Translation Memory:011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/258
011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/258 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 | The Small Commentary on the Difficult Points1530Tib. dka’ ’grel chung ngu. In the Tengyur, there are five pañjikās (Tib. dka’ ’grel) on the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Prajñākaramati’s Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā (P5273, 281 fols.) an anonymous Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravivṛttipañjikā (P5274, 72 fols.) Vairocanarakṣita’s Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapañjikā (P5277, 75 fols.) an anonymous Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraprajñāparicchedapañjikā (P5278, 25 fols.) Vibhūticandra’s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāratātparyapañjikāviśeṣadyotanī (P5282, 115 fols.). Pawo Rinpoche’s text calls P5273 The Great Commentary; P5282 is always referred to as “Vibhūti”; and P5278 is explicitly called The Small Commentary on the Knowledge Chapter Only. Moreover, all the quotes from these texts can be clearly located. This leaves P5274 and P5277 as the possible sources for quotes from what Pawo Rinpoche calls The Small Commentary on the Difficult Points. The first short quote from this text (p. 127 in Pawo Rinpoche’s commentary) accords pretty much with a corresponding passage in P5274. However, none of the other quotes can be found in either of these two commentaries, nor in any of the remaining ones in the Tengyur. Unanimously, all further available sources, such as Butön’s History of Buddhism (Lokesh Chandra ed., vol 24, p. 949) and his commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, as well as all Western authors list only the ten commentaries as found in the Bibliography. None of the Tibetan or Western scholars whom I consulted could resolve this issue either. There is some possibility that Pawo Rinpoche still had access to one of the numerous lost Indian commentaries. (It seems to be ruled out that he was just quoting from a very different edition or translation of P5274 and P5277, since most of the passages quoted in his text are much longer than and quite different in content from what these two commentaries say on the corresponding verses.) There is also an anonymous, fragmentary commentary in Sanskrit that was found in the Durbar Library in Kathmandu, Nepal, by Cecil Bendall. L. de La Vallée Poussin used this as yet unpublished and unanalyzed manuscript for his edition of Prajñākaramati’s Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā, referring to it as Bodhicaryāvatāraṭippānī. In any case, style and context of the passages from the Small Commentary in question suggest a translated Indian commentary, thus ruling out the possibility that Pawo Rinpoche refers to the now lost commentary by Ngog Lotsāwa (A khu shes rab rgya mtsho’s list, no. 11077). comments: |
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| RootTextChapterNum | 9 |
| RootTextVerseNum | 2 |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SourcePageNumber | 671 |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 2.1.4.2.8. |
| SourceSegmentOrder | 258 |
| Tibetan | དཀའ་འགྲེལ་ཆུང་ངུ་ལས་ནི། |
| TranslationChapter | 9 |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | Removing the Consequence That There Would Be No Support [for Talking about Cyclic Existence] |
| TranslationPageNumber | 648 |
| Wylie | dka' 'grel chung ngu las ni/ |
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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 |
