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The '''sixteen pure human laws''' ([[Wyl.]] ''mi chos gtsang ma bcu drug''), said to have been issued by decree during the reign of [[Songtsen Gampo]], can be counted in several ways. | The '''sixteen pure human laws''' (Tib. མི་ཆོས་གཙང་མ་བཅུ་དྲུག་, [[Wyl.]] ''mi chos gtsang ma bcu drug''), said to have been issued by decree during the reign of [[Songtsen Gampo]], can be counted in several ways. | ||
==Alternative Versions== | ==Alternative Versions== | ||
According to one version, followed in [[Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa]]'s ''Feast for the Learned'', they consist of abandoning the [[ten non-virtues]], and, in addition: | According to one version, followed in [[Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa]]'s ''Feast for the Learned'', they consist of abandoning the [[ten non-virtues]], and, in addition: | ||
#Regarding one's mother as one's mother and being respectful to her (''ma la ma'i 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba'') | #Regarding one's mother as one's mother and being respectful to her (མ་ལ་མའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, ''ma la ma'i 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba'') | ||
#Regarding one's father as one's father and being respectful to him'' | #Regarding one's father as one's father and being respectful to him (ཕ་ལ་ཕའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, ''pha la pha'i 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba'') | ||
#Recognizing ascetics and brahmins and being respectful to them (''dge sbyong dang bram ze la de yi 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba'') | #Recognizing ascetics and brahmins and being respectful to them (དགེ་སྦྱོང་དང་བྲམ་ཟེ་ལ་དེ་ཡི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, ''dge sbyong dang bram ze la de yi 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba'') | ||
#Showing respect to those of high status and one's elders (''rigs mtho ba dang rgan rabs la gus bkur zhu ba'') | #Showing respect to those of high status and one's elders (རིགས་མཐོ་བ་དང་རྒན་རབས་ལ་གུས་བཀུར་ཞུ་བ་, ''rigs mtho ba dang rgan rabs la gus bkur zhu ba'') | ||
#Repaying the kindness of others (''drin can gyi mi la drin lan 'jal ba'') | #Repaying the kindness of others (དྲིན་ཅན་གྱི་མི་ལ་དྲིན་ལན་འཇལ་བ་, ''drin can gyi mi la drin lan 'jal ba'') | ||
#Avoiding deceit and dishonesty towards others (''gzhan la g.yo sgyu byas nas mgo bskor mi gtong ba'') | #Avoiding deceit and dishonesty towards others (གཞན་ལ་གཡོ་སྒྱུ་བྱས་ནས་མགོ་བསྐོར་མི་གཏོང་བ་, ''gzhan la g.yo sgyu byas nas mgo bskor mi gtong ba'') | ||
According to another version<ref> | According to another version<ref>''[[Dungkar Great Tibetan Dictionary]]'', p.1600</ref>, they are as follows: | ||
#Developing devotion for the [[Three Jewels]] (''lha dkon mchog gsum la mos gus bskyed pa'') | #Developing devotion for the [[Three Jewels]] (ལྷ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་མོས་གུས་བསྐྱེད་པ་, ''lha dkon mchog gsum la mos gus bskyed pa'') | ||
#Seeking out and practising the sacred [[Dharma]] (''dam pa'i chos btsal zhing bsgrub pa'') | #Seeking out and practising the sacred [[Dharma]] (དམ་པའི་ཆོས་བཙལ་ཞིང་བསྒྲུབ་པ་, ''dam pa'i chos btsal zhing bsgrub pa'') | ||
#Repaying the kindness of one's parents (''pha ma la drin lan 'jal ba'') | #Repaying the kindness of one's parents (ཕ་མ་ལ་དྲིན་ལན་འཇལ་བ་, ''pha ma la drin lan 'jal ba'') | ||
#Showing respect to the learned (''yon tan can la zhe mthong yod pa'') | #Showing respect to the learned (ཡོན་ཏན་ཅན་ལ་ཞེ་མཐོང་ཡོད་པ་, ''yon tan can la zhe mthong yod pa'') | ||
#Being respectful to those of high status and one's elders (''rigs mtho ba dang rgan par bkur sti che ba'') | #Being respectful to those of high status and one's elders (རིགས་མཐོ་བ་དང་རྒན་པར་བཀུར་སྟི་ཆེ་བ་, ''rigs mtho ba dang rgan par bkur sti che ba'') | ||
#Being benevolent to your neighbours (''yul mi khyim mtshes la phan gdags pa'') | #Being benevolent to your neighbours (ཡུལ་མི་ཁྱིམ་མཚེས་ལ་ཕན་གདགས་པ་, ''yul mi khyim mtshes la phan gdags pa'') | ||
#Being honest (''bka' drang zhing sems chung ba'') | #Being honest (བཀའ་དྲང་ཞིང་སེམས་ཆུང་བ་, ''bka' drang zhing sems chung ba'') | ||
#Being loyal to close friends (''nye du mdza' bshes la gzhung ring ba'') | #Being loyal to close friends (ཉེ་དུ་མཛའ་བཤེས་ལ་གཞུང་རིང་བ་, ''nye du mdza' bshes la gzhung ring ba'') | ||
#Emulating those who are polite and decent (''ya rabs kyi rjes bsnyeg cing phyi thag ring ba'') | #Emulating those who are polite and decent (ཡ་རབས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་བསྙེག་ཅིང་ཕྱི་ཐག་རིང་བ་, ''ya rabs kyi rjes bsnyeg cing phyi thag ring ba'') | ||
#Having moderate food and wealth (''zas nor la tshod 'dzin pa'') | #Having moderate food and wealth (ཟས་ནོར་ལ་ཚོད་འཛིན་པ་, ''zas nor la tshod 'dzin pa'') | ||
#Repaying those who have previously shown kindness (''sngar drin can gyi mi rtsad gcad pa'') | #Repaying those who have previously shown kindness (སྔར་དྲིན་ཅན་གྱི་མི་རྩད་གཅད་པ་, ''sngar drin can gyi mi rtsad gcad pa'') | ||
#Being honest with regard to weights and measures (''bu lon dus su 'jal zhing pre srang la g.yo med pa'') | #Being honest with regard to weights and measures (བུ་ལོན་དུས་སུ་འཇལ་ཞིང་པྲེ་སྲང་ལ་གཡོ་མེད་པ་, ''bu lon dus su 'jal zhing pre srang la g.yo med pa'') | ||
#Having little jealousy (''kun la phrag dog chung ba'') | #Having little jealousy (ཀུན་ལ་ཕྲག་དོག་ཆུང་བ་, ''kun la phrag dog chung ba'') | ||
#Not being influenced by evil companions (''ngan pa'i gros la mi nyan zhing rang tshugs 'dzin pa'') | #Not being influenced by evil companions (ངན་པའི་གྲོས་ལ་མི་ཉན་ཞིང་རང་ཚུགས་འཛིན་པ་, ''ngan pa'i gros la mi nyan zhing rang tshugs 'dzin pa'') | ||
#Speaking moderately and in a gentle way (''ngag 'jam zhing smra ba nyung ba'') | #Speaking moderately and in a gentle way (ངག་འཇམ་ཞིང་སྨྲ་བ་ཉུང་བ་, ''ngag 'jam zhing smra ba nyung ba'') | ||
#Being patient and farsighted and enduring hardship (''theg pa che zhing blo khog yangs pa'') | #Being patient and farsighted and enduring hardship (ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་ཞིང་བློ་ཁོག་ཡངས་པ་, ''theg pa che zhing blo khog yangs pa'') | ||
==Sources== | |||
The sixteen also appear in the [[Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso|Great Fifth Dalai Lama]]'s history of Tibet known as ''[[The Song of the Queen of Spring]]''. A list in [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]'s ''Presentation of the Nyingma Teachings'' is attributed to a text called ''Short Chapter on Distinguishing'' (''<nowiki>'</nowiki>byed pa le'u chung''). | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*Brandon Dotson, ''Administration and Law in the Tibetan Empire: The Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan Antecedents'', D. Phil Thesis, University of Oxford | *Brandon Dotson, ''Administration and Law in the Tibetan Empire: The Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan Antecedents'', D. Phil Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006 | ||
[[Category:16-Sixteen]] | [[Category:16-Sixteen]] | ||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:50, 27 March 2017
The sixteen pure human laws (Tib. མི་ཆོས་གཙང་མ་བཅུ་དྲུག་, Wyl. mi chos gtsang ma bcu drug), said to have been issued by decree during the reign of Songtsen Gampo, can be counted in several ways.
Alternative Versions
According to one version, followed in Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa's Feast for the Learned, they consist of abandoning the ten non-virtues, and, in addition:
- Regarding one's mother as one's mother and being respectful to her (མ་ལ་མའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, ma la ma'i 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba)
- Regarding one's father as one's father and being respectful to him (ཕ་ལ་ཕའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, pha la pha'i 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba)
- Recognizing ascetics and brahmins and being respectful to them (དགེ་སྦྱོང་དང་བྲམ་ཟེ་ལ་དེ་ཡི་འདུ་ཤེས་བཟུང་ནས་གུས་བཀུར་བྱ་བ་, dge sbyong dang bram ze la de yi 'du shes bzung nas gus bkur bya ba)
- Showing respect to those of high status and one's elders (རིགས་མཐོ་བ་དང་རྒན་རབས་ལ་གུས་བཀུར་ཞུ་བ་, rigs mtho ba dang rgan rabs la gus bkur zhu ba)
- Repaying the kindness of others (དྲིན་ཅན་གྱི་མི་ལ་དྲིན་ལན་འཇལ་བ་, drin can gyi mi la drin lan 'jal ba)
- Avoiding deceit and dishonesty towards others (གཞན་ལ་གཡོ་སྒྱུ་བྱས་ནས་མགོ་བསྐོར་མི་གཏོང་བ་, gzhan la g.yo sgyu byas nas mgo bskor mi gtong ba)
According to another version[1], they are as follows:
- Developing devotion for the Three Jewels (ལྷ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ་ལ་མོས་གུས་བསྐྱེད་པ་, lha dkon mchog gsum la mos gus bskyed pa)
- Seeking out and practising the sacred Dharma (དམ་པའི་ཆོས་བཙལ་ཞིང་བསྒྲུབ་པ་, dam pa'i chos btsal zhing bsgrub pa)
- Repaying the kindness of one's parents (ཕ་མ་ལ་དྲིན་ལན་འཇལ་བ་, pha ma la drin lan 'jal ba)
- Showing respect to the learned (ཡོན་ཏན་ཅན་ལ་ཞེ་མཐོང་ཡོད་པ་, yon tan can la zhe mthong yod pa)
- Being respectful to those of high status and one's elders (རིགས་མཐོ་བ་དང་རྒན་པར་བཀུར་སྟི་ཆེ་བ་, rigs mtho ba dang rgan par bkur sti che ba)
- Being benevolent to your neighbours (ཡུལ་མི་ཁྱིམ་མཚེས་ལ་ཕན་གདགས་པ་, yul mi khyim mtshes la phan gdags pa)
- Being honest (བཀའ་དྲང་ཞིང་སེམས་ཆུང་བ་, bka' drang zhing sems chung ba)
- Being loyal to close friends (ཉེ་དུ་མཛའ་བཤེས་ལ་གཞུང་རིང་བ་, nye du mdza' bshes la gzhung ring ba)
- Emulating those who are polite and decent (ཡ་རབས་ཀྱི་རྗེས་བསྙེག་ཅིང་ཕྱི་ཐག་རིང་བ་, ya rabs kyi rjes bsnyeg cing phyi thag ring ba)
- Having moderate food and wealth (ཟས་ནོར་ལ་ཚོད་འཛིན་པ་, zas nor la tshod 'dzin pa)
- Repaying those who have previously shown kindness (སྔར་དྲིན་ཅན་གྱི་མི་རྩད་གཅད་པ་, sngar drin can gyi mi rtsad gcad pa)
- Being honest with regard to weights and measures (བུ་ལོན་དུས་སུ་འཇལ་ཞིང་པྲེ་སྲང་ལ་གཡོ་མེད་པ་, bu lon dus su 'jal zhing pre srang la g.yo med pa)
- Having little jealousy (ཀུན་ལ་ཕྲག་དོག་ཆུང་བ་, kun la phrag dog chung ba)
- Not being influenced by evil companions (ངན་པའི་གྲོས་ལ་མི་ཉན་ཞིང་རང་ཚུགས་འཛིན་པ་, ngan pa'i gros la mi nyan zhing rang tshugs 'dzin pa)
- Speaking moderately and in a gentle way (ངག་འཇམ་ཞིང་སྨྲ་བ་ཉུང་བ་, ngag 'jam zhing smra ba nyung ba)
- Being patient and farsighted and enduring hardship (ཐེག་པ་ཆེ་ཞིང་བློ་ཁོག་ཡངས་པ་, theg pa che zhing blo khog yangs pa)
Sources
The sixteen also appear in the Great Fifth Dalai Lama's history of Tibet known as The Song of the Queen of Spring. A list in Dudjom Rinpoche's Presentation of the Nyingma Teachings is attributed to a text called Short Chapter on Distinguishing ('byed pa le'u chung).
Notes
- ↑ Dungkar Great Tibetan Dictionary, p.1600
Further Reading
- Brandon Dotson, Administration and Law in the Tibetan Empire: The Section on Law and State and its Old Tibetan Antecedents, D. Phil Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006