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English	Moreover, it follows that the ultimate truth is the object of the mind, because it is the object of assessment (gzhal bya) for the wisdom of the meditative equipoise of the noble ones. As it is said in the autocommentary to the Madhyamakāvatāra, “The ultimate truth is the discovery of the very nature of the object by the exalted wisdom of those who see correctly.”157Chandrakīrti, Autocommentary, p. 145:3. Chandrakīrti is here referring to chap. 6, v. 23, of the root text of Madhyamakāvatāra, which expounds the nature of the two truths. Drakar cites this text because the wisdom of the Āryas is said to find the object. That is, they perceive it. Furthermore, the sutras say that the Bhagavan “sees emptiness completely; he knows it completely.” And again it is said in the Prasannapadā that if it did not exist, it would be futile for the Bodhisattvas to teach158Mipham puts ston pa (to teach), whereas Drakar actually wrote sgom pa (to meditate). The meaning of the point of the statement, however, is not altered. the path of the pāramitās. There is therefore no doubt at all that Mipham’s position is refuted by scripture and reasoning. Mipham says immediately afterward, “From the conventional point of view, the meditative equipoise of the noble ones is the knowing subject and the dharmadhātu is its object. And it is on[p.263]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. this basis that the dharmadhātu can be considered an object of knowledge. It is quite acceptable to speak in such terms. If, however, one says that, on the ultimate level, the dharmadhātu is an object of apprehension, or that it is an object of knowledge, is this not both a direct and indirect contradiction?”159Ketaka Jewel, p. 87. Note that in the citation Drakar abbreviates Mipham’s text.
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Tibetan	གཞན་ཡང་དེ་ཆོས་ཅན། བློའི་ཡུལ་ཡིན་པར་ཐལ། འཕགས་པའི་མཉམ་བཞག་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱིས་གཞལ་བྱ་ཡིན་པའི་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། འཇུག་འགྲེལ་ལས། དེ་ལ་དོན་དམ་པ་ནི་ཡང་དག་པར་གཟིགས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་པར་གྱིས་ཡུལ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་བདག་གི་རང་གི་ངོ་བོ་རྙེད་པ་ཡིན་གྱི་ཞེས་དང་། མདོ་ལས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་རབ་ཏུ་གཟིགས་རབ་ཏུ་མཁྱེན། ཞེས་དང་། ཚིག་གསལ་ལས་ཀྱང་། དེ་མེད་ན་བྱང་སེམས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་ལམ་སྟོན་པ་དོན་མེད་པར་ཐལ་བ་སོགས་ཀྱི་རིགས་པ་སྟེ་ལུང་རིགས་ཀྱི་གནོད་པ་བཟློག་ཏུ་མེད་དོ། །ཡང་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་དེའི་འོག་ཏུ་ཐ་སྙད་དུ་ནི་འཕགས་པའི་མཉམ་བཞག་ཡུལ་ཅན་དང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཡུལ་དུ་[p.14-2-41a]བྱས་པ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ཤེས་བྱ་ཡིན་ཞེས་བརྗོད་རུང་གི་དོན་དམ་པར་དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་གཟུང་བྱའམ་ཤེས་བྱ་ཡིན་སྨྲ་ན་ཚིག་དེ་དངོས་ཤུགས་མི་འགལ་ལམ་ཞེས་ཕྱོགས་སྨྲ་བའི་རིགས་པ་ལ་ཟུར་ཟ་བ་སྐད་དུ་སྣང་ཡང་དེ་ནི་ཕྱོགས་སྨྲ་བ་ལ་ཅི་ཡང་མི་གནོད་པའི་ཁར་རང་གི་ནང་ཆ་སྟོན་པར་ངེས་ཏེ།
TranslationChapter	LDS - Question 6
TranslationPageNumber	262
Wylie	gzhan yang de chos can/_blo'i yul yin par thal/_'phags pa'i mnyam bzhag ye shes kyis gzhal bya yin pa'i phyir te/_'jug 'grel las/_de la don dam pa ni yang dag par gzigs pa rnams kyi ye shes kyi khyad par gyis yul nyid kyi bdag gi rang gi ngo bo rnyed pa yin gyi zhes dang /_mdo las bcom ldan 'das kyis stong pa nyid rab tu gzigs rab tu mkhyen/_zhes dang /_tshig gsal las kyang /_de med na byang sems rnams kyis pha rol tu phyin pa'i lam ston pa don med par thal ba sogs kyi rigs pa ste lung rigs kyi gnod pa bzlog tu med do/_/yang khyod kyis de'i 'og tu tha snyad du ni 'phags pa'i mnyam bzhag yul can dang chos kyi dbyings yul du [p.14-2-41a]byas pa la brten nas shes bya yin zhes brjod rung gi don dam par de bzhin nyid gzung bya'am shes bya yin smra na tshig de dngos shugs mi 'gal lam zhes phyogs smra ba'i rigs pa la zur za ba skad du snang yang de ni phyogs smra ba la ci yang mi gnod pa'i khar rang gi nang cha ston par nges te/
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SourceTitleTibetan	བརྒལ་ལན་ཉིན་བྱེད་སྣང་བ།
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TransMemDate	22 March 2024
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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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Candrakīrti (ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ་). Madhyamakāvatāra [मध्यमकावतार]. dbu ma la 'jug pa [དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [Entering into the Middle Way (84000)]. Translated by Pa tshab lo tsA ba nyi ma grags pa, Tilakakalaśa, Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita, Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba. Tengyur, RKTST 3206 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3206&typ=2.

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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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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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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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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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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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Dharmadhātu - The fundamental expanse from which all phenomena emerge. Skt धर्मधातु  Tib ཆོས་དབྱིངས་  Ch 法界  

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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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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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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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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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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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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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