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Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, the fourteenth-century Kadampa master who studied at Ngulchu Monastery and was a disciple of Buton Rinchen Drub and Rendawa Zhonnu Lodro,<ref>Samten Chhosphel, "Gyelse Tokme Zangpo," ''Treasury of Lives'', accessed April 03, 2024, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gyelse-Tokme-Zangpo/3153.</ref> divides chapter 4 into three points of focus for conscientiousness: (1) that which is in regard to training in what is to be accomplished, which is bodhicitta, (2) that which is in regard to thinking about the support, which is precious human rebirth, and (3) that which is in regard to what is to be abandoned, which are the afflictions.<ref>Ngul Chu Tokme Zangpo, ''An Ocean of Excellent Explanation'' (Varanasi: Sakya Students Union 2003), 167.</ref>
Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, the fourteenth-century Kadampa master who studied at Ngulchu Monastery and was a disciple of Buton Rinchen Drub and Rendawa Zhonnu Lodro,<ref>Samten Chhosphel, "Gyelse Tokme Zangpo," ''Treasury of Lives'', accessed April 03, 2024, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gyelse-Tokme-Zangpo/3153.</ref> divides chapter 4 into three points of focus for conscientiousness: (1) that which is in regard to training in what is to be accomplished, which is bodhicitta, (2) that which is in regard to thinking about the support, which is precious human rebirth, and (3) that which is in regard to what is to be abandoned, which are the afflictions.<ref>Ngul Chu Tokme Zangpo, ''An Ocean of Excellent Explanation'' (Varanasi: Sakya Students Union 2003), 167.</ref>


Padma Karpo explains these same divisions in a slightly different way: (1) advice for undertaking perseverance in the practices to be accomplished, (2) advice on exerting oneself in the conducive side of virtue, now that one is endowed with the support, and (3) advice on overcoming the nonconducive side, the enemy of the afflictions. <ref>Pema Karpo, ''A Lamp for the Middle Way: A Commentary on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Spyod 'jug gi 'bru 'grel dbu ma'i lam gyi sgron ma'' (Kathmandu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, 2017), 15 (e-book), https://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/library/?post_types=book,book_author&search-terms=A+Lamp+for+the+Middle+Way:+A+Commentary+on+the+Bodhisattvacharyavatara&subjects=any&view=list/</ref>
Padma Karpo, the 4th Drukchen who was a great monastic scholar and systematized the teaching of the 'Brug pa sect,<ref>E. Gene Smith, ''Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau'', ed. Kurtis R Schaeffer (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001), 81</ref> explains these same divisions in a slightly different way: (1) advice for undertaking perseverance in the practices to be accomplished, (2) advice on exerting oneself in the conducive side of virtue, now that one is endowed with the support, and (3) advice on overcoming the nonconducive side, the enemy of the afflictions. <ref>Pema Karpo, ''A Lamp for the Middle Way: A Commentary on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Spyod 'jug gi 'bru 'grel dbu ma'i lam gyi sgron ma'' (Kathmandu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, 2017), 15 (e-book), https://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/library/?post_types=book,book_author&search-terms=A+Lamp+for+the+Middle+Way:+A+Commentary+on+the+Bodhisattvacharyavatara&subjects=any&view=list/</ref>


<h4>Conscientiousness in Regard to What Is to Be Accomplished</h4>
<h4>Conscientiousness in Regard to What Is to Be Accomplished</h4>

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