Three major structural themes

As regards the three major structural themes used when teaching or explaining a text, one can teach in any of the following three ways:

1. dividing the text into sections, which is likened to the leaping of a tigress;
   
2. covering every word of the text, which is compared to the slow crawl of a tortoise; or
   
3. reviewing a section, which is likened to the majestic posture of a lion.
   

The metaphor is of a lion majestically turning its head and looking behind at the ground it has covered.

==References==

==Internal Links==

• Five major structural themes
  
• Five principal considerations
  

==External Links==

• Patrul Rinpoche, Preliminary Points to be Explained when Teaching the Buddha's Word or the Treatises

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