ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པའི་སྡེ་

ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པའི་སྡེ། (Wyl. tshigs su bcad pa'i sde ) Pron.: tsik su chepé dé

- Gāthā -

set of verses. A stanza or song produced by a mind in a condition of spiritual insight.

See the Thera- and the Therīgāthā, the Songs of the Brethren and Sisters, in the Pali Canon (see A.P.C.). The records of Zen Bsm. give many cases of men expressing their sudden flashes of enlightenment in Gāthā form,

• discourses in verse

• cf. ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་

• Skt. गाथा, gāthā, Pron.: gatha. From Sanskrit: a verse, stanza (especially one which is neither Ṛic, nor Sāman, nor Yajus, a verse not belonging to the Vedas, but to the epic poetry of legends or

Ākhyānas, such as the Śunaḥśepa-Ākhyāna or the | the metrical part of a Sūtra | N. of the Āryā metre | any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody

See Also

• Twelve branches of the excellent teaching

Source

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