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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.
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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.
  
 
==Outline==
 
==Outline==
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==[[Tibetan]] Text==
 
==[[Tibetan]] Text==
*{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'', madhyanta vibhanga}}
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*{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''[[dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa]]'', [[madhyanta vibhanga]]}}
  
 
==Translations==
 
==Translations==
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བསོད་ནམས་ཕུང་པོ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད། །<br />}}
 
བསོད་ནམས་ཕུང་པོ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད། །<br />}}
  
Copying texts, making offerings, charity,<br />
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Copying texts, making [[offerings]], [[charity]],<br />
 
Study, reading, memorizing,<br />
 
Study, reading, memorizing,<br />
 
Explaining, reciting aloud,<br />
 
Explaining, reciting aloud,<br />
Contemplating and meditating—<br />
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Contemplating and [[meditating]]—<br />
These ten activities<br />
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These [[ten activities]]<br />
Bring merit beyond measure.<br />
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Bring [[merit]] beyond measure.<br />
:::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', chapter 5
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:::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', [[chapter]] 5
  
 
==Commentaries==
 
==Commentaries==
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[[Category:Mahayana sutra's]]
 
[[Category:Mahayana sutra's]]
 
[[Category:Maitreya]]
 
[[Category:Maitreya]]
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[[Category:Madhyanta vibhanga]]

Revision as of 00:59, 31 March 2015

Maitreya

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:

  1. {Characteristics (Tib. མཚན་ཉིད་, mtshan nyid)
  2. Obscurations (Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་, sgrib pa)
  3. Reality (Tib. དེ་ཁོ་ན་, de kho na)
  4. Cultivating antidotes (Tib. གཉེན་པོ་བསྒོམ་པ་, gnyen po bsgom pa)
  5. The unsurpassed vehicle (Tib. ཐེག་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་, theg pa bla na med pa)

Tibetan Text

Translations

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། །

བསོད་ནམས་ཕུང་པོ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད། །

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

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