Translation Memory:020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/97
020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-1/97 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 | Therefore, because beings such as God are devoid of all capacity, they are truly without an inherent nature, just like the son of a barren woman. For a real thing is capable of causal efficacy. They have no capacity, by way of gradual (origination), with regard to any effect whatsoever in the manner thought (by tīrthikas). |
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| Sanskrit | अत एवेस्वरादीनां सर्वसामर्थ्यशून्यत्वाद् वन्ध्यापुत्रादिवन् निःस्वभावत्वम् एव। अर्थक्रियासमर्थत्वाद् वस्तुनः। तेषां क्वचिद् अपि कार्ये न क्रमेन सामर्थ्यं यथा विचारितम्। |
| SegmentFormat | Commentary |
| SegmentOrder | 97 |
| SktTransliteration | ata evesvarādīnāṃ sarvasāmarthyaśūnyatvād vandhyāputrādivan niḥsvabhāvatvam eva, arthakriyāsamarthatvād vastunaḥ, teṣāṃ kvacid api kārye na kramena sāmarthyaṃ yathā vicāritam, |
| SourcePageNumber | 29a |
| SourceSabcheNumber | 10.2.2 |
| Tibetan | དེ་བས་ན་དབང་ཕྱུག་ལ་སོགས་པ་ནུས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱིས་སྟོང་པའི་ཕྱིར་མོ་གཤམ་གྱི་བུ་ལ་སོགས་པ་བཞིན་དུ་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་མེད་པ་ཁོ་ན་ཡིན་ནོ། །དངོས་པོ་ནི་དོན་བྱེད་ནུས་པའི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཡིན་ན་དེ་དག་ནི་གང་དུ་ཡང་འབྲས་བུ་རིམ་གྱིས་སྐྱེད་ཀྱང་མི་ནུས་ཏེ། གོང་དུ་བརྟགས་པ་ཡིན་ནོ། ། |
| TranslationChapterSubsection | Origination is not caused; criticism of God as creator |
| Wylie | de bas na dbang phyug la sogs pa nus pa thams cad kyis stong pa'i phyir mo gsham gyi bu la sogs pa bzhin du ngo bo nyid med pa kho na yin no/_/dngos po ni don byed nus pa'i mtshan nyid yin na de dag ni gang du yang 'bras bu rim gyis skyed kyang mi nus te/_gong du brtags pa yin 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 |
