020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/246 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

But an explanation of the qualities of this Buddha level cannot be conveyed in all its aspects, even by the Buddhas. Being immeasurable, how (could they be related) by the likes of me? Just as was expressed in the noble Gaṇḍavyūha:

Sanskrit

अस्याश् च बुद्धभूमेर् गुणपक्षप्रभेदो बुद्धैर् अपि न शक्यते सर्वाकारं वक्तुम्। तस्या अप्रमेयत्वात् कथां पुनर् अस्मत्सदृशैः। यथोक्तम् आर्यगण्डव्यूहे

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246

SktTransliteration

asyāś ca buddhabhūmer guṇapakṣaprabhedo buddhair api na śakyate sarvākāraṃ vaktum, tasyā aprameyatvāt kathāṃ punar asmatsadṛśaiḥ, yathoktam āryagaṇḍavyūhe

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41b

SourceSabcheNumber

23

Tibetan

སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ས་དེའི་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་རབ་ཏུ་དབྱེ་བ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པས་རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་བརྗོད་པ་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་མི་སྤྱོད་ན་བདག་འདྲ་བས་ལྟ་སྨོས་ཀྱང་ཅི་དགོས། ཇི་སྐད་དུ། འཕགས་པ་སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པ་ལས་ཀྱང་།

TranslationChapterSubsection

The ten bhūmis and the Buddhabhūmi

Wylie

sangs rgyas kyi sa de'i yon tan gyi phyogs rab tu dbye ba dpag tu med pas rnam pa thams cad brjod pa ni sangs rgyas rnams kyis kyang mi spyod na bdag 'dra bas lta smos kyang ci dgos/_ji skad du/_'phags pa sdong po bkod pa las kyang /

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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