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020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-3/66 ID: 020-Tsadra-BC-Root-Bhavanakrama-3 <br> Date: February 2026 <br> Creator: Dawa, Ishwor, Karma Jurmay <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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Therefore, having vanquished the enemy-afflictions with the arrow of wisdom, with his eye of knowledge open and released,22Tucci 18.2: vispharita - A pun. This Sanskrit past passive participle conveys the general sense of ‘opened’, but also the very specific meaning of a bowstring's being ‘released’ or ‘twanged’. Since no single English word seems to convey both senses, I have translated with two words: ‘opened’ and ‘released’. The Tibetan phye conveys the former meaning alone. D63a4-5: de lta bas na rnal 'byor pas ye shes kyi mig phye la shes rab kyi mtshon gyis nyons mongs pas dgra rnams pham par bya ste / 'jigs pa med par gnas pa'i phyir mi sdar ma bzhin du mig 'dzums par mi bya'o / CIHTS, following N and P, has: 'jigs pa med par gnas par bya'i / mi sdar ma bzhin du mig 'dzums par mi bya'o / the yogin stands without fear—not like an eye-shutting coward! This is also expressed in the Noble Samādhirāja:

Sanskrit

तस्माद् विस्फारितज्ञानचक्षुः प्रज्ञाशस्त्रेण क्लेशारीन् निर्जित्य, निर्भयो विहरन् योगी, न तु कातरपुरुष इव विनिमीलिताक्षः। आर्यसमाधिराजे'प्य् उक्तम्।

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tasmād visphāritajñānacakṣuḥ prajñāśastreṇa kleśārīn nirjitya, nirbhayo viharan yogī, na tu kātarapuruṣa iva vinimīlitākṣaḥ, āryasamādhirāje'py uktam,

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63a

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6.4

Tibetan

ཞེས་འབྱུང་ངོ་། །དེ་ལྟ་བས་ན་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མིག་ཕྱེ་ལ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་མཚོན་གྱིས་ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་དགྲ་རྣམས་ཕམ་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། འཇིགས་པ་མེད་པར་གནས་པའི་ཕྱིར་མི་སྡར་མ་བཞིན་དུ་མིག་འཛུམས་པར་མི་བྱའོ། །འཕགས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་མདོ་ལས་ཀྱང་བཀའ་སྩལ་ཏེ།

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Confirmation by Buddhavacana

Wylie

zhes 'byung ngo /_/de lta bas na rnal 'byor pas ye shes kyi mig phye la shes rab kyi mtshon gyis nyon mongs pa'i dgra rnams pham par bya ste/_'jigs pa med par gnas pa'i phyir mi sdar ma bzhin du mig 'dzums par mi bya'o/_/'phags pa ting nge 'dzin gyi rgyal po'i mdo las kyang bka' stsal te/

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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 3 of 3]. Tengyur, RKTST 4230 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=4230&typ=2.
SourceShortTitle Bhāvanākrama 3
SourceTitleTibetan བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ།
SourceTitleWylie bsgom pa'i rim pa
SourceWikiPage Texts/Bhāvanākrama of Kamalaśīla (3 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-3
TransMemNum 020
TransMemOrigin Tsadra Foundation
TransMemType Root verses