Translation Memory:011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/1245
011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/1245 ID: 011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo <br> Date: 1 April 2025 <br> Creator: Gwen, Karma Jurmay, Dawa, Migmar;Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation
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| English | These one and a half verses teach that there are no existents or nonexistents whatsoever that need causes.1794It seems that Pawo Rinpoche deemed verses 145–146ab to be selfexplanatory, since he gives no further comment. The corresponding part of Künzang Pelden’s commentary says: “If the result is analyzed, is what is to be produced an existent or a nonexistent? What use is a cause for a result that is an entity, i.e., something that exists already by its nature? These two are not suitable as cause and result for each other. You might say, ‘The result is something nonexistent that is produced by the cause.’ What use is a cause, if the result’s own entity is a mere nonexistent? [There is no need for a cause], since, in general, a nonexistent does not have a cause and such a [nonexistent] remains within its nature of being a nonexistent. You might think, ‘A mere nonexistent is not something that is produced by a cause. However, it is the cause that makes this nonexistent result into an existing entity.’ No [cause] is capable [of this]: Even the combined efforts of billions of causes cannot alter the lack of an entity (i.e., [the lack of] a phenomenon)—or the nonexistence of a nature of its own—into an entity. This is just as the horns of a rabbit cannot be transformed into an existent, no matter how many causes are combined. A nonexistent will never turn into something that has to depend on something [else]. Another reason the lack of an entity cannot be transformed into an entity is: It is not justified either that [this lack of an entity] turns into [an entity] without discarding its nature (i.e., being the lack of an entity) or that it turns into [an entity] by discarding [this nature].” (Kun bzang dpal ldan 1990, pp. 724–25) |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 9 |
| RootTextVerseNum | 145;146 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SourcePageNumber | 906 |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 4.2.2.2.1. |
| SourceSegmentOrder | 1245 |
| Tibetan | དེ་ནས་ཚིགས་བཅད་ཕྱེད་དང་གཉིས་ཀྱིས་ཡོད་མེད་གང་ཡིན་ཡང་རྒྱུ་མི་དགོས་པར་བསྟན། |
| TranslationChapter | 9 |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | The Nature of the Reason |
| TranslationPageNumber | 774 |
| Wylie | de nas tshigs bcad phyed dang gnyis kyis yod med gang yin yang rgyu mi dgos par bstan/ |
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| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| AuthorLabel | Pawo Rinpoche 1504 - 1566 |
| DuplicateRootTranslation | false |
| RootSourceTransMem | 001-Tsadra-BCA-Root-Padmakara |
| RootTextWikiPage | Bodhicaryāvatāra |
| ShortTitle | Brunnhölzl 2004 |
| SourceAuthor | People/Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd |
| SourceCitation | Dpa' bo gtsug lag phreng ba. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i rnam bshad theg chen chos kyi rgya mtsho zab rgyas mtha' yas pa'i snying po. The Essence of the Immeasurable, Profound and Vast Ocean of the Dharma of the Great Vehicle. Rouffignac, France: Nehsang Samten Chöling, n.d. See Sarnath: vajra vidya institute, 2003. |
| SourceShortTitle | The Essence of the Immeasurable, Profound and Vast Ocean of the Dharma of the Great Vehicle |
| SourceTitleTibetan | བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཐེག་ཆེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཟབ་རྒྱས་མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ། |
| SourceTitleWylie | byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i rnam par bshad pa theg chen chos kyi rgya mtsho zab rgyas mtha' yas pa'i snying po |
| SourceVersionLabel | Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd (1504 - 1566) |
| SourceWikiPage | Texts/Spyod 'jug rnam bshad theg chen chos kyi rgya mtsho |
| TranslationCitation | Brunnhölzl, Karl. The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Including a translation of Pawo Rinpoche's commentary on the knowledge section of Śāntideva's The Entrance to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004. |
| TranslationPublishedYear | 2004 |
| TranslationWikiPage | Books/The Center of the Sunlit Sky |
| Translator | People/Brunnhölzl, K. |
| TransMemCreator | Gwen, Karma Jurmay, Dawa, Migmar;Jeremi |
| TransMemDate | 1 April 2025 |
| TransMemID | 011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo |
| TransMemNum | 011 |
| TransMemOrigin | Tsadra Foundation |
| TransMemType | Commentary |
