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013-Tsadra-BCA-Com-Minyak-Ch9/542 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	Furthermore, arguments refuting self-awareness found in texts like the seventh chapter of the Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way, Dispelling Disputes, and the Finely Woven are similar to the ones stated in our text here.200See Nāgārjuna, Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way, VII.8–12; Nāgārjuna, Dispelling Disputes, vv. 34–39; and Nāgārjuna, Finely Woven (Vaidalyasūtra, D. 3826), 23a. The Essence of Madhyamaka (Madhyamakahṛdaya) and the autocommentary on Distinguishing the Two Truths also demonstrate ways of refuting selfawareness. 201See Bhāviveka, Essence of Madhyamaka (Madhyamakahṛdaya, D. 8355), 23b; Jñānagarbha, Autocommentary on “Distinguishing the Two Truths” under v. 6 (D. 3882), 4b. The Introduction to the Middle Way shows four ways of refuting it, with arguments that (1) it is begging the question, what is to be established is not different from the means of establishing it; (2) even with an existent self-awareness, it is impossible to remember what is intrinsically other; (3) action, agent, and patient would be one; and (4) memory occurs even without self-awareness. All these have been cited above.
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Tibetan	གཞན་ཡང་། རྩ་ཤེས་རབ་བྱེད་བདུན་པ། རྩོད་བཟློག ཞིབ་མོ་རྣམ་འཐག་སོགས་ལས་ཀྱང་རང་རིག་འགོག་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རིགས་པ་གཞུང་འདིར་བསྟན་པ་རྣམས་དང་ཕྱོགས་འདྲ་བར་བཤད་ཅིང་། དབུ་མ་སྙིང་པོ་དང་བདེན་གཉིས་རང་འགྲེལ་སོགས་ལས་ཀྱང་རང་རིག་འགོག་ཚུལ་བསྟན་ལ། འཇུག་པ་ལས་ནི། སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་བསྒྲུབ་བྱ་དང་མཚུངས་པའི་རིགས་པ། རང་རིག་ཡོད་ཀྱང་རང་མཚན་གྱིས་གཞན་དྲན་པ་མི་སྲིད་པའི་རིགས་པ། བྱ་བྱེད་ལས་གསུམ་གཅིག་ཏུ་ཐལ་བའི་རིགས་པ། རང་རིག་མེད་ཀྱང་དྲན་པ་སྐྱེ་བའི་རིགས་པ་དང་བཞིས་འགོག་ཚུལ་བསྟན་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སྔར་དྲངས་ཟིན་པ་ལྟར་རོ། །
TranslationChapter	9
TranslationChapterSubsection	Actual Explanation
TranslationPageNumber	116
Wylie	gzhan yang /_rtsa shes rab byed bdun pa/_rtsod bzlog_zhib mo rnam 'thag sogs las kyang rang rig 'gog byed kyi rigs pa gzhung 'dir bstan pa rnams dang phyogs 'dra bar bshad cing /_dbu ma snying po dang bden gnyis rang 'grel sogs las kyang rang rig 'gog tshul bstan la/_'jug pa las ni/_sgrub byed bsgrub bya dang mtshungs pa'i rigs pa/_rang rig yod kyang rang mtshan gyis gzhan dran pa mi srid pa'i rigs pa/_bya byed las gsum gcig tu thal ba'i rigs pa/_rang rig med kyang dran pa skye ba'i rigs pa dang bzhis 'gog tshul bstan pa thams cad sngar drangs zin pa ltar ro/ /
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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།
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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.
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TransMemDate	10 September 2025
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Svasaṃvedana - An important term for the Yogācāra that refers to a consciousness of consciousness itself, or how one knows that they know something. It was a hotly debated topic that was disputed by followers of the Madhyamaka. In Tibet it would later become a common Dzogchen term, though with the entirely different meaning of one's own innate awareness (rig pa), a crucial concept in the Dzogchen teachings. Skt स्वसंवेदन  Tib རང་རིག་  Ch 自證分  

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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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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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Smṛtiḥ - Mindfulness is the ability to keep a chosen object or the present moment in mind without forgetting it. It acts as a stable foundation for meditation and daily awareness. Skt स्मृति  Tib དྲན་པ་  Ch 念  

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Svasaṃvedana - An important term for the Yogācāra that refers to a consciousness of consciousness itself, or how one knows that they know something. It was a hotly debated topic that was disputed by followers of the Madhyamaka. In Tibet it would later become a common Dzogchen term, though with the entirely different meaning of one's own innate awareness (rig pa), a crucial concept in the Dzogchen teachings. Skt स्वसंवेदन  Tib རང་རིག་  Ch 自證分  

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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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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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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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