Difference between revisions of "Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes"
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#[[Obscurations]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒྲིབ་པ་]]}}, ''[[sgrib pa]]'') | #[[Obscurations]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒྲིབ་པ་]]}}, ''[[sgrib pa]]'') | ||
| − | #[[Reality]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|དེ་ཁོ་ན་}}, ''de kho na'') | + | #[[Reality]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|དེ་ཁོ་ན་}}, ''[[de kho na]]'') |
#[[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 | + | #The [[unsurpassed vehicle]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|ཐེག་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་}}, ''[[theg pa]] bla na med pa'') |
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Revision as of 09:27, 14 January 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: Template:Tibetan
- {[[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
Quotations: Maitreya, Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes, Ten activities bringing merit
Commentaries
- Vasubandhu, Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya)
- Sthiramati, Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭikā
External Links
- Tibetan texts of Khenpo Shenga's and Ju Mipham's commentaries
