Three disciplines of a bodhisattva
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The discipline of a bodhisattva is threefold(Tib. བྱང་སེམས་ཀྱི་˙ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་གསུམ་ , Wyl. tshul khrims gsum). It consists of:
- the discipline of restraining from evil activity, (Tib. ཉེས་སྤྱོད་སྡོམ་པའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་, Wyl. nyes spyod sdom pa’i tshul khrims)
- the discipline of gathering virtue, (Tib. དགེ་བ་འི་˙ཆོས་སྡུད་པའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ , Wyl. dge ba'i chos dud kyi tshul khrims) and
- the discipline of bringing benefit to beings (Tib. སེམས་ཅན་དོན་བྱེད་པའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་, Wyl. sems can don byed kyi tshul khrims).[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Khenpo Kunpal, The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech, a detailed commentary on Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, p.35. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. Published by Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6, ISBN 978-1-59030-699-4