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012-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Great_Hum/986 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	If you want to uphold the bodhisattva vow, you should know the benefits of guarding it, the problems with not guarding it, and the bodhisattva practices that are difficult to perform. When engaging with a virtuous spiritual friend’s progressive guidance of the mind, and there comes to be a little bit of experience with the spirit of awakening, perform the sevenfold[p.184]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. worship, including prostrations and offerings, and supplicate the spiritual guide. During the main part, repeat after the words of the master or express them yourself. It is said that you should state your name after first supplicating, then either take it from reciting all the words of the ritual in the Array of Mañjuśrī’s Buddhafield or by reciting the above two stanzas (3.23–24) three times.358See Śāntideva, Anthology of Training, 10b; English trans. in Goodman, The Training Anthology of Śāntideva, 16. For the extensive and easy ways to take up the practice, it is expressed as above and all over this text, in the preparation, the main part, and conclusion. Here it is said that it is fine to recite the words of the ritual yourself; this is different from what is said in the Bodhisattva Grounds.359See pages 201–3." with "Furthermore, stinginess is a type of attachment. Both arhats who are śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas have also completely relinquished this along with its potentials. Therefore merely to eliminate all stinginess regarding things like your body and possessions is not the perfection of generosity. In order to become that, not only must the complete clinging of stinginess, which is an obstacle to generosity, be eliminated, but you must train the mind again and again to generate a giving attitude toward others, letting go of all things—like the body and possessions—from the depths of your heart. Moreover, from the start you can train the mind in aspiring from the depths of your heart to give to sentient beings through mentally imagining immeasurable things to give. This is stated in the Bodhisattva Grounds as a method with little difficulty for developing boundless merit; it is said to be the generosity of intelligent bodhisattvas.329See Asaṅga, Bodhisattva Grounds, 71a; English trans. in Engle, The Bodhisattva’s Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment, 227. For Kunzang Sönam’s tshogs chung, read tshegs chung.
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Tibetan	བྱང་སྡོམ་གཟུང་བར་འདོད་པ་ན། དེ་བསྲུངས་པའི་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་མ་བསྲུངས་པའི་ཉེས་དམིགས་དང་བྱང་སེམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པ་སྤྱད་དཀའ་བ་རྣམས་ཤེས་པར་བྱས་ནས། སྦྱོར་བའི་དུས་དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་གྱིས་བློ་རིམ་བཞིན་དུ་ཁྲིད་དེ་བྱུང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ལ་མྱོང་བ་ཅུང་ཟད་སྐྱེས་པ་དེས་ཕྱག་མཆོད་སོགས་ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ་དང་བཤེས་གཉེན་ལ་གསོལ་གདབ་རྣམས་བྱ་ལ། དངོས་གཞིའི་དུས་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་ཚིག་གི་རྗེས་སུ་ཟློས་པའམ་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བརྗོད་པས་དགོངས་གསོལ་སྔོན་དུ་བཏང་ནས་བདག་གི་མིང་སྨོས་ཏེ། འཇམ་དཔལ་ཞིང་བཀོད་ཀྱི་མདོ་ལས་འབྱུང་བའི་ཆོ་གའི་ཚིག་ཚང་བའམ་མགོའི་ཚིགས་བཅད་གཉིས་ལན་གསུམ་བརྗོད་ནས་ལེན་དགོས་པར་གསུངས་ལ། དེ་རྣམས་ལག་ཏུ་ལེན་ཚུལ་བདེ་ལ་རྒྱས་པ་ནི་གཞུང་འདིའི་སྦྱོར་དངོས་རྗེས་གསུམ་ཐམས་ཅད་གོང་དུ་བཤད་པ་ལྟར་བྱའོ། །འདིར་ཆོ་གའི་ཚིག་རང་གིས་བརྗོད་པས་ཆོག་པར་བཤད་པ་ནི་བྱང་ས་དང་མི་འདྲ་བར་གསུང་ངོ༌། །
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Wylie	byang sdom gzung bar 'dod pa na/_de bsrungs pa'i phan yon dang ma bsrungs pa'i nyes dmigs dang byang sems kyi spyod pa spyad dka' ba rnams shes par byas nas/_sbyor ba'i dus dge ba'i bshes gnyen gyis blo rim bzhin du khrid de byung chub kyi sems la myong ba cung zad skyes pa des phyag mchod sogs yan lag bdun pa dang bshes gnyen la gsol gdab rnams bya la/_dngos gzhi'i dus slob dpon gyi tshig gi rjes su zlos pa'am bdag nyid kyis brjod pas dgongs gsol sngon du btang nas bdag gi ming smos te/_'jam dpal zhing bkod kyi mdo las 'byung ba'i cho ga'i tshig tshang ba'am mgo'i tshigs bcad gnyis lan gsum brjod nas len dgos par gsungs la/_de rnams lag tu len tshul bde la rgyas pa ni gzhung 'di'i sbyor dngos rjes gsum thams cad gong du bshad pa ltar bya'o/_/'dir cho ga'i tshig rang gis brjod pas chog par bshad pa ni byang sa dang mi 'dra bar gsung ngo*/_/
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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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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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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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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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Arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt अर्हत्  Tib དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ།  Ch 阿羅漢  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Pratyekabuddha - Pratyekabuddhas are saints who, in their last birth in the cycle of existence, are said to become enlightened through solitary practice on the nature of dependent ordination. These saints are said to appear when there is no buddha around and work either alone or in small groups. Skt प्रत्येकबुद्ध  Tib རང་སངས་རྒྱས།;རང་རྒྱལ།  Ch 緣覺  

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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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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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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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Yan lag bdun - The seven branches, or sections, of devotional religious services, or prayers, recited consecutively in order to accumulate merit. The typical set of seven are prostrations, offering, confession, rejoicing in virtue, requesting to turn the wheel of Dharma, requesting to not pass into nirvāṇa, and the dedication of merit, presented in that order. Skt सप्ताङ्ग  Tib ཡན་ལག་བདུན་  

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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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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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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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