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012-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Great_Hum/1066 ID: 012-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Great_Hum <br> Date: 11 September 2025 <br> Creator: Gwen;Karma Jurmay, Ishwor <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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English	Following the Bodhisattva Grounds, the Ornament of the Sage’s Thought says in the context of explaining this presentation of the bodhisattva vow that, “To say that there is no taking the bodhisattva vow without first taking one of the pratimokṣa vows is not to make the Mahāyāna very troublesome.”378Abhayākaragupta, Ornament of the Sage’s Thought (Munimatālaṃkāra, D. 3903), 82a. Geshé Sharawa says in his Stages of the Path that the Bodhisattva Grounds says that the seven types of pratimokṣa vows are the discipline of restraint, but it does not say that the bodhisattva vow is not taken without first taking one of them. If it were the case that it was not taken, then, since the bodhisattva vow is not taken without the aspirational spirit, a question is asked as to whether the person is a bodhisattva and makes the aspiration for awakening. In the same way, it would also be reasonable that a question is asked as to whether they had the pratimokṣa vow because both would be equally indispensable for the bodhisattva vow.379See Shang Sharawa Yönten Drak, Shang Sharawa’s Stages of the Path, 161–62. See also the Discipline chapter in Asaṅga’s Bodhisattva Grounds for the ritual for bestowing the bodhisattva vow where the question about being a bodhisattva with the aspiration to awakening is asked but not a question about having the pratimokṣa vow. English trans. in Engle, The Bodhisattva’s Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment, 262. Thus it is not determined in Asaṅga’s system that it is the case that one of the seven types of pratimokṣa vows necessarily precedes as the support for a bodhisattva.
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Tibetan	བྱང་སའི་རྗེས་སུ་འབྲང་ནས་བྱང་སྡོམ་གྱི་རྣམ་གཞག་འཆད་པའི་ཐུབ་པ་དགོངས་རྒྱན་ལས་ཀྱང་སོ་ཐར་རིས་བདུན་གང་རུང་སྔོན་དུ་མ་སོང་ན་བྱང་སྡོམ་མི་སྐྱེ་ཟེར་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་ཡོངས་སུ་ངལ་བ་མ་བྱས་པ་ཡིན་པ་སོགས་གསུངས་ལ། དགེ་བཤེས་ཤ་ར་བའི་ལམ་རིམ་དུ་ཡང་། བྱང་ས་ལས་སྡོམ་པའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་སོ་ཐར་རིས་བདུན་ཡིན་པར་གསུངས་ཀྱི་དེ་སྔོན་དུ་མ་སོང་བ་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་མི་སྐྱེ་བར་གསུངས་པ་མེད་དོ། །གལ་ཏེ་མི་སྐྱེ་ན། སྨོན་སེམས་མེད་ན་སྡོམ་པ་མི་སྐྱེ་བས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཡིན་ནམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་སྨོན་ལམ་བཏབ་བམ་ཞེས་གསུངས་པ་བཞིན་དུ། སོ་སོ་ཐར་བ་དང་ལྡན་ནམ་ཞེས་ཀྱང་གསུངས་རིགས་ཏེ་དེ་མེད་ན་མི་སྐྱེ་བར་མཚུངས་པའི་ཕྱིར་ཞེས་སོགས་གསུངས་པས་ན་འཕགས་པ་ཐོགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ལུགས་ལ་བྱང་སྡོམ་གྱི་རྟེན་དུ་རིས་བདུན་ངེས་ཕར་སྔོན་དུ་འགྲོ་དགོས་པས་མ་ཁྱབ་པར་ངེས་སོ། །
TranslationChapter	4
TranslationChapterSubsection	The nature of the discipline of restraint
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Wylie	byang sa'i rjes su 'brang nas byang sdom gyi rnam gzhag 'chad pa'i thub pa dgongs rgyan las kyang so thar ris bdun gang rung sngon du ma song na byang sdom mi skye zer ba theg pa chen po la yongs su ngal ba ma byas pa yin pa sogs gsungs la/_dge bshes sha ra ba'i lam rim du yang /_byang sa las sdom pa'i tshul khrims so thar ris bdun yin par gsungs kyi de sngon du ma song ba la byang chub sems dpa'i sdom pa mi skye bar gsungs pa med do/_/ gal te mi skye na/_smon sems med na sdom pa mi skye bas byang chub sems dpa' yin nam byang chub tu smon lam btab bam zhes gsungs pa bzhin du/_so so thar ba dang ldan nam zhes kyang gsungs rigs te de med na mi skye bar mtshungs pa'i phyir zhes sogs gsungs pas na 'phags pa thogs med kyi lugs la byang sdom gyi rten du ris bdun nges phar sngon du 'gro dgos pas ma khyab par nges so/_/
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AuthorLabel	Kunzang Sönam 1823 - 1905
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SourceAuthor	People/Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams
SourceCitation	Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams. Spyod ʼjug gi ʼgrel bshad rgyal sras yon tan bum bzang. Par gzhi dang po. 1 vol. Gangs can shes rig gi nying bcud. Pe cin: Krung goʼi bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang, 1990.
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SourceShortTitle	Kunzang Sönam, 1990
SourceTitleTibetan	སྤྱོད་འཇུག་གི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཡོན་ཏན་བུམ་བཟང།
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TranslationCitation	Duckworth, Douglas, trans. The Great Hūṃ: A Commentary on Śāntideva's Way of the Bodhisattva. By Minyak Kunzang Sönam. New York, NY: Wisdom Publications, 2025.
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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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Bodhisattvasaṃvara - The ethical code or 'vow' taken by a practitioner on the Great Vehicle path. It is a formal commitment to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings, involving the avoidance of selfish actions and the active practice of helping others. Unlike other Buddhist vows, this commitment is maintained across multiple lifetimes until all beings are liberated. Skt बोधिसत्त्वसंवर  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་  Ch 菩薩戒  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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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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Lam rim - Lam rim refers to the stages on the path and, by extension, more commonly to the genre of teachings which contain practical instructions for training on the stages of the path to enlightenment. Related to the Lojong (བློ་སྦྱོང་ blo sbyong) practice, it is particularly known among the Kadampa and Geluk schools. Tsongkhapa's Byang chub lam rim chen mo is the most well-known in this genre, and the term lam rim is often used specifically to refer to this text. Skt मार्गक्रम  Tib ལམ་རིམ།;ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ།  

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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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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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Gzhi - The foundational basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. It is often used as a synonym for tathāgatagarbha and dharmadhātu. Skt भूमि  Tib གཞི་  

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