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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. |
==Outline== | ==Outline== | ||
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==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ==[[Tibetan]] Text== | ||
| − | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$W23702|{{BigTibetan|དབུ་དང་མཐའ་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེད་པ}}, ''dbu dang mtha' rnam par 'byed pa'', madhyanta vibhanga}} | + | *{{TBRCW|O00CR0008|O00CR000800CR034419$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 /> | + | Copying texts, making [[offerings]], [[charity]],<br /> |
Study, reading, memorizing,<br /> | Study, reading, memorizing,<br /> | ||
Explaining, reciting aloud,<br /> | Explaining, reciting aloud,<br /> | ||
| − | Contemplating and | + | Contemplating and [[meditating]]—<br /> |
| − | These ten activities<br /> | + | These [[ten activities]]<br /> |
| − | 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 |
==Commentaries== | ==Commentaries== | ||
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[[Category:Mahayana sutra's]] | [[Category:Mahayana sutra's]] | ||
[[Category:Maitreya]] | [[Category:Maitreya]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Madhyanta vibhanga]] | ||
Revision as of 00:59, 31 March 2015
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.
Commentaries
- Vasubandhu, Commentary on Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya)
- Sthiramati, Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭikā
