Translation Memory:011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/931

011-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Pawo/931 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 might ask, “However, since the past and the future do not exist, how could they appear?” The following is stated: Distance in time is just like distance in space, because the wheel of the six kinds [of beings] has neither beginning nor end. Since the amazing Buddhas are the sources of merit and knowledge, they see what is distant in space and by nature. Likewise, why should they not see what is distant in time, such as the past? Since the same reasoning applies in both [cases], they see the wheel of the six kinds [of beings] that is free from a beginning, an end, and something in between. Thus, it is established that beings have no beginning and that the Teacher is omniscient. This explanation does not deal with the following question: “Since the [beginning and end of] cyclic existence are not known, if it is without beginning and end, how is omniscience established?” Rather, [it says that] the wheel of the six kinds [of beings] has neither beginning nor end and is still directly seen. Therefore, [it is said]:
RootTextChapterNum	9
RootTextVerseNum	107
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SourcePageNumber	876
SourceSabcheNumber	3.2.2.4.3.
SourceSegmentOrder	931
Tibetan	འོ་ན་འདས་མ་འོངས་མེད་པས་ཇི་ལྟར་སྣང་ཞེ་ན། ཇི་ལྟར་ཐག་རིང་བ་ཡང་དེ་ལྟར་སྟེ། སངས་རྒྱས་ངོ་མཚར་བསོད་ནམས་ཤེས་རབ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་ཕྱོགས་དང་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་རིང་བ་གཟིགས་ལྟར་དུས་རིང་འདས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ཅི་སྟེ་མི་གཟིགས་སོ། །དེ་གཉིས་རིགས་པ་མཚུངས་པས་རིགས་དྲུག་འཁོར་ལོ་ཐོག་ཐ་བར་མ་དང་བྲལ་བ། །གཟིགས་ཏེ་དེ་ལྟར་འགྲོ་བ་ཐོག་མེད་དང་ནི་སྟོན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པ་གྲུབ། །ཅེས་སོ། །དེས་གང་བཤད་པ། འཁོར་བ་ཐོག་ཐ་མེད་པ་ཡིན་ན་དེའི་ཚེ་དེ་ནི་མི་ཤེས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པར་ཇི་ལྟར་འགྲུབ་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་ནི་མེད་སྟེ་རིགས་དྲུག་གི་འཁོར་ལོ་ལ་ཐོག་མ་དང་ཐ་མ་མེད་སྟེ་འོན་ཡང་མངོན་སུམ་གྱིས་གཟིགས་སོ། །
TranslationChapter	9
TranslationChapterSubsection	Dispelling the Consequence of Infinite Regress
TranslationPageNumber	738
Wylie	o na 'das ma 'ongs med pas ji ltar snang zhe na/_ji ltar thag ring ba yang de ltar ste/_sangs rgyas ngo mtshar bsod nams shes rab 'byung gnas yin phyir phyogs dang rang bzhin gyis ring ba gzigs ltar dus ring 'das la sogs pa ci ste mi gzigs so/_/de gnyis rigs pa mtshungs pas rigs drug 'khor lo thog tha bar ma dang bral ba/_/gzigs te de ltar 'gro ba thog med dang ni ston pa thams cad mkhyen pa grub/_/ces so/_/des gang bshad pa/_'khor ba thog tha med pa yin na de'i tshe de ni mi shes pas thams cad mkhyen par ji ltar 'grub ces bya ba ni med ste rigs drug gi 'khor lo la thog ma dang tha ma med ste 'on yang mngon sum gyis gzigs so/_/
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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)
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

Puṇya - The positive energy or potential created through performing good deeds, such as generosity or kindness. In Buddhism, accumulating this positive force is seen as essential for finding happiness in future lives, and crucial as a foundation for following the spiritual path. Skt पुण्य  Tib བསོད་ནམས་  Ch 福;功德  

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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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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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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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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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