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==Quotations== | ==Quotations== | ||
| − | {{tibquote| | + | {{tibquote|ཆུང་ངུ་འབྲིང་དང་མཆོག་གྱུར་བའི། །<br /> |
| − | + | སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །<br />}} | |
| − | You should know that beings are of three kinds—<br /> | + | You should know that [[beings]] are of three kinds—<br /> |
| − | Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.<br /> | + | Those of lesser, [[intermediate]] and supreme capacity.<br /> |
:::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 2ab | :::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 2ab | ||
| − | {{tibquote| | + | {{tibquote|གང་ཞིག་ཐབས་ནི་གང་དག་གིས། །<br /> |
| − | + | འཁོར་བའི་བདེ་བ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །<br /> | |
| − | + | རང་ཉིད་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བྱེད་པ། །<br /> | |
| − | + | དེ་ནི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཐ་མར་ཤེས། །<br />}} | |
Those who strive by any means<br /> | Those who strive by any means<br /> | ||
| − | To gain only the pleasures of samsara<br /> | + | To gain only the [[pleasures]] of [[samsara]]<br /> |
For themselves alone—<br /> | For themselves alone—<br /> | ||
| − | Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.<br /> | + | Such [[people]] are called 'lesser' {{Wiki|individuals}}.<br /> |
:::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 3 | :::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 3 | ||
| − | {{tibquote| | + | {{tibquote|སྲིད་པའི་བདེ་ལ་རྒྱབ་ཕྱོགས་ཤིང་། །<br /> |
| − | + | སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ལས་ལྡོག་བདག་ཉིད། །<br /> | |
| − | + | གང་ཞིག་རང་ཞི་ཙམ་དོན་གཉེར། །<br /> | |
| − | + | སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ནི་འབྲིང་ཞེས་བྱ། །<br />}} | |
| − | Those who turn their backs on worldly pleasures,<br /> | + | Those who turn their backs on [[worldly]] [[pleasures]],<br /> |
| − | And avoid any harmful actions,<br /> | + | And avoid any harmful [[actions]],<br /> |
| − | Striving for peace for themselves alone—<br /> | + | Striving for [[peace]] for themselves alone—<br /> |
| − | Such individuals are said to be 'intermediate'.<br /> | + | Such {{Wiki|individuals}} are said to be '[[intermediate]]'.<br /> |
:::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 4 | :::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 4 | ||
| − | {{tibquote| | + | {{tibquote|རང་རྒྱུད་གཏོགས་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱིས། །<br /> |
| − | + | གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །<br /> | |
| − | + | ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་ཀུན་ནས་འདོད། །<br /> | |
| − | + | སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ནི་མཆོག་ཡིན་ནོ། །<br />}} | |
Those who long to put a complete end<br /> | Those who long to put a complete end<br /> | ||
| − | To all the sufferings of others<br /> | + | To all the [[sufferings]] of others<br /> |
| − | Through the sufferings of their own | + | Through the [[sufferings]] of their own [[experience]]—<br /> |
| − | Individuals such as these are supreme.<br /> | + | {{Wiki|Individuals}} such as these are supreme.<br /> |
:::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 5 | :::''[[Atisha|Atīśa]]'', ''[[Lamp for the Path of Awakening|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]'', 5 | ||
Latest revision as of 13:48, 30 December 2014
Lamp for the Path of Awakening (Skt. bodhipathapradīpa; Wyl. byang chub lam sgron) - Atisha's most famous and influential treatise, in which he defined the three levels of spiritual capacity and, in just 68 verses, laid the foundation for the lamrim tradition.
Translations
- Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Snow Lion, 1997
- Ronald M. Davidson, Atiśa's Lamp for the Path to Awakening', in Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 1995
Quotations
ཆུང་ངུ་འབྲིང་དང་མཆོག་གྱུར་བའི། །
སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
You should know that beings are of three kinds—
Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.
གང་ཞིག་ཐབས་ནི་གང་དག་གིས། །
འཁོར་བའི་བདེ་བ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །
རང་ཉིད་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བྱེད་པ། །
Those who strive by any means
To gain only the pleasures of samsara
For themselves alone—
Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.
སྲིད་པའི་བདེ་ལ་རྒྱབ་ཕྱོགས་ཤིང་། །
སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ལས་ལྡོག་བདག་ཉིད། །
གང་ཞིག་རང་ཞི་ཙམ་དོན་གཉེར། །
Those who turn their backs on worldly pleasures,
And avoid any harmful actions,
Striving for peace for themselves alone—
Such individuals are said to be 'intermediate'.
རང་རྒྱུད་གཏོགས་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱིས། །
གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །
ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་ཀུན་ནས་འདོད། །
Those who long to put a complete end
To all the sufferings of others
Through the sufferings of their own experience—
Individuals such as these are supreme.
