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013-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Minyak-Ch9/226 ID: 013-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Minyak-Ch9 <br> Date: 10 September 2025 <br> Creator: Gwen, Migmar, Dawa, Jeremi <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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English	Here is what this passage means: The first stanza shows how, like a grammarian first teaches letters before having a student read, the Buddha does not initially teach the profound that is difficult to realize, but teaches the doctrine in accordance with what a disciple’s mind can bear. The way this is done is demonstrated in what follows. The next three lines show how abandoning evil actions and accomplishing virtues bring about the higher states. Then one line shows the absence of the self of persons and the presence of the duality of apprehender and apprehended for the two types of realists Vaibhāṣika and [p.60]The Profound Reality of Interdependence Duckworth, Douglas S., trans. The Profound Reality of Interdependence: An Overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva. By Künzang Sönam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Sautrāntrika. Then a line for those of the Mind-Only, Mahāyāna type shows there to be an emptiness of apprehender-apprehended duality that negates external objects. Then the last three lines show the way of accomplishing awakening for those Mahāyāna types with supreme faculties—the path of profound Madhyamaka, emptiness with a heart of compassion—which frightens those with the anxiety of conceiving true existence.
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Tibetan	ཞེས་གསུངས། ལུང་དེའི་དོན་ནི། ཚིགས་བཅད་དང་པོས་བརྡ་སྤྲོད་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་དང་པོར་ཡི་གེའི་ཕྱི་མོ་ཀློག་ཏུ་འཇིག་པ་ལྟར། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་ཐོག་མ་ནས་ཟབ་མོ་རྟོགས་དཀའ་བ་མི་སྟོན་པར་བློས་ཇི་ཙམ་བཟོད་པའི་ཆོས་སྟོན་པ་དང་། དེའི་ཚུལ་ཡང་། དེ་ནས་རྐང་པ་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྡིག་སྤོང་དགེ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱིས་མངོན་མཐོ་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་སྟོན་པ་དང་། དེ་ནས་རྐང་པ་གཅིག་གིས་དོན་སྨྲ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཅན་ལ་གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་ནི་མེད་ཀྱི་གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་ཡོད་པ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་སྟོན་པ་དང་། དེ་ནས་རྐང་པ་གཅིག་གིས་ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་རིགས་ཅན་སེམས་ཙམ་པ་ལ་ཕྱི་དོན་བཀག་པའི་གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་སྟོང་ཡོད་པར་སྟོན་པ་དང་། དེ་ནས་རྐང་པ་གསུམ་གྱིས་ཟབ་མོ་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་བདེན་ཞེན་གྱི་ཁུ་འཕྲིག་ཅན་རྣམས་ལ་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱེད་བྱེད་ཀྱི་སྟོང་ཉིད་སྙིང་རྗེའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན་ནི་ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་རིགས་ཅན་དབང་རབ་བྱུང་ཆུབ་སྒྲུབ་པ་ཁ་ཅིག་ལ་སྟོན་པའི་དོན་ཏོ། །
TranslationChapter	9
TranslationChapterSubsection	General Brief Demonstration of the Sequence of Four Philosophical Systems
TranslationPageNumber	59
Wylie	zhes gsungs/_lung de'i don ni/_tshigs bcad dang pos brda sprod pa rnams kyis dang por yi ge'i phyi mo klog tu 'jig pa ltar/_sangs rgyas kyis kyang thog ma nas zab mo rtogs dka' ba mi ston par blos ji tsam bzod pa'i chos ston pa dang /_de'i tshul yang /_de nas rkang pa gsum gyis sdig spong dge sgrub kyis mngon mtho sgrub byed ston pa dang /_de nas rkang pa gcig gis don smra gnyis kyi rigs can la gang zag gi bdag ni med kyi gzung 'dzin gnyis yod pa las brtsams te ston pa dang /_de nas rkang pa gcig gis theg chen gyi rigs can sems tsam pa la phyi don bkag pa'i gzung 'dzin gnyis stong yod par ston pa dang /_de nas rkang pa gsum gyis zab mo dbu ma'i lam bden zhen gyi khu 'phrig can rnams la 'jigs pa skyed byed kyi stong nyid snying rje'i snying po can ni theg chen gyi rigs can dbang rab byung chub sgrub pa kha cig la ston pa'i don to/ /
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RootTextWikiPage	Bodhicaryāvatāra
ShortTitle	Duckworth 2019
SourceAuthor	People/Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams
SourceCitation	Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams, (Thub bstan chos kyi grags pa). Spyod 'jug shes rab le'u'i spyi don rim par phye ba zab mo rten 'byung gi de kho na nyid yang gsal sgron me.
SourceTitleTibetan	སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་སྤྱི་དོན་རིམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཟབ་མོ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་གི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཡང་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མེ།
SourceTitleWylie	spyod 'jug shes rab le'u'i spyi don rim par phye ba zab mo rten 'byung gi de kho na nyid yang gsal sgron me
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TranslationCitation	Duckworth, Douglas S., trans. The Profound Reality of Interdependence: An Overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva. By Künzang Sönam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
TranslationPublishedYear	2019
TranslationWikiPage	Books/The Profound Reality of Interdependence
Translator	People/Duckworth, D.
TransMemCreator	Gwen, Migmar, Dawa, Jeremi
TransMemDate	10 September 2025
TransMemID	013-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Minyak-Ch9
TransMemNum	013
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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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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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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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Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt चित्तमात्र  Tib སེམས་ཙམ་  

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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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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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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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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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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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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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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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Cittamātra - Though it is sometimes used synonymously with Yogācāra, it is in fact one of the more prominent philosophical theories associated with this school. It asserts that the objects in the external world with which we interact are actually mentally created representations appearing as those objects. The character of these perceptions is predetermined by our own karmic conditioning that is stored in the ālayavijñāna. Skt चित्तमात्र  Tib སེམས་ཙམ་  

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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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Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams (མི་ཉག་ཀུན་བཟང་བསོད་ནམས་). spyod 'jug shes rab le'u'i spyi don rim par phye ba zab mo rten 'byung gi de kho na nyid yang gsal sgron me [སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་སྤྱི་དོན་རིམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཟབ་མོ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་གི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཡང་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མེ།]. [Lamp that Thoroughly Illuminates the Suchness of Profound Dependent Origination: An Overview of the Divisions of the Wisdom Chapter of Entering into the Conduct [of the Bodhisattva]]. Tengyur.

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Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams (མི་ཉག་ཀུན་བཟང་བསོད་ནམས་). spyod 'jug shes rab le'u'i spyi don rim par phye ba zab mo rten 'byung gi de kho na nyid yang gsal sgron me [སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་སྤྱི་དོན་རིམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཟབ་མོ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་གི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཡང་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མེ།]. [Lamp that Thoroughly Illuminates the Suchness of Profound Dependent Origination: An Overview of the Divisions of the Wisdom Chapter of Entering into the Conduct [of the Bodhisattva]]. Tengyur.

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Mi nyag kun bzang bsod nams (མི་ཉག་ཀུན་བཟང་བསོད་ནམས་). spyod 'jug shes rab le'u'i spyi don rim par phye ba zab mo rten 'byung gi de kho na nyid yang gsal sgron me [སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུའི་སྤྱི་དོན་རིམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཟབ་མོ་རྟེན་འབྱུང་གི་དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་ཡང་གསལ་སྒྲོན་མེ།]. [Lamp that Thoroughly Illuminates the Suchness of Profound Dependent Origination: An Overview of the Divisions of the Wisdom Chapter of Entering into the Conduct [of the Bodhisattva]]. Tengyur.

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