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012-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Great_Hum/33 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	The title of this treatise is the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Sanskrit, the main language among four languages that were famous in the noble land of India. To translate this,49 Kunzang Sönam's text reads “into Tibetan” (bod skad du), but this was elided to make sense in English. bodhi means “awakening,” sattva means “courageous-minded,” caryā means “activity,” and avatāra means “engaging.” Its meaning is explained as follows: It is the way to engage the practice of the path constituted by the six perfections, the activity of great beings—those with heroic and courageous minds for training in what is difficult to do. It is the sacred[p.25]The Great Hum 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. means for accomplishing great awakening, the perfect abandonment and realization that is the consummate fruition to be attained.
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Tibetan	རྒྱ་གར་འཕགས་པའི་ཡུལ་ན་ཡོངས་གྲགས་ཀྱི་སྐད་རིགས་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི་ཡོད་པའི་ནང་ནས་གཙོ་བོར་གྱུར་པ་ལེགས་སྦྱར་གྱི་སྐད་དུ། བསྟན་བཅོས་འདིའི་མཚན། བྷོ་དྷི་སཏྭ་ཙརྱ་ཨ་བ་ཏཱ་ར་ཞེས་བྱ་ལ། དེ་བོད་སྐད་དུ་བསྒྱུར་ན་བོ་དྷི་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ། སཏྭཱ་ནི་སེམས་དཔའ། ཙརྱ་ནི་སྤྱོད་པ། ཨ་པ་ཏཱ་ར་ནི་འཇུག་པའོ། །དེའི་དོན་བཤད་པ་ནི། ཐོབ་བྱ་མཐར་ཐུག་གི་འབྲས་བུ་སྤངས་རྟོགས་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆེན་པོ་དེ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཐབས་དམ་པ་བྱ་དཀའ་བ་ལ་སློབ་པ་ལ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཞིང་དང་ལྡན་པའི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པ་ཕ་རོལ་དུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དྲུག་གིས་བསྡུས་པའི་ལམ་སྙིང་སྟོབས་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་ཚུལ་ཞེས་པའོ། །
TranslationChapter	Preliminaries
TranslationChapterSubsection	The actual title
TranslationPageNumber	24
Wylie	rgya gar 'phags pa'i yul na yongs grags kyi skad rigs chen po bzhi yod pa'i nang nas gtso bor gyur pa legs sbyar gyi skad du/_bstan bcos 'di'i mtshan/_b+ho d+hi satwa tsar+ya a ba tA ra zhes bya la/_de bod skad du bsgyur na bo d+hi ni byang chub/_satwA ni sems dpa'/_tsar+ya ni spyod pa/_a pa tA ra ni 'jug pa'o/_/de'i don bshad pa ni/_thob bya mthar thug gi 'bras bu spangs rtogs mthar phyin pa'i byang chub chen po de sgrub pa'i thabs dam pa bya dka' ba la slob pa la sems dpa' zhing dang ldan pa'i skyes bu chen po rnams kyi spyod pa pha rol du phyin pa drug gis bsdus pa'i lam snying stobs nyams su len pa la 'jug pa'i tshul zhes pa'o/_/
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AuthorLabel	Kunzang Sönam 1823 - 1905
DuplicateRootTranslation	false
RootTextWikiPage	Bodhicaryāvatāra
ShortTitle	Duckworth 2025
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.
SourcePublishedYear	1990
SourceShortTitle	Kunzang Sönam, 1990
SourceTitleTibetan	སྤྱོད་འཇུག་གི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཡོན་ཏན་བུམ་བཟང།
SourceTitleWylie	spyod ʼjug gi ʼgrel bshad rgyal sras yon tan bum bzang
SourceVersionLabel	Minyak Kunzang Sönam (1823 - 1905)
SourceWikiPage	Books/Spyod 'jug gi 'grel bshad rgyal sras yon tan bum bzang (Krung go'i bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang 1990)
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.
TranslationPublishedYear	2025
TranslationWikiPage	Books/The Great Hūṃ
Translator	People/Duckworth, D.
TransMemCreator	Gwen;Karma Jurmay, Ishwor
TransMemDate	11 September 2025
TransMemID	012-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Great_Hum
TransMemNum	012
TransMemOrigin	Tsadra Foundation
TransMemType	Commentary

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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Bodhi - Enlightenment or awakening. In Tibetan it is translated as "purified" (byang) and "perfected" (chub), which corresponds to Siddhartha Gautama's achievement of purifying all obscurations and perfecting or attaining all qualities associated with a buddha. Skt बोधि  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་  Ch 菩提;悟;覺  

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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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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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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