020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/5 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 | Knowing that compassion alone is the root cause of Buddha-qualities without remainder, this is precisely what is to be cultivated at the very beginning. As it is said in the noble Dharmasaṃgīti Sūtra: |
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| Sanskrit | बुद्धत्वस्य अशेषधर्महेतुमूलं करुणैवेति ज्ञात्वा साऽऽदावेव भावयितव्या। यथोक्तम् आर्यधर्मसंगीतिसूत्रे- |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SegmentOrder | 5 |
| SktTransliteration | buddhatvasya aśeṣadharmahetumūlaṃ karuṇaiveti jñātvā sāʼʼdāveva bhāvayitavyā, yathoktam āryadharmasaṃgītisūtre- |
| SourcePageNumber | 22a |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 1 |
| Tibetan | དེ་སྐད་དུ་འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ལས་གསུངས་ཏེ། དེ་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ལ་འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་གསོལ་ཏོ། ། |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | Great compassion is of primary importance to the bodhisattva; universality of pain; necessity of compassion |
| Wylie | de skad du 'phags pa chos yang dag par sdud pa las gsungs te/_de nas bcom ldan 'das la 'phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gis 'di skad ces gsol to/_/ |
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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 |
