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| − | [[Image:Maitreya.jpg|thumb|250|Maitreya]][[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]] (Skt. ''[[Madhyāntavibhāga]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དབུས་མཐའ་རྣམ་འབྱེད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[dbus mtha' rnam 'byed]]'') — one of the [[five treatises of Maitreya]]. It is included among the so-called "[[Thirteen great texts]]", which [[form]] the core of the {{Wiki|curriculum}} in most [[shedra]]s and on which [[Khenpo Shenga]] provided commentaries. | + | [[Image:Maitreya.jpg|thumb|250|Maitreya]] |
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| + | [[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]] (Skt. ''[[Madhyāntavibhāga]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དབུས་མཐའ་རྣམ་འབྱེད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[dbus mtha' rnam 'byed]]'') — one of the [[five treatises of Maitreya]]. It is included among the so-called "[[Thirteen great texts]]", which [[form]] the core of the {{Wiki|curriculum}} in most [[shedra]]s and on which [[Khenpo Shenga]] provided commentaries. | ||
==Outline== | ==Outline== | ||
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==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ||
| − | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'', madhyanta vibhanga}} | + | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''[[dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa]]'', [[madhyanta vibhanga]]}} |
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==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
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*''[[Middle Beyond Extremes]]: [[Maitreya's]] [[Madhyantavibhanga]] with Commentaries by [[Khenpo Shenga]] and [[Ju Mipham]]'', {{Nolinking|Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007}} | *''[[Middle Beyond Extremes]]: [[Maitreya's]] [[Madhyantavibhanga]] with Commentaries by [[Khenpo Shenga]] and [[Ju Mipham]]'', {{Nolinking|Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007}} | ||
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==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ||
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| − | Copying texts, making offerings, charity,<br /> | + | |
| + | {{tibquote|[[ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་པ་དང༌།]] །<br /> | ||
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| + | [[ཉན་དང་ཀློག་དང་ལེན་པ་དང༌།]] །<br /> | ||
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| + | [[འཆད་དང་ཁ་དོན་བྱེད་པ་དང༌།]] །<br /> | ||
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| + | [[དེ་སེམས་པ་དང་བསྒོམ་པའོ།]] །<br /> | ||
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| + | [[སྤྱོད་པ་དེ་བཅུའི་བདག་ཉིད་ནི།]] །<br /> | ||
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| + | [[བསོད་ནམས་ཕུང་པོ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད།]] །<br />}} | ||
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| + | Copying texts, making [[offerings]], [[charity]],<br /> | ||
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Study, reading, memorizing,<br /> | Study, reading, memorizing,<br /> | ||
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Explaining, reciting aloud,<br /> | Explaining, reciting aloud,<br /> | ||
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| − | These ten activities<br /> | + | Contemplating and [[meditating]]—<br /> |
| − | Bring merit beyond measure.<br /> | + | |
| − | :::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', chapter 5 | + | |
| + | These [[ten activities]]<br /> | ||
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| + | Bring [[merit]] [[beyond]] measure.<br /> | ||
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| + | :::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', [[chapter]] 5 | ||
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==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
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*[[Vasubandhu]], ''Commentary on [[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' (''Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya'') | *[[Vasubandhu]], ''Commentary on [[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' (''Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya'') | ||
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*[[Sthiramati]], ''[[Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭikā]]'' | *[[Sthiramati]], ''[[Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭikā]]'' | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
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*[http://www.dharmachakra.net/tibetan.php Tibetan texts of Khenpo Shenga's and Ju Mipham's commentaries] | *[http://www.dharmachakra.net/tibetan.php Tibetan texts of Khenpo Shenga's and Ju Mipham's commentaries] | ||
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{{RigpaWiki}} | {{RigpaWiki}} | ||
[[Category:Mahayana sutra's]] | [[Category:Mahayana sutra's]] | ||
[[Category:Maitreya]] | [[Category:Maitreya]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:47, 26 March 2023
Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Skt. Madhyāntavibhāga; Tib. དབུས་མཐའ་རྣམ་འབྱེད་, Wyl. dbus mtha' rnam 'byed) — one of the five treatises of Maitreya. It is included among the so-called "Thirteen great texts", which form the core of the curriculum in most shedras and on which Khenpo Shenga provided commentaries.
Outline
The text has five chapters:
- {Characteristics (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་, mtshan nyid)
- Obscurations (Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་, sgrib pa)
- Reality (Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་, de kho na)
- Cultivating antidotes (Tib. གཉེན་པོ་བསྒོམ་པ་, gnyen po bsgom pa)
- The unsurpassed vehicle (Tib. ཐེག་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་, theg pa bla na med pa)
Tibetan Text
Translations
- Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya's Madhyantavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007
Quotations
Copying texts, making offerings, charity,
Study, reading, memorizing,
Explaining, reciting aloud,
Contemplating and meditating—
These ten activities
Commentaries
- Vasubandhu, Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya)
External Links
