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007-Tsadra-BCA-Com-LightDayStar/28 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	Of course, if when examined with the kind of investigation that aims at the ultimate status of things, something were found to exist from its own side—even if it were no more than an atom—it would certainly be truly existent. But from the point of view of reasoning aiming at the ultimate, the Svātantrikas do not in fact accept phenomena established from their own side. If they did, they could not be Madhyamikas. They would not even be on the path of liberation!18In other words, it is a mistake to imply (as Drakar does) that the Svātantrikas are substantialists. Care needs to be taken with this passage. To say that the belief in the real existence of something (something that can withstand ultimate analysis) disqualifies one from the ranks of the Madhyamikas is clear enough. To say that it disqualifies one from the path of liberation, however, is less obvious since it implies (if taken at face value) that the advocates of lower tenet systems cannot attain liberation, a position that is explicitly denied later on in Mipham’s discussion of the realization of the Arhats (see Questions 3 and 4). It is clear therefore that “the path of liberation” in the present context is to be understood broadly as “the Buddhist path.” It is not a reference to the specific question of liberation from samsara.
RootTextChapterNum	9
SegmentFormat	Commentary
SourcePageNumber	14-2-6a
SourceSegmentOrder	28
Tibetan	དོན་དམ་དཔྱོད་པས་དཔྱད་པའི་ཚེ་ཡུལ་རང་ངོས་ནས་གྲུབ་པ་རྡུལ་ཙམ་རྙེད་ནའང་དེ་བདེན་གྲུབ་ཏུ་འགྱུར་མོད།[p.14-2-6a] དོན་དམ་དཔྱོད་པའི་ངོར་རང་ངོས་ནས་གྲུབ་པ་ནི་རང་རྒྱུད་པས་ཀྱང་ཁས་མི་ལེན་ལ་ལེན་ན་དབུ་མ་པར་མི་རུང་ཞིང་ཐར་པའི་ལམ་ཡང་དེ་ལ་མེད་པར་འགྱུར་རོ། །
TranslationChapter	LDS - Question 1
TranslationPageNumber	204
Wylie	don dam dpyod pas dpyad pa'i tshe yul rang ngos nas grub pa rdul tsam rnyed na'ang de bden grub tu 'gyur mod/[p.14-2-6a] don dam dpyod pa'i ngor rang ngos nas grub pa ni rang rgyud pas kyang khas mi len la len na dbu ma par mi rung zhing thar pa'i lam yang de la med par 'gyur ro/_/
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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

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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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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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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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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