020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/231 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 at this level, the bodhisattva's perfection of generosity becomes exceedingly powerful because he acts for the sake of others just as his own on the basis of knowledge [that realizes the Dharma-element]. But even for a bodhisattva who realizes the truth, so long as he is unable to maintain a clear comprehension of subtle moral transgressions, (he will remain at) the first level. But when he can, then from the fulfillment this limb the second level is established. |
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| Sanskrit | अस्यां च भूमौ बोधिसत्त्वस्य धर्मधातुसमुदागमता प्रबोधात् स्वार्थ इव परार्थे प्रवर्तनात्, दानपारमिता 'तिरिक्ता भवति। स च बोधिसत्त्वः समधिगततत्त्वो 'पि वा यावन् न शक्नोति सूक्ष्मापत्तिस्खलितेषु संप्रजन्यविहारीभवितुम्, तावत् प्रथमा भूमिः। यदा तु शक्नोति तदास्याङ्गस्य परिपूरितो द्वितीया भूमिर् व्यवस्थाप्यते। |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SegmentOrder | 231 |
| SktTransliteration | asyāṃ ca bhūmau bodhisattvasya dharmadhātusamudāgamatā prabodhāt svārtha iva parārthe pravartanāt, dānapāramitā 'tiriktā bhavati, sa ca bodhisattvaḥ samadhigatatattvo 'pi vā yāvan na śaknoti sūkṣmāpattiskhaliteṣu saṃprajanyavihārībhavitum, tāvat prathamā bhūmiḥ, yadā tu śaknoti tadāsyāṅgasya paripūrito dvitīyā bhūmir vyavasthāpyate, |
| SourcePageNumber | 39b |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 23 |
| Tibetan | ས་དེར་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཀུན་ཏུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཉིད་རྟོགས་པས་བདག་གི་དོན་དང་འདྲ་བར་གཞན་གྱི་གང་གི་ཚེ་ནུས་པ་དེའི་ཡན་ལག་དེ་ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པས་ས་གཉིས་པར་རྣམ་པར་གཞག་གོ། །[p.110-40a]Bhāvanākrama (RKTST 4228) |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | The ten bhūmis and the Buddhabhūmi |
| Wylie | gang gi tshe nus pa de'i yan lag de yongs su rdzogs pas sa gnyis par rnam par gzhag go/_/ |
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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 |
