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The '''three qualifications for composing a [[shastra]]''' (Tib. <big>བསྟན་བཅོས་རྩོམ་པའི་རྒྱུ་གསུམ།</big> ) are a perfect realization of [[Absolute truth|ultimate reality]], a vision of the [[yidam]] [[deity]], and a complete knowledge of the [[five sciences]]. <ref>[[Khenpo Kunpal]], ''[[Drops of Nectar|The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech]]'', a detailed commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara|Way of the Bodhisattva]], Note 30, p.445. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6, ISBN 978-1-59030-699-4</ref> | The '''three qualifications for composing a [[shastra]]''' (Tib. <big>བསྟན་བཅོས་རྩོམ་པའི་རྒྱུ་གསུམ།</big> ) are | ||
#a perfect realization of [[Absolute truth|ultimate reality]], | |||
#a vision of the [[yidam]] [[deity]], and | |||
#a complete knowledge of the [[five sciences]]. <ref>[[Khenpo Kunpal]], ''[[Drops of Nectar|The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech]]'', a detailed commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara|Way of the Bodhisattva]], Note 30, p.445. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6, ISBN 978-1-59030-699-4</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 07:04, 23 July 2012
The three qualifications for composing a shastra (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་རྩོམ་པའི་རྒྱུ་གསུམ། ) are
- a perfect realization of ultimate reality,
- a vision of the yidam deity, and
- a complete knowledge of the five sciences. [1]
References
- ↑ Khenpo Kunpal, The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech, a detailed commentary on Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, Note 30, p.445. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6, ISBN 978-1-59030-699-4