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2020-02-21T19:29:17Z

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2020-02-21T19:24:16Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-21 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Key Terms/dpyad sgom |fbContent=where did the basic meaning definition come from? It's very wordy..."

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also what Thrangu R says doesn't make sense:
In analytical meditation, one reads (or listens to) a passage giving a logical argument and then one goes into a deep Shamatha meditation and contemplates this argument.

"deep shamatha meditation"? I wonder if Rinpoche really said this. Those Namo Buddha publications are not reliable records of what Thrangu Rinpoche said.
The problem is that vipashyana is predominantly analytical meditation.
Could we find better text for "has the sense of"? I can point you to Moonbeams, 87-89, as an example. I'm not suggesting that you use this but it shows you why I'm wondering what Thrangu Rinpoche actually said.

The terms “analytical” and “resting” are designated from the perspective of what they emphasize. “Analytical meditation” refers to the meditative process that uses inferential cognition as its path and primarily determines the view by relying on critical investigation using scriptures and reasonings. “Resting meditation” refers to the meditative process that uses direct cognition as its path and primarily determines the view through remaining in equipoise with suchness.
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Furthermore, broadly speaking, if [we look at this] from the perspective of the use of the terms “analysis” and “resting,” meditations that involve critical investigation must be considered analytical meditation, and meditations during which we settle into the natural state and rest must be resting meditation. Other meanings of the words “analysis” and “resting” would be difficult to explain [or justify]. That being so, all meditations involving intelligent critical investigation—beginning with the meditation on the difficulties of ac-quiring the leisures and opportunities [of a precious human life] and the meditation on im-permanence up through determining the two absences of self-entity—must be analytical meditation. All types of resting evenly on the object of meditation that is the subject of analysis, with one-pointed mindfulness and alertness, must be resting meditation.
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2020-02-21T18:16:39Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-21 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Primary Sources |fbContent=whose translation is this: “The Ultimate Continuum (uttaratantra) of..."

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“The Ultimate Continuum (uttaratantra) of the Mahāyāna, A Treatise (śāstra) Analyzing (vibhāga) the Source (gotra) of the Three Jewels (ratna).”
because "source" doesn't show up on the gotra glossary page ... and there's no tri in ratna. Why not "of the Jewels" or "of the [Three] Jewels"?
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2020-02-21T18:09:40Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-21 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Secondary Sources |fbContent=there's also something odd about this list under Academic Sources..."

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the first part from
'Jam mgon kong sprul. Shes bya kun khyab. Vol. 1. Pe cin: Mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1982.
to Yangthang
doesn't quite make sense here -- did some list get pasted in that shouldn't be here?
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2020-02-21T18:07:58Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-21 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Secondary Sources |fbContent=the link for this doesn't work A brief outline of the Uttaratantra S..."

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A brief outline of the Uttaratantra Shastra according to commentaries given by Jamgon Kongtrul, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche

http://www.turtlehill.org/uttara/uttara.html 404 error
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2020-02-21T18:07:02Z

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2020-02-21T18:00:43Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-21 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra |fbContent=need to pick one: Gyü Lama or G..."

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2020-02-20T21:45:55Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-20 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra/English |fbContent=the formatting is off fo..."

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In accordance with their specific characteristics (P76a)
And in due order, the [first] three points of these [seven]
Should be understood from the introduction in the Dhāraṇirājasūtra
And the [latter] four from the distinction of the attributes of the

intelligent and the victors. I.2
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2020-02-20T21:33:01Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-20 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Texts/Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra/Root Verses |fbContent=Please put provide t..."

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|fbContent=Please put provide the translator's name for the English translation of the root verses (and preferably publication information) right up top in an easy to find way. I see that if I click on commentary, ah -- it must be Karl ... but I didn't know that immediately.

Also is there any way you can get the " and ' to be curly on this site?
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2020-02-20T21:30:02Z

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A fundamental component or essential constituent. Skt. धातु Tib. ཁམས་ Ch. 界
Adding dhātu for those who don't read Devanagari (most) but know dhātu, though not necessarily any of the English terms used on this page or in this pop up ... I know you can follow one more link to get dhatu ...
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2020-02-20T21:27:21Z

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रत्नगोत्रविभाग महायानोत्तरतन्त्रशास्त्र
Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།
Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos
究竟一乘寶性論
jiu jing yi cheng bao xing lun
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2020-02-20T20:33:52Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-20 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Primary Sources |fbContent=I notice that the graphic is still being used on those pages, which loo..."

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On a small screen it's really distracting to have that image and on large screen, less so but there's a lot of wasted space to the right.
I'm going to send Marcus 2 screen shots to show what I mean.
It’s distracting and hard to read content that has italics, Chinese, and lightly underlined words with a line circling through it — and next the Maitreya image even blue :) Maybe that blue could be more faded?
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2020-02-20T19:33:33Z

Elizabeth: Created page with "{{Feedback |fbDate=2020-02-20 |fbEmail=ecallahan@tsadra.org |fbPageCommented=Primary Sources |fbContent=I might suggest in addition to "Gyu Lama" in the heading, The Titles..."

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The Titles of the Gyu Lama
using Tibetan, Wylie. It's not very appealing to scholars and Tibetan readers to have just Tibetan phonetics :)

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The Ultimate Continuum (text title), often referred to as the Gyulama in the Tibetan tradition. This is the short title often used for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings, the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ

Here "ultimate continuum" is used but in the main text "superior continuum" is used -- is this intentional? it might be confusing.
And I'm not sure what is being said. The Ultimate Continuum (text title), can't be often referred to as the Gyulama, it is an English translation for rgyud bla ma.

So, is the meaning something like this:

The "Superior Continuum" (Tib. Gyu Lama, rGyud bla ma རྒྱུད་བླ་མ) is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for this key source text of buddha-nature teachings: the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. {need to have Devanagari for Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra}
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