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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]][[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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==Outline== | ==Outline== | ||
The text has five chapters: | The text has five chapters: | ||
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#{[[Characteristics]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཚན་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[mtshan nyid]]'') | #{[[Characteristics]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཚན་ཉིད་]]}}, ''[[mtshan nyid]]'') | ||
#[[Obscurations]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒྲིབ་པ་]]}}, ''[[sgrib pa]]'') | #[[Obscurations]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྒྲིབ་པ་]]}}, ''[[sgrib pa]]'') | ||
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#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]]'') | ||
==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ||
| − | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan| | + | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'', madhyanta vibhanga}} |
==Translations== | ==Translations== | ||
| − | *''[[Middle Beyond Extremes]]: [[Maitreya's]] [[Madhyantavibhanga]] with Commentaries by [[Khenpo Shenga]] and [[Ju Mipham]]'', | + | *''[[Middle Beyond Extremes]]: [[Maitreya's]] [[Madhyantavibhanga]] with Commentaries by [[Khenpo Shenga]] and [[Ju Mipham]]'', {{Nolinking|Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Snow Lion, 2007}} |
==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ==[[Quotations: Indian Masters#Maitreya|Quotations]]== | ||
| − | {{: | + | {{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 />}} | ||
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| + | Copying texts, making offerings, charity,<br /> | ||
| + | Study, reading, memorizing,<br /> | ||
| + | Explaining, reciting aloud,<br /> | ||
| + | Contemplating and meditating—<br /> | ||
| + | These ten activities<br /> | ||
| + | Bring merit beyond measure.<br /> | ||
| + | :::''[[Maitreya]]'', ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'', chapter 5 | ||
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==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| − | *[http://www.dharmachakra.net/tibetan.php Tibetan texts of | + | *[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]] | ||
Revision as of 14:17, 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
