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011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/173 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	You Proponents of Cognizance might say, “Through its association with other conditions, such as meditative concentration, self-illuminating self-awareness is existent, since it [then] sees its own knowledge of the minds of others and recollections of previous situations of oneself and others.” Though one may know the minds of others and such, through this one does not see [one’s] own mind. The reason is that [this is similar to the following example:] just through seeing forms, the eye does not see the eye itself. It is like this: Through applying such[p.638]The Center of the Sunlit Sky 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. things as a concoction of the eye lotion of accomplishment—administering warmth, smoke, and blazing light to the eyes—you see and obtain the excellent [treasure] vase, jewels, and such that exist far away below the earth and so forth. However, you do not see the eye lotion itself that was administered to the eye or the eye itself.1504This seems to have been a rather commonly used technique in ancient India to heighten one’s visual capacity. Here, Minyak Künzang Sönam points out that the example of the eye lotion not only does not prove self-awareness but it actually invalidates the existence of self-awareness: Since the eye lotion is an example of something that is very close but not seen, it exactly illustrates that one’s own mind does not see itself, and not the opposite (Pelden and Sönam 1993, p. 159).
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Tibetan	དེ་ལ་རྣམ་རིག་པ་ན་རེ། ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་ལ་སོགས་པའི་རྐྱེན་གཞན་དག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ན་གཞན་གྱི་སེམས་ཤེས་པ་དང་རང་གཞན་གྱི་སྔོན་གནས་རྗེས་སུ་དྲན་པ་མཐོང་བའི་ཕྱིར་རང་རིག་རང་གསལ་བ་ཡོད་དོ་ཞེ་ན། གཞན་སེམས་སོགས་ཤེས་ཀྱང་དེས་སེམས་རང་ཉིད་མཐོང་བ་མ་ཡིན་ཏེ། མིག་གིས་གཟུགས་མཐོང་གིས་མིག་ཉིད་མི་མཐོང་བའི་ཕྱིར་དང་། གྲུབ་པའི་མིག་སྨན་གི་ཝང་ལ་སོགས་པ་སྦྱར་བ་གྲུབ་སྟེ་དྲོ་བ་དང་དུབ་དང་འབར་བར་སྣང་བ་དག་མིག་ལ་བྱུགས་པས་ས་འོག་སོགས་ཐག་རིང་ན་ཡོད་པའི་བུམ་པ་བཟང་པོ་དང་ནོར་བུ་སོགས་མཐོང་ནས་ལེན་པར་བྱེད་ཀྱང་མིག་ལ་བྱུགས་པའི་མིག་སྨན་དེ་ཉིད་དམ་མིག་ཉིད་མཐོང་བ་མིན་པ་བཞིན་ནོ། །
TranslationChapter	9
TranslationChapterSubsection	Removing the Consequence That an Illusion Would Not Exist Even on the Seeming Level
TranslationPageNumber	637
Wylie	de la rnam rig pa na re/_ting nge 'dzin la sogs pa'i rkyen gzhan dag dang ldan pa na gzhan gyi sems shes pa dang rang gzhan gyi sngon gnas rjes su dran pa mthong ba'i phyir rang rig rang gsal ba yod do zhe na/_gzhan sems sogs shes kyang des sems rang nyid mthong ba ma yin te/_mig gis gzugs mthong gis mig nyid mi mthong ba'i phyir dang /_grub pa'i mig sman gi wang la sogs pa sbyar ba grub ste dro ba dang dub dang 'bar bar snang ba dag mig la byugs pas sa 'og sogs thag ring na yod pa'i bum pa bzang po dang nor bu sogs mthong nas len par byed kyang mig la byugs pa'i mig sman de nyid dam mig nyid mthong ba min pa bzhin no/_/
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AuthorLabel	Pawo Rinpoche 1504 - 1566
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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)
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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

Dhyāna - A state of deep, one-pointed concentration where the mind is stable, calm, and focused on a single object, serving as a foundation for developing wisdom. Skt ध्यान  Tib བསམ་གཏན་  Ch 禪;禪那;靜慮  

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Saṃprajanyam - Vigilance or alertness is the mental function that monitors one's thoughts, speech, and physical actions to ensure they stay on the right path and avoid harmful distractions. Skt संप्रजन्य  Tib ཤེས་བཞིན་  Ch 正知  

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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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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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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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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