Four kinds of treatise
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In general, there are four kinds of treatise (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི།) :
- a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།);
- a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས། );
- a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས།); and
- a treatise that is composed with a view to practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས།)[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Khenpo Kunpal, The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech, a Detailed Commentary on Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.
Further Reading
For a more elaborate classification see:
- Appendix 2 in Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice, pp. 354-364, The Tsadra Foundation Series, ISBN 10 1-55939-224-X, and:
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9.