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#[[Cultivating antidotes]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཉེན་པོ་བསྒོམ་པ་]]}}, ''[[gnyen po bsgom pa]]'') | #[[Cultivating antidotes]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཉེན་པོ་བསྒོམ་པ་]]}}, ''[[gnyen po bsgom pa]]'') | ||
#The [[unsurpassed vehicle]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐེག་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''[[theg pa bla na med pa]]'') | #The [[unsurpassed vehicle]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐེག་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་]]}}, ''[[theg pa bla na med pa]]'') | ||
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*{{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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==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ||
| − | {{tibquote| | + | {{tibquote|ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་པ་དང༌། །<br /> |
| − | + | ཉན་དང་ཀློག་དང་ལེན་པ་དང༌། །<br /> | |
| − | + | འཆད་དང་ཁ་དོན་བྱེད་པ་དང༌། །<br /> | |
| − | + | དེ་སེམས་པ་དང་བསྒོམ་པའོ། །<br /> | |
| − | + | སྤྱོད་པ་དེ་བཅུའི་བདག་ཉིད་ནི། །<br /> | |
| − | + | བསོད་ནམས་ཕུང་པོ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད། །<br />}} | |
Copying texts, making offerings, charity,<br /> | Copying texts, making offerings, charity,<br /> | ||
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Bring merit beyond measure.<br /> | Bring merit beyond measure.<br /> | ||
:::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', chapter 5 | :::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', chapter 5 | ||
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Revision as of 14:18, 25 March 2014
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
ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་པ་དང༌། །
ཉན་དང་ཀློག་དང་ལེན་པ་དང༌། །
འཆད་དང་ཁ་དོན་བྱེད་པ་དང༌། །
དེ་སེམས་པ་དང་བསྒོམ་པའོ། །
སྤྱོད་པ་དེ་བཅུའི་བདག་ཉིད་ནི། །
Copying texts, making offerings, charity,
Study, reading, memorizing,
Explaining, reciting aloud,
Contemplating and meditating—
These ten activities
Bring merit beyond measure.
- Maitreya, Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes, chapter 5
Commentaries
- Vasubandhu, Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya)
- Sthiramati, Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭikā
