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In general, there are '''four kinds of [[treatise]]''' (Tib. | In general, there are '''four kinds of [[treatise]]''' (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི་, ''tenchö shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bstan bcos bzhi'') : | ||
# a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. | # a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. '''khrugs pa bsdeb pa'i bstan bcos''); | ||
# a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. | # a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. ''gab pa 'byin pa'i bstan bcos''); | ||
# a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. | # a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. '''thor ba sdud pa'i bstan bcos''); and | ||
# a treatise that is composed with a view to | # a treatise that is composed with a view to practise (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. ''sgrub pa nyams len gyi bstan bcos '')<ref>[[ Khenpo Kunzang Palden|Khenpo Kunpal]], | ||
[[Drops of Nectar |''The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech'']], a Detailed Commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara|''Way of the Bodhisattva'']], p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.</ref> | [[Drops of Nectar |''The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech'']], a Detailed Commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara|''Way of the Bodhisattva'']], p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.</ref> | ||
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*Dudjom Rinpoche, ''The [[Nyingma]] School of Tibetan Buddhism'', Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9. | *Dudjom Rinpoche, ''The [[Nyingma]] School of Tibetan Buddhism'', Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:52, 20 May 2021
In general, there are four kinds of treatise (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི་, tenchö shyi, Wyl. bstan bcos bzhi) :
- a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. 'khrugs pa bsdeb pa'i bstan bcos);
- a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. gab pa 'byin pa'i bstan bcos);
- a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. 'thor ba sdud pa'i bstan bcos); and
- a treatise that is composed with a view to practise (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. sgrub pa nyams len gyi bstan bcos )[1]
References
- ↑ Khenpo Kunpal, The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech, a Detailed Commentary on Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.
Further Reading
For a more elaborate classification see:
- Appendix 2 in Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice, pp. 354-364, The Tsadra Foundation Series, ISBN 10 1-55939-224-X, and:
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9.