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''' | The '''four criteria of validity''' (Tib. ཚད་མ་བཞི་) are: | ||
#valid scripture (Tib. ལུང་ཚད་མ་ , [[Wyl.]] ''lung tshad ma'') | #valid scripture (Tib. ལུང་ཚད་མ་, [[Wyl.]] ''lung tshad ma'') | ||
#valid commentaries | #valid [[shastra|commentaries]] (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. ''bstan bcos tshad ma'') | ||
#valid teachers (Tib. བླ་མ་ཚད་མ་ , Wyl. ''bla ma tshad ma'') | #valid teachers (Tib. བླ་མ་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. ''bla ma tshad ma'') | ||
#valid experience (Tib. ཉམས་མཉོང་ཚད་མ་ , Wyl. ''nyams myong tshad ma'')<ref>Note 6 by Adam Pearcey to translation on Lotsawa House of ''The Sage's Harmonious Song of Truth', 'A Prayer for the Flourishing of the Non-Sectarian Teachings of the Buddha'' by His Holiness the Dalai Lama</ref> | #valid experience (Tib. ཉམས་མཉོང་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. ''nyams myong tshad ma'')<ref>Note 6 by Adam Pearcey to translation on Lotsawa House of ''The Sage's Harmonious Song of Truth', 'A Prayer for the Flourishing of the Non-Sectarian Teachings of the Buddha'' by His Holiness the Dalai Lama</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 19:59, 1 March 2015
The four criteria of validity (Tib. ཚད་མ་བཞི་) are:
- valid scripture (Tib. ལུང་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. lung tshad ma)
- valid commentaries (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. bstan bcos tshad ma)
- valid teachers (Tib. བླ་མ་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. bla ma tshad ma)
- valid experience (Tib. ཉམས་མཉོང་ཚད་མ་, Wyl. nyams myong tshad ma)[1]
References
- ↑ Note 6 by Adam Pearcey to translation on Lotsawa House of The Sage's Harmonious Song of Truth', 'A Prayer for the Flourishing of the Non-Sectarian Teachings of the Buddha by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Alternative Translations
- Four means of validation (Philogia Tibetica)