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'''Four ways of attracting disciples''' (Tib. བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞི་, ''duwé ngöpo shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bsdu ba'i dngos po bzhi'') — the qualities of the teacher that enable him to gather fortunate students, namely:  
'''Four ways of attracting disciples''' (Skt. ''catuhsamgrahavastu''; Tib. བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞི་, ''duwé ngöpo shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bsdu ba'i dngos po bzhi'') — the qualities of the teacher that enable him to gather fortunate students, namely:  


*that he should be generous,  
*that he should be [[generosity|generous]] (Tib. མཁོ་བ་སྦྱིན་པ་, Wyl. ''mkho ba sbyin pa''). 
*his language should be pleasant,  
*his language should be pleasant (Skt. ''priyavāditā''; Tib. སྙན་པར་སྨྲ་བ་, Wyl.''snyan par smra ba''),  
*he should teach each individual according to that person’s needs, and  
*he should teach each individual according to that person’s needs (Skt. ''samānārthatā''; Tib.དོན་མཐུན་པ་, Wyl. ''don mthun pa, sam''), and  
*he should act in conformity with what he teaches.
*he should act in conformity with what he teaches (Skt. ''arthacaryā''; Tib. དོན་སྤྱོད་པ་, Wyl. ''don spyod pa'').


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Latest revision as of 20:25, 5 July 2023

Four ways of attracting disciples (Skt. catuhsamgrahavastu; Tib. བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་བཞི་, duwé ngöpo shyi, Wyl. bsdu ba'i dngos po bzhi) — the qualities of the teacher that enable him to gather fortunate students, namely:

  • that he should be generous (Tib. མཁོ་བ་སྦྱིན་པ་, Wyl. mkho ba sbyin pa).
  • his language should be pleasant (Skt. priyavāditā; Tib. སྙན་པར་སྨྲ་བ་, Wyl.snyan par smra ba),
  • he should teach each individual according to that person’s needs (Skt. samānārthatā; Tib.དོན་མཐུན་པ་, Wyl. don mthun pa, sam), and
  • he should act in conformity with what he teaches (Skt. arthacaryā; Tib. དོན་སྤྱོད་པ་, Wyl. don spyod pa).

Further Reading

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