020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/14 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

And that (compassion) can be expanded by increasing one's focus upon the meditation object of afflicted sentient beings. Which is to say that it should be developed towards every single sentient being, since every being in the three world realms is perpetually afflicted by the three kinds of suffering—each according to their circumstances.

Sanskrit

सा च दुःखितसत्त्वालम्बनमनस्कारबहुलकारतो वृद्धिम् उपैति। सर्वे च ते सत्त्वास् त्रैधातुकावचरास् त्रिविधदुःखतया यथायोगम् अत्यन्तदुःखिता एवेति सर्वेष्व् एव सत्त्वेषु भावनीया।

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14

SktTransliteration

sā ca duḥkhitasattvālambanamanaskārabahulakārato vṛddhim upaiti, sarve ca te sattvās traidhātukāvacarās trividhaduḥkhatayā yathāyogam atyantaduḥkhitā eveti sarveṣv eva sattveṣu bhāvanīyā,

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1

Tibetan

དེ་ཡང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བའི་སེམས་ཅན་ལ་དམིགས་ཤིང་ཡིད་ལ་བྱ་བ་མང་དུ་བྱས་པས་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར་ཏེ། སེམས་ཅན་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་ན་སྤྱོད་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྣམ་པ་གསུམ་གྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་མཐུན་པ་བཞིན་དུ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལོ་ཞེས་དེ་ལྟར་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་བསྒོམ་མོ། །

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Great compassion is of primary importance to the bodhisattva; universality of pain; necessity of compassion

Wylie

de yang sdug bsngal ba'i sems can la dmigs shing yid la bya ba mang du byas pas skye bar 'gyur te/_sems can 'jig rten gsum na spyod pa thams cad sdug bsngal rnam pa gsum gyis ji ltar mthun pa bzhin du sdug bsngal lo zhes de ltar sems can thams cad la bsgom mo/_/

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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