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see also in [[The Light of Wisdom]], Vol.1, pg.265-6; (ISBN 9627341371)
[[bsgom lung]] - general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan [JV]
[[The Traditions of the Two Chariots]]


These are the systems of (1) [[Nagarjuna]], and (2) [[Asanga]];
[[bsam gtan]] - dhyana, meditation, deep meditative absorption, absorptions, concentration, meditative (processes, concentration, state), SA [[skye ba'i bsam gtan]], [[rdzogs byed bsam gtan]], [['phen byed bsam gtan]], general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan, level of concentration, meditative equipoise, meditative stability, meditation practice, mental stability [JV]


According to the system of Nagarjuna, the ''Chariot of the Profound View'', [the precepts are to refrain from the following]:
[[bsam gtan gyi mkhan po]] - a teacher of Ch'an, a Ch'an master [RY]
*to steel the funds of the Three Jewels;
*to commit the act of forsaking the Dharma;
*to punish or cause to lose the precepts and so forth, people who possess or have lapsed from the trainings;
*to commit the five acts with immediate result;
*to violate the five definitive precepts for a king, such as keeping wrong views and so forth;
*to violate the five definitive precepts for a minister, such as destroying a village, valley, city, district, or country;
*to give premature teachings on emptiness to people who have not trained in Mahayana;
*to aspire toward the shravakas of the Hinayana after reached the Mahayana;
*to train in the Mahayana after forsaking the Individual Liberation;
*to disparage the Hinayana;
*to praise oneself and disparage others;
*to be highly hypocritical for the sake of honor and gain;
*to let a monk receive punishment and be humiliated;
*to harm others by bribing a king or a minister in order to punish them;
*to give the food of a renunciant meditator to a reciter of scriptures and thus causing obstacles for the cultivation of shamatha.  The eighty subsidiary infractions are to forsake the happiness of another being and so forth.


The Chinese form for 'Zen'.  [RWB]


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bsgom lung - general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan [JV]

bsam gtan - dhyana, meditation, deep meditative absorption, absorptions, concentration, meditative (processes, concentration, state), SA skye ba'i bsam gtan, rdzogs byed bsam gtan, 'phen byed bsam gtan, general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan, level of concentration, meditative equipoise, meditative stability, meditation practice, mental stability [JV]

bsam gtan gyi mkhan po - a teacher of Ch'an, a Ch'an master [RY]

The Chinese form for 'Zen'. [RWB]


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