogs pa la nan tan byed kyi theg chen nas bstan pa'i stong nyid la nan tan lhur mi byed pas kyang tshe gnyis sam gsum la sogs pa dus thung ngus chos nyid kyi bden pa mthar thug pa mngon sum du mthong nus la/_snga ma las bzlog pa'i yon tan rab tu tshang ba theg chen gyi lam du zhugs pa'i dbang po rnon pos kyang bskal pa grangs med gcig gi bar du bden don mthong mi nus pa ci yin zhes khyed la 'dri na mgrin pa gzengs bstod de smra bar mdzod cig_/
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ShortTitle	Light of the Day Star (2017)
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SourceTitleTibetan	བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ།
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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.
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TransMemCreator	Migmar;Gwen;Marcus;Jeremi
TransMemDate	22 March 2024
TransMemID	007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar
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TransMemOrigin	Tsadra Foundation
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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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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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Smṛtiḥ - Mindfulness is the ability to keep a chosen object or the present moment in mind without forgetting it. It acts as a stable foundation for meditation and daily awareness. Skt स्मृति  Tib དྲན་པ་  Ch 念  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Tathatā - Suchness itself, absolute reality, or thusness, as in the ultimate state of being of phenomena. Skt तथता  Tib དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་  

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Anumāna - Inference (Skt. anumāna; T. rjes dpag) is a way of knowing something indirectly, using logic and reasoning rather than direct experience. For example, if you see smoke rising from a distant mountain, you can infer that there is a fire there, even if you can't see the fire directly yourself. It's a key way to understand things that are hidden from our senses. It is used in the Buddhist tradition to gain insight into deeper levels of reality of self and phenomena. Skt अनुमान  Tib རྗེས་དཔག་  Ch 比量  

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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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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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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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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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