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The '''four metaphors''' (Tib. | The '''four metaphors''' (Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་བཞི་, Wyl. ''<nowiki>'</nowiki>du shes bzhi'') explain the conduct to be adopted when listening to the teachings, and are given in the ''[[Gandavyuha Sutra]]'' (''The Sutra Arranged Like a Tree'', Tib. སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པའི་མདོ་), which is the final section of the ''[[Avatamsaka Sutra]]'' (''The Flower Ornament Sutra'', Tib. མདོ་མེ་ཏོག་རྣ་རྒྱན་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ or simply, Tib. མདོ་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་).<ref>Bibliography of ''The Words of My Perfect Teacher'' by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, ISBN 0-06-066449-5, page 443.</ref> | ||
:Noble one, think of yourself as someone who is sick, | :Noble one, think of yourself as someone who is sick, | ||
:Of the [[Dharma]] as the remedy, | :Of the [[Dharma]] as the remedy, | ||
:Of your spiritual teacher as a skilful doctor, | :Of your spiritual teacher as a skilful doctor, | ||
:And of diligent practice as the way to recovery.<ref> | :And of diligent practice as the way to recovery.<ref>Patrul Rinpoche, ''Preliminary Points to be Explained When Teaching the Buddha’s Word or the Treatises'', translated by Adam Pearcey.</ref> | ||
== | ==Tibetan== | ||
:<big><span style="color:#800000"> ༈ སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པ་ལས།</span> | :<big><span style="color:#800000"> ༈ སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པ་ལས།</span> | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', translated by Padmakara Translation Group | *[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'', translated by Padmakara Translation Group, pages 16-18 | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* | *{{LH|patrul/preliminary_points.html|Patrul Rinpoche, ''Preliminary Points to be Explained When Teaching the Buddha’s Word or the Treatises''}} | ||
[[Category:04-Four]] | [[Category:04-Four]] | ||
[[Category:Enumerations]] | [[Category:Enumerations]] | ||
Revision as of 10:50, 20 September 2014
The four metaphors (Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་བཞི་, Wyl. 'du shes bzhi) explain the conduct to be adopted when listening to the teachings, and are given in the Gandavyuha Sutra (The Sutra Arranged Like a Tree, Tib. སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པའི་མདོ་), which is the final section of the Avatamsaka Sutra (The Flower Ornament Sutra, Tib. མདོ་མེ་ཏོག་རྣ་རྒྱན་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ or simply, Tib. མདོ་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་).[1]
- Noble one, think of yourself as someone who is sick,
- Of the Dharma as the remedy,
- Of your spiritual teacher as a skilful doctor,
- And of diligent practice as the way to recovery.[2]
Tibetan
- ༈ སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པ་ལས།
- རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་བདག་ཉིད་ལ་ནད་པའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
- ཆོས་ལ་སྨན་གྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
- དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ལ་སྨན་པ་མཁས་པའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
- ནན་ཏན་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་པ་ནི་ནད་ཉེ་བར་འཚོ་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
Alternative Translations
- Four ideas
- Four notions
- Four attitudes (Padmakara Translation Group)
References
Further Reading
- Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, pages 16-18
