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'''Twelve branches of the excellent teaching''' ([[Wyl.]] ''gsung rab yan lag bcu gnyis'') — | '''Twelve branches of the excellent teaching''' (Tib. གསུང་རབ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་, [[Wyl.]] ''gsung rab yan lag bcu gnyis'') — | ||
#[[sutra]]s (Wyl. ''mdo'') | #[[sutra]]s (Tib. [[མདོའི་སྡེ་]], Wyl. ''mdo'i sde'') | ||
#poetic summaries (Skt. geya, Wyl. ''dbyangs bsnyad'') | #poetic summaries (Skt. geya, Tib. [[དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བསྙད་པའི་སྡེ་]], Wyl. ''dbyangs kyis bsnyad pa sde'') | ||
#prophecies (Skt. vyakarana, Wyl. ''lung bstan'') | #prophecies (Skt. vyakarana, Tib. [[ལུང་བསྟན་པའི་སྡེ་]], Wyl. ''lung bstan pa'i sde'') | ||
#discourses in verse (Skt. gatha, Wyl. ''tshigs bcad'') | #discourses in verse (Skt. gatha, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''tshigs bcad'') | ||
#intentional statements (Skt. udana, Wyl. ''ched du brjod pa'') | #intentional statements (Skt. udana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''ched du brjod pa'') | ||
#contextual accounts (Skt. nidana, Wyl. ''gleng gzhi'') | #contextual accounts (Skt. nidana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''gleng gzhi'') | ||
#testimonies of realization (Skt. avadana, Wyl. ''rtogs brjod'') | #testimonies of realization (Skt. avadana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''rtogs brjod'') | ||
#historical explanations (Skt. itivrttaka, Wyl. ''de ltar byung ba'') | #historical explanations (Skt. itivrttaka, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''de ltar byung ba'') | ||
#accounts of former lives (Skt. [[jataka]], Wyl. ''skyes rabs'') | #accounts of former lives (Skt. [[jataka]], Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''skyes rabs'') | ||
#detailed explanations (Skt. vaipulya, Wyl. ''shin tu rgyas pa'') | #detailed explanations (Skt. vaipulya, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''shin tu rgyas pa'') | ||
#wondrous discourses (Skt. abidhutadharma, Wyl. ''rmad du byung ba'') | #wondrous discourses (Skt. abidhutadharma, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''rmad du byung ba'') | ||
#definitive explanations (Skt. upadesha, Wyl. ''gtan la phab'') | #definitive explanations (Skt. upadesha, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ''gtan la phab'') | ||
These are said to be the twelve text categories within the [[Tripitaka]], and include all the teachings of the [[Buddha]]. | These are said to be the twelve text categories within the [[Tripitaka]], and include all the teachings of the [[Buddha]]. | ||
Revision as of 03:52, 27 April 2011
Twelve branches of the excellent teaching (Tib. གསུང་རབ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་, Wyl. gsung rab yan lag bcu gnyis) —
- sutras (Tib. མདོའི་སྡེ་, Wyl. mdo'i sde)
- poetic summaries (Skt. geya, Tib. དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བསྙད་པའི་སྡེ་, Wyl. dbyangs kyis bsnyad pa sde)
- prophecies (Skt. vyakarana, Tib. ལུང་བསྟན་པའི་སྡེ་, Wyl. lung bstan pa'i sde)
- discourses in verse (Skt. gatha, Tib. [[]], Wyl. tshigs bcad)
- intentional statements (Skt. udana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. ched du brjod pa)
- contextual accounts (Skt. nidana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. gleng gzhi)
- testimonies of realization (Skt. avadana, Tib. [[]], Wyl. rtogs brjod)
- historical explanations (Skt. itivrttaka, Tib. [[]], Wyl. de ltar byung ba)
- accounts of former lives (Skt. jataka, Tib. [[]], Wyl. skyes rabs)
- detailed explanations (Skt. vaipulya, Tib. [[]], Wyl. shin tu rgyas pa)
- wondrous discourses (Skt. abidhutadharma, Tib. [[]], Wyl. rmad du byung ba)
- definitive explanations (Skt. upadesha, Tib. [[]], Wyl. gtan la phab)
These are said to be the twelve text categories within the Tripitaka, and include all the teachings of the Buddha.