020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/10 ID: 020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1 <br> Date: February 2026 <br> Creator: Dawa, Ishwor, Karma Jurmay <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation
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| English | “Mañjuśrī! What is the starting point of the bodhisattvas' practice? What is its sphere?” Mañjuśrī said, “Great compassion is the starting point of the bodhisattvas’ practice, O Devaputra. Its sphere is living beings.” |
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| QuoteSource | Gayāśīrṣasūtra (RKTSK 109) |
| Sanskrit | किमारम्भः, मञ्जुश्रीः, बोधिसत्त्वानां चर्या। किमधिष्ठान। मञ्जुश्रीर् आह। महाकरुणारम्भः, देवपुत्र, बोधिसत्त्वानां चर्या सत्त्वाधिष्ठानेति विस्तरः। |
| SegmentFormat | Quote |
| SegmentOrder | 10 |
| SktTransliteration | kimārambhaḥ, mañjuśrīḥ, bodhisattvānāṃ caryā, kimadhiṣṭhāna, mañjuśrīr āha, mahākaruṇārambhaḥ, devaputra, bodhisattvānāṃ caryā sattvādhiṣṭhāneti vistaraḥ, |
| SourcePageNumber | 22b |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 1 |
| Tibetan | འཇམ་དཔལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པའི་རྩོམ་པ་ནི་ཅི། གནས་ནི་གང་། འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱིས་སྨྲས་པ། ལྷའི་བུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པའི་རྩོམ་པ་ནི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོའོ། །གནས་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ནོ་ |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | Great compassion is of primary importance to the bodhisattva; universality of pain; necessity of compassion |
| Wylie | jam dpal byang chub sems dpa' rnams kyi spyod pa'i rtsom pa ni ci/_gnas ni gang /_'jam dpal gyis smras pa/_lha'i bu byang chub sems dpa' rnams kyi spyod pa'i rtsom pa ni snying rje chen po'o/_/gnas ni sems can no |
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| Parameter | Value |
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| DuplicateRootTranslation | false |
| SourceAuthor | People/Kamalaśīla |
| SourceCitation | Kamalaśīla (པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་). bhāvanākrama [भावनाक्रम]. bsgom pa'i rim pa [བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ]. [Stages of Meditation 1 of 3]. Tengyur, RKTST 4228 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=4228&typ=2. |
| SourceShortTitle | Bhāvanākrama 1 |
| SourceTitleTibetan | བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ། |
| SourceTitleWylie | bsgom pa'i rim pa |
| SourceWikiPage | Texts/Bhāvanākrama of Kamalaśīla (1 of 3) |
| TranslationCitation | Adam, Martin T. "Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākramas." PhD diss., McGill University, 2002. |
| TranslationPublishedYear | 2002 |
| TranslationWikiPage | Dissertations/Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākramas |
| Translator | People/Adam, M. |
| TransMemCreator | Dawa, Ishwor, Karma Jurmay |
| TransMemDate | February 2026 |
| TransMemID | 020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1 |
| TransMemNum | 020 |
| TransMemOrigin | Tsadra Foundation |
| TransMemType | Root verses |
