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padkar1213 Collected Teachings of Omniscient Pema Karpo PK112, Teachings of the Nalanda Abbot..g2.0f

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Confusing constellations with astrology is foolish. In reality, what matters is predicting when auspicious astrological events will occur. For example, in works like G丹巴希 (name), there are prophecies stating that those born under the Rohiti (Rohiti) constellation can live to sixty years. However, there are no such statements for the sun or other constellations. The second question concerns the compilation of scriptures. In texts like 'Thus have I heard,' it is necessary to have personally heard the teachings from the Buddha and then recited them. There is no mention of teachings heard through transmission. When the Four Noble Truths were taught, the Venerable Ananda was only about a month old, and even if he had been ordained, he certainly would not have been among the audience. So, is it not necessary to have a contemporary presence like the Buddha, or can the phrase 'Thus have I heard' also be applied to teachings heard through transmission? No one in the past has raised such a doubt, so I hope you can dispel this uncertainty. The answer to this is found in the Great Commentary on the Eight Thousand Verses: 'There is no fault in this, because the teachings blessed by the Tathagata are what he taught, and what is heard through his power is also heard from the Blessed One. Or, even if heard from others, because he is the foremost in upholding the Dharma, he asks the Blessed One in order to ascertain the meaning.' This is the intention of the scriptures. The third question concerns the biography of the accomplished Khyungpo (Khyungpo); if the water is too clear, fish cannot survive. Please do not misunderstand this as partiality. The fourth question is that statements like 'the five arrows of desire' are only literal meanings and should be understood according to the explanations in works like 'The Immortal Treasury.' The fifth question is that the subsequent tantra of the Kalachakra is a commentary on the intent of the scriptures. The quotation of Nagarjuna (Nagarjuna) therein is not a prophecy but a direct quotation of Nagarjuna's views. At that time, Nagarjuna was about three hundred years old. Jamyang Drakpa (Jamyang Drakpa) composed this work in the same year that he compiled the Abridged Tantra. It is not unreasonable to quote commentary works within the scriptures, as with the Samantabhadra's Prayer for Excellent Conduct and others. This is different from the view in the Great Commentary that 'seeing the treasure of Buddhists,' where 'treasure' does not refer to the views of Vasubandhu (Vasubandhu). Vasubandhu could not have appeared at that time, as there is a clear prophecy that he would appear nine hundred years after the passing of Asanga (Asanga). Yeshe Dorje's (Yeshe Dorje) Kunley Duto has also not completed the era of the White Lotus, because Aryadeva (Aryadeva) and Nagarjuna lived for six hundred years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ་ནང་གི་སློབ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། །དྲི་བ་དྲུག་པ་ལ། སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱུད་ལ་བདེར་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ་ཡོད་པར་བཤད་པས་གཞན་སྟོང་ དུ་འགྲོ་དགོས་པའི་ངེས་པ་མི་སྣང་། བྱམས་མགོན་གྱི་མདོ་རྒྱན་དུ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། །ཁྱད་པར་མེད་ཀྱང་དག་གྱུར་པས། །དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་ཉིད་དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར། །འགྲོ་ཀུན་དེ་ཡི་སྙིང་ པོ་ཅན། །ཞེས་གསུངས་པ་ལྟ་བུར་འདོད་པ་ཡིན། །མར་མི་དྭགས་གསུམ། །ཕག་གྲུ། གླིང་རས། རྒྱ་རས་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལྟ་བ་རབ་ཏུ་མི་གནས་པ་ཡིན། དེ་ལའང་རྒྱུན་རབ་ཏུ་མི་གནས་པ་དང་། ཟུང་འཇུག་རབ་ཏུ་མི་གནས་པ་གཉིས་འབྱེད་པ་མཻ་ཏྲི་པའི་དགོངས་པ། དྲང་ངེས་གར་ཡང་། མ་རིག་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་འདི་ལ་ཟད་མེད་འཕེལ་བ་མེད། ཅེས་པ་ལྟར་ཁས་ལེན་པས། སེམས་ཅན་འདུས་བྱས་ཡིན་པའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གྱིས། 12-526 གསར་སྐྱེས་ཁས་ལེན་ན་ནི་བླངས་པས་ཆོག །དྲི་བ་བདུན་པར། དཀར་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་སྒྲ་བཤད། རྒྱལ་དབང་རྗེས། རྟོགས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པས་དཀར་བ། ཞེས་གསུངས་ཁོ་བོའི་རྗེ་བླ་མ་དེ་ལ་དགྱེས། དེའི་ རྗེས་སུ་འབྲངས་པ་ཡིན། དྲི་བ་བརྒྱད་པ། སྤྲུལ་པ་ལ་སྒྱུ་མ་སྤྲུལ་པ་ལྟ་བུ་རང་གི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གྲུབ་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། སྣང་ཙམ་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་དཔེར་སྨོས་པ་དང་། ལྷ་ཀླུ་ལ་ སོགས་པ་རང་གི་མཚན་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གྲུབ་པའང་ཡོད། མཆོག་གི་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ལྟ་བུ་ལོངས་སྐུ་ལས་བཞེངས་པའི་གཟུགས་སྐུལ་བཞག་པ་དང་། དགའ་ལྡན་གྱི་བྱམས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་སྐྱེ་བ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་ཚུལ་གཟུང་བ་ དང་། ལས་ཉོན་གྱི་སྐྱེ་བ་སྔ་ཕྱི་ལྟ་བུ་ལ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ་ཞེས་པ་བླུན་པོའི་ཆེ་བརྗོད་དུ་གྱུར་པ་སོགས་མང་དུ་སྣང་། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་གཟིགས་ངོར་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་ལས་སྣང་འདི་དག །འདི་ འཆར་འདི་མི་འཆར། ཉིད་ལམ་འབྲས་འཆད་པ་པོ་ཡིན་པས་སྣང་གསུམ་དུ། སངས་རྒྱས་ལ་དར་བ་རབ་འབྱམས། ཞེས་གསུངས་པ་དཀར་རྙིང་གསུམ་འདིར་གྲུབ་མཐའ་གཅིག །ཅེས་སྟོན་པས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་བསྐོར་ བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ལས་ཞག་དྲུག་སོང་བའི་ཚེ་བྲག་བར་སྒར་ནས། གང་གི་དགེ་ལེགས་ནོར་འཛིན་གཞིས། །བདེ་བའི་ལོ་ཏོག་རྣམས་བསྐྱེད་པས། །རྣམ་གྲོལ་འདོད་དགུའི་ཚོགས་ཀུན་གྱིས། །མ་ལུས་སེམས་ཅན་ཚིམ་གྱུར་ཅིག། །།སརྦ་མངྒ་ལཾ། ཆོས་སྦྱིན་རྒྱ་ཆེར་སྤེལ་བའི་ཆེད། །པར་བཞེངས་གླེགས་བུ་རེ་རེ་ལ། །དཔུང་ཀྲང་ཡོན་འགྱེད་མཛད་པོ་ནི། །ཆོས་རྒྱལ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ནོ།། །། 用户的藏文文本翻译成汉语如下: --- **第六个问题**:我是内地的学生。关于第六个问题,有人解释说,因为众生的心续中有如来藏的存在,所以不必必然趋向他空。然而,在《慈氏庄严经》中说:“如是性(真如)于一切中,无有差别,然因清净故,如来性因此而有,一切众生皆具此心。”如是所说,我认为应如此理解。马尔弥达三、帕谷、林惹、迦惹等地的人们,其观点完全不住于常住之中。对此又有不住于常住和不住于融合二者之分,这是弥勒(Maitreya)的意趣所在。而在《抉择分》中也说:“无明所惑之轮回,无尽无增。”据此接受此说,因众生是缘起之故,若接受新生之说,则取舍即可。 **第七个问题**:白教(噶举派)的传承教义中,胜王(噶玛巴)说:“以无垢的觉悟而白。”我尊贵的上师对此感到欢喜,我也随其后追随。 **第八个问题**:化身如同幻化之化身,其自性无有真实成立,仅以显现而存在,如是举例说明。而诸如天龙等,则有其自性成立之存在。如最胜化身,如从报身显现之色身而安住;如极乐世界的慈氏(弥勒),以化身之相受生;以及如前世后世之业障受生等,被称为化身,乃愚者之广大宣说,如此多有显现。在佛陀的智慧观照中,众生之业显现,或现或不现,皆是自性之道果之宣说者。因此,如《三显现》中所说:“佛于无尽广大中显现。”此于白教、宁玛三派中,成立为同一见地。以此教示,转大法轮之时,经过六日,于札巴噶地方, “以何人之福德善业为基础, 生长幸福之花朵, 以圆满一切所愿之众, 令一切众生无余满足。” 愿一切吉祥! 为广弘法布施之故,每一书册印刷,皆由法王索南嘉措出资赞助。 --- 以上是根据藏文内容翻译成自然流畅的汉语,避免了逐字直译的生硬感,同时保留了原文的哲理与宗教意涵。 Here is the English translation of the provided Tibetan text, based on the natural and fluent Chinese translation: --- **Sixth Question**: I am a student from the mainland. Regarding the sixth question, it is explained that because sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature (Tathāgatagarbha) within their mental continuum, it is not necessarily inevitable to incline toward "other-emptiness" (gzhan stong). However, in the *Maitreya’s Ornament of the Scriptures* (*Abhisamayālaṅkāra*), it is stated: "Suchness (tathatā) exists in all things without distinction, yet due to its purity, the nature of the Tathāgata arises therefrom; thus, all sentient beings possess this essence." This is how it is expressed, and I believe it should be understood as such. The views of people in places like Marmidak, Phakgru, Lingre, and Gyare do not abide in permanence at all. Furthermore, there is a distinction between not abiding in permanence and not abiding in the union of the two, which reflects the intention of Maitreya. In the *Definitive Analysis* (*Nītārtha*), it is also said: "The cycle of delusion caused by ignorance is without end or increase." Accepting this, because sentient beings arise from causes and conditions, if one accepts the notion of rebirth, it suffices to adopt it accordingly. **Seventh Question**: In the teachings of the White Tradition (Kagyu lineage), the Victorious King (Karmapa) says: "It is white due to stainless realization." My revered master rejoiced in this, and I follow in his footsteps. **Eighth Question**: Emanation bodies (nirmāṇakāya) are like illusory emanations, lacking establishment by their own characteristics, existing merely as appearances—this is given as an example. However, beings such as gods and nāgas do have an existence established by their own characteristics. For instance, the supreme emanation body, such as the form body (rūpakāya) arising from the enjoyment body (saṃbhogakāya), is established; or like Maitreya in the Tushita heaven, taking birth in the manner of an emanation body; or like births driven by karma and afflictions across past and future lives, referred to as emanation bodies—these are grand proclamations of the ignorant, and many such cases appear. In the Buddha’s enlightened perception, these manifestations of sentient beings’ karma—whether they arise or not—are expounders of the path and fruition of their own nature. Thus, as stated in the *Three Appearances*: "The Buddha manifests in boundless vastness." This is established as a unified view within the White Tradition and the three Nyingma lineages. Through this teaching, during the great occasion of turning the Wheel of Dharma, six days after departing from Drakpa Gar: "Based on the virtuous merit of certain individuals, May the flowers of happiness bloom, And with the assembly fulfilling all desires, May all sentient beings, without exception, be satisfied." May all be auspicious! For the sake of widely spreading the gift of Dharma, each printed booklet was sponsored and supported by the Dharma King Sonam Gyaltsen. --- This translation maintains the philosophical and religious nuance of the original while rendering it into natural and coherent English.

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